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PRoiTNcIAL s01. ONS

NOTINAGREEMENT i T0 BE LOYAL

Government Members Divided On Prohibition Amendment. Premier

Pleads For

“Decent”

Citizens

JVllo Drink Illegally But Do Not ,G'et Drunk. Hon. Dr. Grant Dubs Section “Dangerous ”But.S'uppm-t3 It. Hon. Mr. McIntyre Sits Pat il/Vlwn Colleagues Vote. Opposit. ion Appeals Vainly To Reason.

[Y The moat remarkable amendment lo the Prohibition Act, and the one which provoked the most discussion in committee during the passing oi the amen&lflia in the Legislature last week was the following:

"liflb. If any witness shall give evidence under oath of having seen any person In a state oi intoxica- tion in any oi the public places

mentioned in Section 139 of this

Act, such testimony shall be pi-ima facic evidence that such person on -the day onwhich he- as so seen

was guilty of an off ce against

Section iila of this Act.’ ‘

No preliminary explanation of this amendment was oflered by the pro- shoter (Premier Saunders).

Dr. W. J. MaoMillan: Mr. Chair- man, I think any reasonable person would take objection ‘w this section. z_ do not lmow where it irgoing to land us. A wiiirlese gives evidence that he saw someone intoxicated on a cer- isin day: the evidence of that man is taken and the man whom he com- plains about is convicted. Do you think there is any sound law in “M? ‘I can go into Court and swear I saw my hon. friend drunk last nlsht. and he is convicted on that?

hunter laundarai This is prima llcle evidence. I-le has got the right to defend his case.

Dr. MacMlllan: And if somebody swears that he was drunk?

Premier Saunders: Then it would b0 up to the Magistrate to decide who was telling the truth.

Dr. Macbflliaac Do you think you have any right to put a law like that on thc statute books, that one wit- ness can swear to a matter of this kind and his evidence is taken‘)

Premier Saunders: It does not say that. It goes no further than the Ffililnipflon. which may always be rebuthd by the evidence oi the man hineslf or someone else on his be- half.

Dr. MacMillani Will you tell me 5°" You can swear to a state of in- higcatiosi. m. Premier? can you define "intoxication"?

Premier Saunders: well, l am not 0H3‘ to.

Dr. Mullillan: Let me ask the -- “tor of Prohibition. (Laughter). ' N95091:! the senior member from Bililihireido can answer it. Will'

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either of them attempt to define "in- ioirlcation.“

Neither of the members referred to (Hon. Mr. LePage and Hon. Dr. lvfcNeill) offered any reply.

The Premiers Explanation

Premier Saunders: There is some merit in what you say, but still, you take a man who takes a teddy of rum and has it illegally in his possession. He may get clear, but the man who takes that teddy gets drunk; there is evidence of what he la doing, and it is up to him to make an explanation. He is not supposed to be drinking it to get drunk. and if he buys it as a medicine and abuses it and he is in that state, he is violating the law and should b: fined. He is supposed. if he is carrying out the provisions of the Prohibition Act, to only purchase liquor for medicinal purposes and not to get in-a state of intoxication and wander here and there in that condition. As I said before, if some one should say: "I saw ‘this pcreon staggering around drunk." it is up to the man himself if he wiasnt. This section puts that presumption. that this man is guilty of an offence. The man himself can say that he was clown the street and didn't have a drink at all. If he says that and the Magistrate has no rcaecn to diabo- licvo him he will be acquitted.

Open To Abuse

Mr. Stewart: I think it is very un- fair, and it will lead to a great deal oi confusion. The question is. what are the evidences oi intoxication? I will give a practical instance. I re- member of seeing an elderly man in the city quite frequently. and I got tho imprcssion—and I nm not at all

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Toronto Firm Donates Shoes

(Special to The Guardian)

TORONTO. April 20—The Globe has received from H. and C. Bloch- ford, Limited. 266 Youugc Street. T0- ronto. a donation of 450 pairs of wo- men's shoes of all sizes as a “little comfort“ for the women “who no doubt have suffered equally W!!!" m9 men" in ihe distressed British min- ing areas. Tldings of this generous gift were communicated by cable to the lard Mayor of London, who replied that the shoes would be "gratefully ac- cepted." The Globe has effected Ir- rangemcnts under which. by rel-WI of anonymous largeheariednesg the consignment will be ccnvcytd Mind delivered at Iodon free of all trans- portation charges.

Notice To Lobster Fishermen

The regular lobster season for the province of Prince lldwafd Island

. Qpgm on thl morning Of April Nth.

Fishermen are not t0 leave thl 011°" 1m- in. fishing grounds before ll: a- m, on that mornlnl- pm.» he guided accordlnlly. i e. '1‘. GALLART. Inspector of Fisheries

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(Canadian Press) — OTTAWA, April 20.—It is the duty I-evcry Canadian woman to think

rationally rather than scctioually

.:d to give the utmost in service and

yclty in Canada, Hon. R. B. Ben-

..t, Conservative lender, declared in

.1 address at the annual meeting

2t night of the Ottawa Woman's

cnservative Assn.

‘l am confident," Mr. Bennett said. ‘that the next election which I think will take place in less than l5 months will find you ready to strike a. decis- ive blow for thc development of ‘Canada. to give economic opportun- ity to its citizens and to keep its young men at home.

iimsii iiiiiiiiii iiis iii PARIS

(Canadian Press)

PARIS, April Ill-Broken and tired by the failure of the reparation con- fcrcnca to arrive at a satisfactory settlement, Lord Ricvclstoke, distin- guiehc! British banker, died in his apartment at 7.30 a. m., today. Heart failure was given as the cause. His brother, the Honorable Cecil Baring. was at his side when the end came.

The plenary session of the repara- tions eltperts committee which wcsto hear his report this morning on thc breakdown of the conference negotia- tions convened and immediately ad- journed. Intimates said the famous Britisher who shared with Sir Josiah Stamp the leadership of the British delegation. had been under an in- tense strain throughout yesterday's

‘ of his subcommi At this session the German delegation rs- iused a compromise with the allies. ntaklng immediate its adjournment and failure. Last night he complained of being tired.

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The Late Capt. ‘Edward Palmer

The Guardian regrets to chronicle the death of Captain Edward Pal- mer, of this city, a son of the late Chief JusticePalmer, who passed away yesterday momlng at his resi- dence, 222 Queen Street.

The late Edward Palmer was born Jan. 1st, 1853, receiving his early education at home and at Prince of Wales College. After a few years 1n business in Charlottetown. a profes- sional military life appealed to him and he went to Quebec to take a, commission in the Artillery. Upon} completion of his ofilcers‘ training} course he became a Lieutenant in the] Canadian Garrison Artillery and for some years remained on duty with that unit at the Citadel in Quebec. Subsequently he recs transferred to thc station in Victoria, B. C. as Quartermaster. with the rank of Cap- tain.

Capt. Palmer while in garrison at Victoria. made many friends and

appointed secretary of the Union Club there, a position which he flllzd with oflciency for a number of years until 1904, when he returned to Chur- lotietown and entered the law oihce oi his brother, Mr. I-l. J. Palmer, K. C., aa a book-keeper.

For the past fifteen years Capt. Palmer has been living in partial re. tirement, although ably filling the role of private secretary to former Ooverncrslogcrs and Murdock Mac- Kinnon. '

The surviving relatives are one brothiir, Mr. H. J. Palmer, K. 0., two sisters. Mrs. Leonard Hartley, City. with whom the deceased had been living, and Miss Princes Palmer, at present residing at Athens, Greece. The uncrai, which will be privatc, takes plus on Tuesday to Sherwood Cemetery.

roaomo, Ont, sci-u Ila-Jr w. mucky-aims oi the a» lisaalactartag densely. was

when failing eyesight compelled him‘ .to abandon a military career he wcs'

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APPOINTMENT CA USES COMMENT .

‘ Considerable comment has been caused in Newfoundland by the ap- pointments made by Premier Slr Richard Squires to the special un- employment nnd poor relief com- mission. Two of the three members, Rt. Hon. Sir William Lloyd, regis- trar of the supreme court, and Sir

Patrick McGrath. president oi the

legislative

The other member is Charles Hut- chlngr. K.C., inspector-general of the Newfoundland constabnlary. Pointing

out the unwrmm °f "It wmlhli-lSqnlru; and (a) Slr ivllllam Lloyd.

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|sion,-Slr Richard rmlled to his

council, arc Iiggressivt ' critics by stating that it should be: ‘ political opponents o! the premier. non-partisan and composed oi thei a,

most competent commissioners nvall- 1 able. Here are shown: (l) Slr Pa‘.- ,X'|i‘-k RIOGIRNI: (2) Hon. Sir Rlrhnril ‘

Two U. S. Coast- Guards. Arrested

(Special to rm Guardian)

NIAGARA FALLS,-Ont., April 20 —-Two United States coustguarrls were arrested early today at Bridge- burg arid their boat. at one time a Canadian craft engaged in rum run- ning, was seizcd. The guard were Ilieut. Hubert Wilbur and Guards- man Orval, both of the Buffalo port. The men were taken and later re- turned in custody of the American coastguard authorities and were iakcn back by Boaiswain P. H. Forner. The boat placed under seizure by Can- adian customs preventative officers and together with a machine gun and small arms found in the possession o! the two men was confiscated. The coastguards were in Canadian waters illegally.

AviationCompany Being Formed . In Maritimes

HALIFAX, April 21—Major General MacBrien,‘ outlining the work that i had been done in world aviation in i‘ Trinity Hall last evening, made a statement which shows that the day of air transportation is about to dawn i in thc Maritime Provinces. The state- ment. was that an aviation company is being formed in thc Merit-lines under the name of "Maritime Air- , ways," This is to be associatcd iviiiil ‘the International Airways. Fairchild Aviation Company and Canadian. lAlrwnys of which three companicsw‘ ‘he is general mauugcr, These com-‘ monies and the pi-oposcd Maritime ‘Airways ivlll be under a holding ‘company, pfObfibly called the Avic- ‘tion Corporation of Canada. Details ihavc not yet bccn worked out, but‘ are in progress and ilic formation of the ltfaritime Alrvrcy-‘s is practically assured.

‘Ills Maritime Airways will have directors representing each of the three Provinces of New Brunswick. Nova Bcotia and Prince Edward Ia- land. and is assured of airports at 5t. John. Moncton, Truro and Char- lottetown. The idea behind the en- tire soheme is to combine the five Eastern Provinces of Canada into one large air conccrn. Details will be available at a later dale.

COMMANDIJD BALTIC FLEET DURING GREAT WAR.

BERLIN. Germany, April 20.~ Prince Henry. 66. brother of former Kaiser Wilhelm dicd of pneumonia here today. It was understood Prince Henry for some time had been afflict- ed with cancer of tho larynx, the some malady with which his father, the late Emperor Frederick lfl was stricken. Just a year ago Prince Henry who commanded the Baltic ilcct dur- ing the world war, celebrated thc

burned to death yesterday when

tbs car he was trivia; cralhcd lead-ca fate a west bound car an leer street.

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fiftieth anniversary of his entry into

the navy, in which he held pronunsntlthcds sslaad in parsicdar. leccnqy

posts macs t his career.

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‘Veniot Taken To Task For

iPremier Will Be

Guest Of Honor

' (Special m the Guardian) LONDON, April 20.—Premier Fer-

guson will be the guest of honor and principal speaker at lhc seventh an- nual convention of thc Liberal Con- iscrvatlv; _ “l ‘at the Iiotcl London on Friday. May} Attltude 0f Dr. ‘l0. Tlic business session will include] ‘speeches by Hon. R. B. Bennett, Honq’ iCllnrles McCrca, Hon. Hugh Gutliriefl " ‘General A. D. McCrae and Mrs l-lo- ‘ ward Fallls. i

Assn. of Western Ontario

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(i-ipcclal tn the Guardian) NEW YORK, April 20~Thrce mill were ki":d rind about 2O injured when snziilolding on the fifteenth floor of time new Western Union building unrlcr construction at Tho- mas Strcet west of Broadway, col- lzrtsrrl today. The scaffolding

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ifilil M‘?

sciiaciiii Might Lead to An-‘-

HIGIICGHIL

(Canadian Press)

PARI$ April 20.—Marcel I-iutln. writing in the Echo De Paris today, - says that Georges Clemenceau, Fran- i ce‘s wartime premier, takes an ax- 5 cccclingly grave view of the attitude ' - ; the i ’ ‘pixescnt reparations deadlock. The 1

‘of Dr. Hialmar in

Sclmcht

journaluii. quoted Clemenceau asfol-

‘lows: His (Schncht) refusal and his ' ideslgns point toward nothing less ‘

than B. HEW WDI‘.

ll:- furthcr quotes “The Tiger" as r saying: "The Germans have only i/o 4 . refuse now to pay thc Dawes annui- ; ‘ our , .. ‘ occupation of the Rhineland zones, ' 1 after the period provided in the peace '

-ties, to justify maintenance of

treaty.

PROMOTIONS ANNOUNCED

‘TAKES Gilli‘ i E W l]

other War, Says Cle- ,

Dismissal 0f Postmasters

(From Our Own Correspondent) rose up to say that,

thc fifteenth floor struck another.

scaffold on the nincth floor, carrying; p‘ ‘ . A il Hil-Fii - several. workers down with it. In‘ OTTAWA’ om‘ pr W

i . =1 u c do ii turn, the timbers from the scaf- “me promotions‘ Gov tnga 35;“;

iing can be done until Monday when

OTTAWA, Ont. April' Iii-For three days the Hon. P. J. Veniot, postmaster-general, has been the victim of one of ihe most intense political barrages ever directed agaimt a cabinet minister, Under the rules. Thursday and Friday, when eatima‘ are underkiiscusslon are exclusively devoted to supply. It was impossible therefore to continue the debate on the amendment of Mr. Stewart of ‘Perth condemning the postmaster- ; general for his action in connection iwlth the posiinarterehip of Simcoe. f But the opposition determined that f not an item oi the post office eati- jmates would pass until the amend- ‘ment was disposed of, and if a man ivas ever placed upon a precarious dc- ifense 1t was the Hon. Mr. Veniot. Ho Qis a hard and brazen fighter. used jto the rough and tumble fights oi ;Ncw Brunswick, but he was placed in isuch an extraordinary position of in- .cxa.ctitudcs subsequently corrected land apologized for and specious ex- lplanations that other members of ‘the government must have felt keen- ,ily the siiuatlon. ‘ It was practically a. wholesale ‘slaughter on his part of postmastera lover four hundred, and the equally iwholesa-le substitution by liberal ,‘ party workers. His only jusiificatlon iwns that the Conservatives in paw- ier had been worse and the one thing ‘Jill extcnuation was thc frankness of ‘his admissions. The debate went on tonight without abatement and noth-

thc amendment of Mr. Stewart will be disposed of.

OTTAWA, April QiL-At a late hour ‘last evening. thc prime minister. who

it _b.\'1ig obvious. that the opposition intends not to‘ permite single item of the post office‘ estimates to pass until the amend- ment of Mr. Stewart, Perth, had been disprmcd of. it was a waste of time and suggested that the committee should switch to something else.

Coniormably, the Hon. Mr. Dunn- ing, Minister oi Railways, proceeded with the C. N. R. bills and in an hour succeeded in having confirmed the greater part of the nationals system of ‘construction programme. In a lyric! lib at private bills. tit-c divorce bills went through on division, buti to pass them en bloc. as alivays of,‘ old, was refused by Mr. Wooclsworth,‘ who still maintains the blockade: Last evening he was reinforced by Mr. Henri Bourassa, who said lici would oppose all divorce bills present- ed in any form.

In the present disposition of parlia- ment in regard to a number of mat- ters tlie hopes of an early prorcga. tion, early in May, are now dissipated, The indications are that the case of the Maritime Provinces for compensa-, tion for natural resources surrendered] to the middle west and for lands, taken from thc dominion public do- main in enlarging the boundaries of.‘ other provinces, will come up for con? sideratlon some time soon after the‘ end of the present session, but in.‘ correspondence with the Hon. Mini Baxter. Premier of New, Brunswick)‘ the Hon. Mr. Mackenzie King has‘ intimated that thc claims of each of i the provinces will be considered sep- arately. or as units on their merits

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of the members that in the end there; will be a. scrlcs of commissions ap-i

was tircd of the discussion about the administration oi the poet, office de- partment by the I-Ion. Mr. Veniot.

Judicate upon them individually. I

‘Thousands Of Canadians

Will Return

i I I I r

To Dominion ‘

(special to The Guardian) NABHUA, N’. 8., April 20.—The repatriation bureau oi this city, which has charge oi all the work of obtain- ing the return o! Canadians to their native land from all sections of New limgland, made it plain today that while there has been a substantial in- crease in the number of french Can- adian familiea who have gone back to the Dominion or have taken the in- itial stops towards their return, an exodus probably the greatest in the history of New Inland will take place within the next thne months. There are a great many reasons for the return oi many thousands oi Canadians to th’ dominion. Perhapl the most important is the general ca- cltne as industry ili Ill sections oi uaasacnuams, new Ilaaarlhira aac

isthendi

_er, governor general of the province

go into effect on July l of this year,‘ there being many thousands of Cam‘

folds struck a platform that Juttcd out just aboveihe ground floor, on which still more men were working. Police say they believed more injured persons might be found under the xvreckago.

SAN DIEGO, Calif, April 20. — 'I‘hrcc San Diego navy fliers were killed almost instantly and a fourth (lied cnroute to the hospital as the result of a mid-air collision over Cor- onado, bctween two North Island planes this afternoon.

‘Phe accident occurred as the two planes. attached to scouting squad- ron No. 3 North Island were prepar- ing to land at the navy flying field, having returned from Oceanside where target practice had been engaged in today. The planes both wreckcdJell into a mud fiat. located on the Cor- onado side of the Spanish bight. Res- cue partics hurried at once to the scene of the accident.