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Baily British Whig KINGSTON, ONTARIO, WEDNESDAY, JULY 7, The Seasouw's ing ec el YEAR 98; No. 157. = The New York State and Ontario Power Leaders Are Holding Conferences R Meighen's New Cabinet About Ready; | hos "NF INES SOE | Eon Du Po Sov 1 OPES ORO Co Fon ONFR WIE 3 [TH PREM RK | OF THE PIGHT Bent = mtlorts 7 Pamement. sus OF PROVINCE " taken into the Government from | outside the ranks of those who | have been associated with Mr. | Meighen in the House of Commons. | Names are mentioned as possibili- | Ottawa, July 7.-- Right Hon.; Arthur Meighen has made good pro- gress in the work of forming his Government and 'it is learméd that the task Is almost completed. Unless Montreal; July 7.--~Henri Bour- assa former member of parliament for Labelle, and director of the newspaper Le Devoir of Montreal, says: "Contrary to immemorial usage' His Excellency refused or neglected e Also Contests Wr. Gti' Statement on States. NED PROROGATION Only After All sual Formal ities Had Been Observed. Dttawa, July 7.--In a statement ned yesterday, Right Hon. W. L. kenzie King again takes issue With Premier Arthur Meighen on the constitutional status of the pres- ent Government. The recent state- ment of what he describes as the temporary government" that the Procedure followed at dissolution of Parliament last week was exactly same as that preparéd and pro- 'posed by Mr. King himself when he i ht dissolution four days earlier, 'mot true, says Mr. King. And, he , Af it were true it would not r the fact that it was Mr. 'Meighen's duty himself to advise the ivernor-General, after he had taken © The late King Government, says 'the statement, fully intended that 'there should be dissolution only after Foper prorogation had been made fore both Houses of Parliament gd after all the usual formalities been observed. "Whe recent statement of Hon. Hugh Guthrie, acting Minister of Justice, deals chiefly with the forma- n of the present Government and y little 'with the 'fundamental uestion of the appointment of inisitre of the Crown for the puss | ca , ent an t public departments with recognized con- d law," says = "presumption," says the Premier, for Mr. Meighen to 'to advise the Governor. sl after his adverse vote in the ise of Commons the night before. "unwarranted violation of con- tional right, practice and law, permitted to continme," says Mr. ng, "cannot fail to undermine the ole fabric of constitutional gov- rament in Canada and the funda- "mental principles of Salf-gurarnment r British institutions in what- quarter of the globe they may be held in honor to-day." RA] Pleton, July 7.--A sudden death d on Monday night at the when Mrs. W. A. ne of Toronto was strick- and 'passed away within a few 0 : Mr. Featherstone is a and motored to Pleton on on business, accompanied wife and young son. After at the hotel they went to the When the play wag nearly A , Mrs. Featherstone com- F plained of feeling ill and was assisted te the entrance to get the fresh air. doctor was summoned but she an unexpected hitch occurs, the new Conservative Cabimet will be an- nounced before the end of the pres- ent week. Equally reliable information is to the effect that possible election dates have bBéen natrowed down to within a few days at the middle of September. The date to be finally selected this week very probably will be in the week of September 12th, possibly Thursday, September 16th. No intimation has been forthcom- ing as to what new men may be ties, among them that of Mr. Pate- naude, the Conservative leader in Quebec last year. Certain of those who were in the last and in other Conservative Governments will head the cabinet list, including Sir Henry Drayton, Hon. H. H. Stevens, Hon R. J. Manion, Hon. Hugh Guthrie, Hon. R. B. Bennett, Sir George Per- ley, Hon. 8. F. Tolmie and a few others. W. G. Black)..of Halifax, who is a members of the acting Gov- ernment, may continue in the Cabi- net. A GREAT NAJORTY | FOR J. 1. THOMAS Only 8ix Vote for Dismissal | of British Railway Secretary. Weymouth, July 7.--The Nationa) Union of Railwaymen yesterday. af. | ternoon gave an overwhelnring vote! of confidence . to Rt. Hon. J. H.| Thomas, general secretary of the. union, on his conduct during the re: cent general strike. Only six delegates voted for his dismissal from office as demanded | by Nine branches. The question of what action, if| any, should be taken against the! leader of the railwaymen, was taken up at a secret session of the union yesterday morning. Mr. Thomas not only is political head of the National Union of Rail- waymen, but was the chief negotia- tor for the Trades Union Cofigress with the Baldwin Cabinet in every- thing . pertaining to ' the general strike, including its calling off so dramatically. oe To His attitude toward general strikes was outlined in a speech last Sun day, in which Mr. Thomas answered his crities within the Labor move- meant. At one point he declared: "A general strike by the very nature of | things must fail. It is doomed to failure from the moment it is de-| clared, because it is a brutal attempt to punish the innocent as well as the guilty." SENDS U.S. PRESIDENT SARCASTIC MESSAGE Indian Communist M.P. Pokes Fun at Country's Boast of Freedom. Londen, July 7.----~S8hapurjt Saklat- vala, the Indian Communist Member of Parliament, who recently was bar- red from the United States by the State Department has addressed the following message to President Coo- lidge: 'Congratulations on 150 years of National Freedom and social pro- gress. Your Nation must feel thank- ful that no. Kelloggs, with emigra- tion acts were then in existence to ban George Washington, and other revolutionary spirits from entering: the country." Saklatvala was barred from enter- ing the United States, to attend the Inter-Parliamentary Union Confer. ence last year. Frank 8. Kellogg, Secretary of State, denied him ad- Elms and Manchester | i P2249 920922294 * # LARGE DEER SMASHES INTO STORE WINDOWS New Glasgow, N.S, July 7.-- ® A large buck deer wandered # into this town yesterday and # ran amuck through the streets, % causing considerable damage. A + furniture store and a barber # shop both had large plate glass ¢ windows smashed by the ani- # mal. Crashing through the front window of the barber shop, the buck dashed across the floor, making his axit by the back door. - The deer was # badly cut and. left a trail of # blood as he fled. He swam the # East river and disappeared in the woods. * +» * + * * * * * PPADS 30420203009 MOTORIST MURDERED. Shot From Behind While Rriving Car at Night. Niagara. Falls, N.Y. July 7.-- Frank Raporto, thirty-two years old, was shot dead last Monday night while driving ~ his automobile, A bullet entered the back of his head iand passed out his forehead, going windshield of his "6f his car. machine ran a short distance and then swerved against a telephone pole and upset in a ditch. Police believed that Raporto was shot by someone who rode im the back seat of the ma. The seat beside the driver rned for- ward to allow some 0 step out. Police were told that a man ran through a field near where the shoot- ing occurred just after the shots were heard. THE DEAN OF QUEBEC SUCCEEDS DR. SEAGER As Provost of Trinity College, Toronto--Was a Rhodes Scholar. Quebec, July 7.--The Very Rev. Louis Ralph Sherman, M.A.,, D.D.; Dean of Quebec since 1924, has been appointed Provost of Trinity College, Toronto, according to news received here last evening. When informed of his appointment, and asked whether hq would accept, the Dean stated that he was not yet ready to make any statement, 4s he had -vecéived no ; official notification of his appoint- ment. Dr. Shermapy was for many years rector of theliChurch of the Holy Trinity, Toronto, and while still a young man, is widely known as an extremely able and scholarly church- man. He was & Rhodes and {01 took his M.A. at Oxford, having pre- viously attended the University of Bishop's. College, Lennoxville, The Inte Provost, Dr. C: A. (Incongrous Situation If He Re- | turns to Tory Fold. HS WARTIME IDEAS } ------ | Contrary to the Conditions That | Have Arisen by Meighen's | Rise to Power Now. Winnipeg, Man., July 7.--' Under the heading Sir Robert Borden to re- j enter politics, the Free Press says + editorially: "Many Canadians will regret the {return of Bir Robert to the turmoil of | political life after the part which he | | played during the war as prime min- {ister durnig the whole of that 0+ | mentous period. His health he. 'ously impaired by the heavy respon- sibilities of that time, and by Cana- | dians in general he has been held in high regard. But no one would ex- ! pect that feeling to remain the same |1f he is induced to actively identity { himself with the . Conservative party' {again in order to ald Mr. Meighen in {a difficult election contest. It is | tairly safe to say that niost Canadians | would have preferred that the last career should have been his service as Canada's war premier and in such capacities as that which he filled as our chief representative at the fram- ing of the Peace of Versailles and at the disarmament conference at Wash- ington. "Moreover, is there not something very incongruous about Sir Robert joining Mr. Meighen just now? Rbberts { ten fons dur- ing the war is still well remembered. But the present election centres about the question whether the right of a Canadian prime minister to & dissolu- tion shall depend on the old rule as it applies to the colonies or on the rule as it obtains in Great Britain, "After the declaration by British Statesmen during the war of the equality of status of the dominions and Great Britain, Sir Robert was always careful to secure the observ- ance of that principle. 'It was 'not observed, however, in the ecircum- stances which precipitated the eleec- tion now pending. It was as a result of the denial of the principle of equality in respect to the right of dissolution and the applying to Can- ada of the old colonial rule, that Mr. Meighen became prime minister. How, then, can Sir Robert accept a place in a government which has no right-to exist unless we throw over- board the principle for which he fought on various oecasions during and after the war?" = Killed by Wheel of Auto. Syracuse July 7.-~Mrs. Simon Bul- son, of Willlamstown, was struck by 'tomobile, dying In a local hospital early yesterday morning. Mrs. Bulson was in front of her barn at Williams- town, when the wheel, belleved to have wormed free from the axle after a nut had loosened spun into the yard, knocked her off her feet and Ym- F. Horsley, of Utica, was the of the car, , ' s dwn remembrance of Sir Robert's public a wheel thrown from a passing au-| bedded itself in the lawn. Charles: featured on the front page of this Journal last evening an article un der his own signature, dealing with the present political sijuation, Cap- tioned "Le Coup D' Etat" the article reviews the circumtsances leading up to the dissolution of Parliamen: and weighs the pros and cons of the matter. Mr. Bourassa finds that, un- less Canada's constitutional evolu- tion does not follow the same course as in England, the Governor-Gen- eral was not justified in denying dis- solution to former Premier King Mr. Bourassa declares that the factor 'that has been lost sight of was an offer made to the Governor- General by Mr. King to continue his duties as premier pending His Ex- cellency's verification of whether Mr. King or Mr. Meighen could com- TEXTE RES 2A 2 2 8 + + DROWNED SAVING HIS FRIEND'S WIFE Seattle, Wash., July + Samuel! L. Price, Jr., a Can- + adian civil engineer, whose par- 4 ents are said to reside in Van- # couver, B.C., was drowned in # the waters of Lake Union here % Mofiday, when he made a # Meroic attempt tg Tedsue the wife of his fend, Fred # Green, when their small boat # capsized. Price, ynable to swim, # manager to keep Mrs. Green & afldat until rescue of the wo- # 'man was effected. The bod$ + was recovered. * COPE HBS PISPLIENY * | +» " IE * $ * + * * + + + + * + + + + * * * * < * > London, July 7.--~The Daily Mail says almost the complete stoppage of the Lancashire cot- ton mills is expected within a few days, owing to the lack of coal suplies. Very few firms have another week's supply, and there is little likelihood of their getting more, owing to the miners' strike. Andrews Goes to Fnglnad. 'Washington, D.C., July 7.-- Gen- eral Lincoln C. Andrews, assistant secretary of the Treasury, and chief of the prohibition enforcement ser- vice, promis¥d his superior yester- day he would stick to his post until he has finished re-organization of the dry forces. General Andrews will sail from New York to-day for London as the head of a mission to confer with British officials on closer co-opera- tion in enforcement of antl-smugglifng treaties. - _Given Prison Terms. : Brockville, July 7.--George Wil liamson, a man seventy-four years of age, was senténced to nine months in the Ontario reformatory, dating fromt he time of his committal, on a serious offence. John Hoy, Pres- cott, for a similar offence, was sentenced to three months In the mer same institution and a further inde- jterminate sentence of three months. to profit by the offer of his advisers in office. He got rid of the min- istry without assuring himself of the possibility of having another pos- sessing the confidence of the House." Mr. Bourassa asks if Lord Byng was "a victim of Mr. Meighen's snares." "The former member for Labelle says that, following the defeat of the new Government, there was one con- stitutional means of emerging from the impasse, and that was to recall Mr. King to office for the sole pur- pose of terminating the session. "In default of this correct gesture, there remained to His Excellency the re- sort of prforoguing Parliament with a semblance of decorum, after hav- ing sanctioned laws and subsidies voted unanimously by the two Houses and by all parties. LORD CLARENDON IS COMING 10 CANADA Expected to Deal With Imper- lal Relations Which Have Recently Arisen. London, ®uly 7.--Lord Clarendon is sailing for Canada Saturday on board the Empress of Scotland on an important official mission. He will be accompanied by his wife. What the exact nature of the mis- sion will be is something of a my- stery, although ostensibly Lord Clarendon will be engaged in im- portant Overseas settlement work. It is generally believed, however, that his mission will deal with other more important .problems which have recently arisen in the relations between the Mother Country and the : val it. d a an 8 clans recently without "any specific -in- structions from Col. Amery and has merely made a report of his actions to the Secretary for Overseas Af. fairs. Lord Clarendon, before going to the House of Lords, and while known as Lord Hyde, spent several years with his 'wife, har brother, Lord Somers, and his children farming. in Canada, = at Pickering. about 20 miles from Toronto. Their stay In Canada was brought to a close by the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, which caused Lord Hyde and Lord Somers to hasten home to rejoin their respective regi- ments for service at the front fin France. THE LIBERAL PARTY SIN FI FETTLE For the Federal Cempaign-- Conservatives Cannot Ime .._. prove Their Position. * Toronto, July 7.--'"Theére is not a single province in 'the dominion where the Conservatives can hope to improve their position," said Mr. Duncan Marshall, Liberal organizer, discussing the outlook. "Whereas we shall undoubtedly improve ours in almost every province. The Com- servatives reached their peak at {he New York State Power Commis- sion Members Visit Toronto A PROGRESS IS NADE. With Regard to Negotiations te 3 Sood to gota Lawrence River. Toronto, July 7.--~Representatives of the New York State Power Com- mission to-day were in conference with representatives of Ontario at the parliament buildings here off the question of developing, power on { the St. Lawrence river, and it is an: nounced that definite progress Was made in the negotiations. The con- terence will be, renewed here om Friday, and in the meantime the New York State Commission will visit Niagara Falls to look into the question of power development of the lower Niagara Gorge. Premier Ferguson and the chair man of the Ontario Hydro Power Commission wera among those who met the New Yurk commission to- day. The New York state repre. sentatives came to Toronto mainly to obtain the view of the Outario au- thorities in regard to the 'granting of licenses to private American cor porations to devalop power on the St. Lawrence. Several applications from private corporations are Bow before the New York commission. Schemes under consideration call be development of 2,400,000 Follogig the conference, Premiet Fergusod made a statement in par as follows: ' "We are desirous of developing the St. Lawrence to the greatest ad- vantage to both parties. Po "Discussions here have demon- strated the determination on the part of both state and province {ig reach a common ground as to - thi method of development. Ta "It has been arranged that state engineers and our engineers confer and become fairly conversant with each other's views, and later we will have a further conference." ~ "New York state engineer Roy G Finch said: "We feel that the deliber- ations of the two bodies are to lead to an agreement by whicl the development of the St. Lawrenew river will be carried out to the bene« fit of both province and stage." Sem Supply Avaliable by Warrant of Rov - Ottawa, July 7.--Supply for administration expenditures other "necessities" will be made available by way of Gove : eral's warrant without entailing fn- convenience to the recipients. This was the intimation made In Gow tent circles this morning. Rains Drown 30 Persons. Tokio, July 7.--Heavy rains Western Japan have drowned th in