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the legisla w by week friday feb1stii survey and three highways had been ballot dclosures the mf j tho h to i tho necessary ft5to2 only too glad to go to begin investigation ol the 19 bal- bots picked up on the street ia ot- tawa last october as related in the house by w e n sinclair liberal loader they exhibited a strong de sire to call tho individual who found the stray papers but mr sinclair would rot reveal his name- he pre ferred a scrutiny of ballots now in possession of the clerk of the crown to see if the correct total is there monday feb 20th bill no 88 which entered the le gislature at so in the afternoon be came an act in exactly one hour and v received the royal assent five min utes later undoubtedly a speed rec ord for the assembly introduced by attorneygeneral price the bill amends the election act legalizing scrutiny of the ballots cast in south ottawa on december 1 1926 as re quested by w e n sinclair liberal leader in received first and second reading was passed by sections in committee of the whole and wa3 read a third time within tho hour the lieutenantgovernor coming down by request of the premier gave assent almost immediately so that the privi- leges and elections committee may open the ballot boxe3 if so decided this ard tho debate pertaining thereto filled in the day tuesday feb 21st tho order in which tho speakers took the floor in the legislature de bate was e- blake miller liberal east elgin f g sandy progressive south victoria t l kennedy con servative peel g a mcquibban wellington nortlveast christopher gardiner progressive east kent and leopold macnulay conservative south york altogether it was a drag ging day mr macauiay when he suggested that the government look into the washington tfcafe just what im trying to do wa3 the reply hon w h price to speak tho other speaker in the debate f e oliver ufo grey south de clared that tho government had a great duty to fulfill to the farmers in encouraging cooperative marketing ho did not agree that the main factor ir ijarming was greater production but the problem of getting a market and challenged the department to in duce its representatives to forget their lukowarmness the debate was adjourned on behalf of hon w h price who was absent on tho sick list by hon john s martin the speech of tho attorney- genotfal is awaited with interest and is expected to comprise the first authoritative review of the operations of government control in its initial year thursday feb 23rd with hon j r cooke minister without portfolio using the govern ments strap on regulation 17 with charles g fletcher young libeilal member for south essex assailing the governments attitude toward weekly newspapers with an ota complex ion and with w g medd prog south huron advocating no liquor permits for holders of motordriving licenses the debate in the legislature was advanced three more paces crowded galleries assembled to hear hon w h price on the liquor con trol act it3 administration and its enforcement but he was still indis posed so mr cook spoke mr fletcher criticized w g mar tin conservative clergymanmember from brantford for slighting refer ences to premier king and hon vin cent massey canadian minister at bollinger mine rubbish fuel for bonfire miners want t b roberts as spokesman at enquiry while a big bonfire rages near the hollinger mine destroying large quantities of waste and inaaunnablo material removed from tho stopes of the mine as shown above interest in timmlns centres on who will bo chosen to represent the miners at the enquiry into tho disaster to be hold by mr justice godson tho miners leaders strongly favor t b roberts insert and the union will be asked to ratify their choice nearly a million new canadians in six- year period majority from mother land and the united states a splendid record ottawa answering questions la tho house of fommoas it was shown that from 1921 to 1927 there wor 78740s immigrants arrived in canada from groat britain tho continent of europe and the united states oi these 361s34 came from the united kingdom 249521 from tho continent and 17g053 from south of the inter- natlonsl bouulary the cast to tho country for bringing in those immi grants was 72049s0 of which over go per cent was spent in connection with british immigration heaviest in 19021921 tho figures discloso that tho banner year in lmmigratloa from tho old country was that wiich closed on march 31 1921 when 71202 newcom ers camo to canada in the fiscal yoar ended march 1927 tho number of foreigners coming into this coun try from european continental parts was 71073 a figure that exceeded by 370 the combined totals of british and american immigration during that period from canadian fliers not yet located question of providing assurance of compensation to victinis ofo negligent motorists merchants robbed a new angie of fire upon the ad ministration ard enforcement of the liquor control act was introduced by mr gardiner who charged that gov ernment sale during the last christ mas season had robbed merchants in small cities and towns of extensive trade which otherwise would have rnsred their way the chatham store praises services of massey down in my section of the pro vince which is close to tho border said mr fletcher i believe that there is unanimity of opinion that it is highly desirable that canada should have official representation in the un ited states during the course of the rasfc summer when changes in the united states immigration regula tions threatened to throw out of em ployment thousands of citizens who live in the border towns and work in the united states the services of mr he alleged sold 50000 worth of viheent massey contributed muehte- hquor during the holiday- at least j vard straightening out that situation in a satisfactory way mr fletcher advocated the lowering of the license fee on a ford runabout s10oc0 of tiiis amount would have been spent under normal ireum- stances in the stores mr miller as expected took the jsig 9 when he said a government sharply to task on the farmec piaee3 a box on a ford early closing of lake erie commercial that dar no harder on tho ioada fishing dr mcquibban tangled with hn dr forbes godfrey min ister of health as he did last session over the question of free distribu tion of insulin mr sandy deprecated tse wide gap between costs of hydro electric power to urban and rural residents and col kennedy extolled the wisdom of tho government in se curing adequate representation on the british markets and thereby se curing better prices there for ontario peaches than in ontario itrelf ballot battle in the special privileges ard elec tion committee- honw k sinclair stcod entrenched against the govern ment cohorts under hon chas- mae- rca and refused to produce his 19 wandering ballots until tho govern ment had counted the ottawa baliot3 as permitted in the act above liberal leader wm e n sinclair tohl the house that the committee will rot make a fool out of me and prepared to sit in until every ballot is counted unless im sent down to jail for refusal to give evidence wednesday feb 22nd the liberal and progressive groups divided tho honors when tho debate was resumed on consideration of tho speech from the throne in spite of this fact however the administration pf the conservatives camo in for a pleasure of praise from william new- pan liberal north victoria who declared that he was not going to tako n back scat to anyone in supporting b government which would get the best out of the province he believed that ihe liquor control act had in jrome respects been beneficial though in his opinion intemperance was pre senting a grave danger today to the entire dominion mr newman condemned the exten sion of the deer season to so days which ho said was creating more slaughter and less fun he also sug gested increasing the wolf bounty of 15 this sum was not sufficient to attrrct the attention of the trappers and the wolves were exterminating deer t roadbuilding criticized he wanted to thank the govern ment tho speaker continued for tho gtants which had beer given to his constituency for road construction but declared that 55 per cent of the money had been wastod 3ince it had gone into repairs which had boon washed away by tho rains ho believ ed also that further extensions of pro vincial highways in tho muskoka dis- trit should be mado t oconncct it with other rarts of the province hon mr finlayson drew the rrcm- iicrs attention to tho fact that the government ha i already arranged tho than a touring car which pays the 9 fee mr fletcher charged that the party patronage system had crept not only into liquor control act appointments but- into government advertising many weekly newspapers tho past year had he said been cut off the governments advertising list he quoted from the essex free press to tho effect that newspapers which hadsupported the ota in tho last election had been blacklisted ridiculous situation tho weekly press submitted mr fiotcher is not political and there fore should not be subject to tho pat ronage system it seems to be to be a ridiculous situation that when for example a sheriff wishes to advertise a salo in a certain community he is not permitted to make use of the local press but following instructions from tho government advertises in a paper which is perhaps 20 or 30 miles distant from where the sale is to be hold mr fletcher referred to strong man hannas administration of tho liquor law picturing him with the monotony of a samson in tho prison house grinding corn mr hannaa responsibility of office was not heavy declared mr fletcher he had only one class of commodity to handle he had no to concern himself with adver tising his wares were not perishablo and he did not have to find a market for his goods and yet he drew 20- 000 a year for filling a job which in tho south essex members opinion would not bear comparison as far as the importance of his executive func tion was concerned with the execu tive demands required by the success ful operation of a corner grocery store hudson straits expedition fails to fnd lewis and party ottawa wireless brings no news from hudson straits of flying officer lewis and his two companions who have been missing since friday ah available forces from the three bases established on the straits havo been concentrated on the hunt the de partment of marine and fisheries hops that flyers are still safe formerly at vancouver vancouver bc fllghtsergt n c terry one of the airmen missing from the canadian governments hud son straits expedition at port bur- well had been on the strength of tho jericho air station hero since 1924 he is about 29 years of age and came to anada after the war in which he served as a noncommissioned officer in a british squadron of the royal air force in the spring of last tyear sergt terry was sent to camp bor den for a special course of instruction 1 ntho new typo of fokker machlno in use there sergt terr is single and has no relatives in this couutry it is be lieved empire legislators to meet in canada another war film v is withdraw submarine movie mare nos trum offended some sensibilities london on top of the british film censors banning of the edith cavell film dawn comes the announce ment that the metrogoldwynmayor corporation has withdrawn the old war submarine picture mare nos trum this was made by samuel eckman jr general european man ager of the corporation he how ever denied rumors that the four horsemen of the apocalypse was al so withdrawn saying it i3 gradually dying of its own accord ho also denied tho scrapping of mare nostrum as the result of dip lomatic pressure it 13 a fact how ever that for over a year the ger man foreign office has been privately and informally working to have boh films withdrawn parliamentary association delegates reach que- bee august 25 ottawa the emplro parliamentary association meets in canada this year tho delegates aro due to ar rive at quebec august 25 about 50 members of the association havo been invited and representatives are expected from great britain aus tralia now zealand newfoundland south africa india malta rhodesia and tho irish free state tho com mittee intend revising the itinerary to permit of visits of the vstors to fort wlliam the eastern townships a timbercart came into collision and tho okanagan valley tho itin- with a taxlcab two loads of wood erary proposed covers a period from roared the taxidriver at tho carter august 20 to septemher 30 and one in yer cart an one under yer takes in main points across canada blinkln at england envies canadas budget london paper implies do minions example of economy worth following london when nn englishman reads the canadian budget which providos for a reduction in taxation of nearly 4000000 including a 10 per cent cut in tho income tax he smiles as ono says on tho wrong side of his face commontts the evenlug standard not that he grudges canadian their good fortune the standard continues though ho may perhaps onvy them their finance minister but because he sees here a prlnclplo practiced in every country but his own this principle is simp ly that public expenditure is to be kopt within the strictest limits the countrys needs allow o bill to fix date of easter new idea to establish a fixed easter date gets second reading at london ah nations must cooperate london tho house of commons debated a bill for fixing the dato of easter as tho first sunday oftor the second saturday in april or betweon april 9 and 10 thl3 question which has been the subject of controversy sinco tho earliest days of christianity was referred this year by the council of the league of nations to all mem bers opponents declared that if tho bill was passed it might result in two easters ono religious and tho other secular since roman catholics and anglicans might rofuso to depart from tho traditional way of fixing the datet under tho bill which reached a second reading the dato would not bo changed till other european gov ernments also agreed to chaugo it great united britain europe states 19201921 74263 20s03 43059 19211922 39020 13470 29245 19221928 31508 13184 22007 19231924 72919 41159 20521 19241925 53178 39343 15848 1925192g 37569 3ss73 18778 19261927 5037s 71073 21025 reds endanger chances of labor immigration costs the costs for bringing these new settlers were from great b4an 375184269 from europe 332308- 90 from tee united states 3101- 07479 since 1923 the year in which tho system of assisted passages was adop ted to dec 31 1927 there were 61- 267 new settlers brought in divid ed into years the figures with total annual costs were 19231924 3720 02229 19211925 8226 121377 19251926 s403 180026 19261927 20247 4s84ss 1927 9 mos 20g20 gs2414 combing hudson straits nerves in cancer is new discovery important development in research reported from montreal montreal an important stop for ward in cancer research has been mado by the mcoill pathological in- stltute and tho royal victoria hos pital it was announced at mcglll uni versity dr horst oertel strathcona professor of pathology and director of tho jfjcglh pathological institute glvos details of tho now contribution in an illustrated article in tho current issue of the canadian medical jour nal ho establishes tho extraordinary fact of tho presence of nerves in human cancer and other malignant tumors ordered to contest all eng lish seats where lead ers are running london tho british communist party has received orders from the third internationale in moscow to fight all seats for which leaders of tho labor party and trades union coun cil aro standing in the next election if carried out these orders might lose labor seats to liberals or conserva tives tho communists in groat britain had docided to fight only such scats as were so overwhelmingly prole tarian that a split vote would not let a capitalist candidate in but tho daily herald organ of tho labor party says the communists will obey moscow whose orders will override any decision of tho british party the herald adds however that the communist vote is too small to affect an euglish election it was impossible to state the num ber of immigrants who after having declared their occupation as agricul turists and their intention of engag ing in farming ihad engaged or con tinued to engage in agricultural pur suits orientals admitted in the year 1927 there vvero 94 chinese admitted to canada under permit and of these 40 entered as actors and actresses four were mis- cionarie3 and three were teachers thirtyfive of the 94 had already left the country in the same year 493 japanese en tered canada distributed in 118 adult males 277 adult females and 98 chil dren the laboring class accounted for 151 of both sexes while farmers totalled 118 both sexes hitandrun driver i discussed in ottawa buried as he lived simple ceremonies in vil lage church preliminary funeral sutton courtenay eng under a quiet starlit sky the body of the late lord oxford and asquith was borne through the single street of the dimly- lighted village between rows of quaint halftimbered tudor cottages to all saints church where it wa3 placed on a catafalque in the nave to await the burial the remains of one of britains great war leaders were placed in an english oak coffin on a simplo wheeled bier and preceded by tho professional crucifix and white- robed choir boys on the impressive journey to tho church the countess of oxford and other members of the family followed the only averted through the alertness increased penalties suggested by quebec safety league ottawa drastic penalties for ths motorist who causes an accident and then fails to stop to permit investi gation or render assistance were pro posed to the minister of justice hon ernost lapointe by tho province of quebec safety leaguo a gaboury secretarygeneral of the league pres ented to mr lapointe copies of re solutions passed by tho leaguo at their mooting in montreal recently one of them asked that tho criminal code be amended so that a person causing an accident and failing to stop bo subject to a lino of 1000 or 12 months in jail or both in tho dis cretion of tho presiding judge at present according to tho resolution tho penalty is s50 fine and 30 days in jail another resolution passed by the league and presented by mr gaboury asks that tho code bo amended so as to impose a lino of 500 or imprison ment not exceeding 12 months or both at the discretion of the presiding judge to anyone found guilty of hav ing shouted llro in a curcb theatre public building or- any other placo when there is no apparent cause and when it is liable to cause a panic this resolution it was explained wa3 based on information that an other panic in a montreal theatre was search for missing airmen is continued three airplanes and several parties using dog toanvi arc frantically search ing the barron wastes of labrador and baffin land in the hope of finding flying officer a lewis flight sergt tcrryand an eskimo who formed tlio crew of the canadian air force survey plane which has beta misilng siicc i lastrriday the filers left fort burwcll about 11 m that ay aul several is that the fond mother hourr later sent a wireless message they were being forced down because of pressed her offspring to her breast shortage of fuel it is said they have cnougi food to stave off starvation for so fervently that every rib in the llt- at least three weeks and every tope is held out for their rescue tie ouos body was broken bior on foot a short funeral service was held in the church aftojr which hundreds of sorrowing villagors feel ing keen personal loss in the death of their great neighbor passed before the coffin the interior of the church was lovely with clustered wreaths iy hugged to death berlin tho only orangoutang ever born in captivity has becomo the victim of a mothers too groat love tho rare baby which was ushered into tho world five weeks ago at tho local zoo was found dead in its cago with its chest crushed the only ex- of tte manager who was ablo to quiet his audience after some ono had shouted fire o thirsty berliners rejoice with heated beer garden berlin a heated beer garden is the latest development in tho restaurant business of berlin out in tho gruno- wald tho forest skirting the west- cm end of tho capital uncle toms cabin is a favorite stopping place for tired hikers it has a beautiful gar den in which the guests prefer to sit as long as weather will permit tho proprietor determined to mako his garden as comfortable in winter as it is in summer has installed iron bas kcts filled with hot coals bccn tho tables