Senate Reform Is Discussed By John Evans
John Evans of Saskatoon addresses the debate on the throne speech and expresses disappointment over delays to Senate reform. He argues for equal representation and an elective senate, suggests inter-provincial talks as a path, and warns that sectionalism will worsen until reform occurs.
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Omewa
John Evans
Progressive
Saskatoon
Senate
House of Commons
Wisson
Ontario
Quebec
Canada
Dominion and Provincial Governments Respecting Senate Seform
Ottawa-Herbert Marler backs pre war indemnity cuts
Liberal MP Ottawa Herbert Marler urged the House of Commons to lead in trimming expenses by reducing sessional indemnities. He proposed cutting to pre war levels, indicating over a million dollars could be saved by lowering Senate and Commons pay from the current $4,000.
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Ottawa
Herbert Marler
St. Lawrence-St. George
Montreal
House of Commons
Agnes MacPhail
Mr. Marler
Progressive member seeks ban on horse racing in Commons
W. C Gont of Brant gives notice of a resolution to abolish the special privilege allowed to racing associations under the Criminal Code. The motion argues public gambling at race meetings harms Canada’s best interests and should be ended.
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Howes of Commons
W. C Gont
Brant
Canada
Mennonites Sell Land in Hague District Near Million Dollar Deal
Leaders of the Old Colony Mennonites in Hague district sign an agreement with Chicago capitalists for sale of 40 000 acres of land livestock and equipment. F A Williams of Winnipeg represents American interests. Sale price not stated but believed near one million dollars. Many have already left for Mexico leaving some to await the sale before joining them.
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Saskatoon
Ol Colony Mennonites
Hague District
Chicago
F. A. Williams
Winnipeg
Old Colony Mennonites
Mexico
Canada
Amend Criminal Code proposals in Ottawa move to allow retrials
Joseph Archambault, M P, Chambley-Vercheres, backs amendments to permit appeals on questions of fact in criminal convictions. He also seeks a change to keep elected jury trials from switching to judge trials after a true bill is returned.
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Ottawa
Joseph Archambault
M.P
Chambley-Vercheres
Forke urges national policy for all Canada in debate
Robert Forke, Progressive leader, argues for a national policy spanning from Atlantic to Pacific. He criticizes reliance on short term legislation and extreme party moods, calling for private enterprise and public utilities to lift Canada from bondage to progress. He critiques Meighen’s manifesto as a Christmas tree approach.
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Ottawa
Robert Forke
Canada
Atlantic
Pacific
British Farmers Protest U S Bacon Trade Tactics
The National Farmers Union of Great Britain accuses the United States of hoodwinking Britain by exporting bacon through Canada as the so called best quality Canadian product. They urge a distinctive brand and seek to end the practice. The union also helped enforce the embargo on American potatoes to curb Colorado beetle imports.
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London
United States
Canada
England
National Farmers' Union of Great Britain
Farmers’ Union
Colorado
No Change In Grain Rates, Hudson Says
Hon. A. B. Hudson, K.C., M-P., told the South Winnipeg Liberal Association banquet that grain rates should stay the same and that the position reached on those rates cannot be altered, though he offered no authority on the Crow's Nest Pass agreement or any forecast of government action.
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Winnipeg
Supreme Court
Crow's Nest Pass
A. B. Hudson
K.C
South Winnipeg Liberal Association
Ottawa
Bill to Deport Prohibition Violators Passes House
Washington report states a bill to deport all aliens convicted of violating national prohibition and narcotic laws, or involved in white slave offenses, passed the house 213 to 39. The measure, framed by Rep. Holaday of Illinois, heads to the senate.
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Washington
House
Holaday
Ilinois
Senate
Prague protest turns violent over living costs
Ten Communists and four policemen were wounded in a Prague demonstration against high living costs. Police arrested fifteen participants as clashes erupted.
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Prague
French Air Mission Crash Kills Pilot at Lake Chad Route
In Niamey French West Africa the second plane of the French air mission to Lake Chad crashed on takeoff. The pilot was killed and the other occupant injured in the accident.
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Niamey
French West Africa
Lake Tchad
Building permits show decline in 1924 across 60 Canadian cities
Dominion Bureau of Statistics figures for 60 cities indicate 1924 construction value of 123 million dollars, down from 133 million in 1923 and 148 million in 1922, signaling slower activity after 1923.
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Ottawa
Dominion Bureau of Statistics
Shoulder blade of mammoth found near Belgrave Hospital
Workmen digging near Belgrave Hospital for Children on Clapham Road uncovered a large fan shaped bone six feet down. An expert from the National History Museum identified the bone as the shoulder blade of a mammoth from the pleistocene period about 10 000 years ago.
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London
Clapham Road
Orkmen
National History Museum
Oxford Debaters Arrive in Steerage
The Oxford University team led by Malcolm MacDonald arrived in steerage in Honolulu after sailing from San Francisco due to no other accommodations. They did not want to postpone their departure.
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Honolulu
Oxford University
Malcolm MacDonald
San Francisco
Nome quarantine may be raised February 20
Nome Alaska officials say diphtheria quarantine rules could be lifted on February 20 if cases continue to improve. A thirty day quarantine would end and several patients already quarantined have recovered.
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Nome
Nome Board of Health
China Withdraws From Opium Conference in Geneva
The Chinese delegation led by Alfred Sze withdrew from the Far Eastern opium conference and both Geneva bodies on opium and narcotics due to the failure to adopt a system to suppress opium smoking. Sze left the conference on February 7.
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Geneva
Alfred Sze
Far East
Sze
Rail board rules liquor rates not treated differently
Ottawa in dismissing the Manitoba Government control commission complaint against carload commodity rates on liquors wines and spirits the board of railway commissioners states a judgment made public that no good reason has been shown to justify different rate treatment for liquors compared to other commodities.
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Ottawa
Manitoba Government Control Commission
Board of Railway Commissioners
Latvia passes liquor law targets Riga hotels and restaurants
Latvia enacts a prohibition like measure and Riga authorities plan to close about 50 hotels and restaurants accused of selling liquor. City leaders weigh permanent shutdowns as the anti drinking push widens.
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Riga
Latvia
Asquith Raised to Viscount and Earl Titles
The official gazette announces February 9 letters patent conferring Viscount Asquith of Morley and Earl of Oxford and Asquith on Herbert Asquith and his lawful heirs.
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Asquith
London
United Kingdom
Herbert Asquith
Morley
West Riding of Yorkshire
Earl of Oxford
Allocate Proceeds of Fine Imposed On Egypt
The House of Commons approved the disposal of the £500000 fine on Egypt for the murder of Sirdar Major General Sir Lee Stack. £49000 went to the Sirdar's widow as compensation, £5000 to Major Campbell, and £5000 to the chauffeur. The balance will fund benevolent objects in the Sudan.
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Sudan
Armenian Charged With Fraud and Conspiracy
G. H. Alexander, an Armenian, was arrested in Galt Ontario after RCMP uncovered a scheme to obtain naturalization certificates, passports, and immigration permits for foreign relatives. He appeared in Ottawa police court on a conspiracy charge, pleaded not guilty, and elected a jury trial with a preliminary hearing to follow.
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Ottawa
Vithe
Immigration and Colonization and External Affairs
Armenia
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
G. H. Alexander
Galt
Ont
Russia Faces Flour Shortage After Poor Harvest
Russia battles flour scarcity as crop failures hit millions. Moscow reports renewed orders abroad to cover grain shortages amid an unusually mild winter with little snow. Central executive committee notes the looming harvest year and the impact on supply.
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Moscow
Russia
Caucasus
Officer Knight Promoted to Assistant Commissioner
Announcement of R S Knight RCMP officer in British Columbia promoted to assistant commissioner effective January 1 1925. Knight joined in May 1890 and served in Regina Yukon Winnipeg and with the RCMP squadron in Siberia.
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Ottawa
R. S. Knight
Canadian Mounted Police
British Columbia
Knight
Regina
Yukon
Winnipeg
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Siberia
Australia Not Helping Aliens Melbourne
Federal Prime Minister Bruce states Australia offers no assistance to aliens amid protests from Victoria against unrestricted immigration of Southern Europeans. He notes Canberra recently set monthly passport visa limits to 100 for Greeks and Yugoslavs.
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Melbourne
Bruce
Greece Appeals to League Over Patriarch Expulsion
Greece appealed to the League of Nations after Turkey expelled the Most Rev. Constantinos, patriarch of the Greek Catholic Church, from Constantinople. Athens said the move threatens friendly Greek Turkish relations.
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Geneva
Greece
League of Nations
Turkey
Constantinos
Constantinople
Paris Debt Dispute Split Over Separate Issues
Official notes from Winston Churchill are viewed more favorably by official circles than French editorial opinion. British proposals are seen as generous but hinge on separating debts from reparations, a step France may not yet accept. The main obstacle is the readiness to discuss the two questions separately.
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Paris
Winston Churchill
Herriot
Mr. Churchill
France
Great Britain
League of Nations session held in Ottawa proposed
A suggestion to hold a portion of League of Nations business in Ottawa emerged at Geneva. Sir Herbert Ames, Canadian director of the League's finances, originated the idea. While unofficial, many delegates reportedly privately approve the plan, hoping an Ottawa assembly would bring League workings closer to the United States and Canadian people.
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League of Nations
Ottawa
Geneva
Sir Herbert Ames
Cerely
Canada
United States
C N R to Spend Eight Millions on Branch Lines
Ottawa reports the Canadian National Railways spent 1 650 751 on branch lines in 1924. Estimated 1925 spend rises to 8 766 585 with a total program of 15 168 000 for 548 miles of new track. Reports detail 91.5 miles laid and 72.6 miles of telegraph lines added across branches in Saskatchewan Manitoba and Quebec areas.
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C.N.R
Ottawa
Canadian National Railways
Department of Railways
House of Commons
Peebles
Sask
Prince Albert
Gravelbourg
St. Rose du Lac
Manitoba
Grande
Quebec
Rate discrimination in freight denied by D'Arcy Scott
Vancouver officials heard D Arcy Scott K C former assistant chief commissioner of the board of railway commissioners say there was no justification for a higher freight rate westward than eastward even for export products. He stated western operating costs from the prairie provinces were not higher and grades were lower.
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D’arcy Scott
Vancouver
B.C
D'Arcy Scott
K.C
Board of Railway Commissioners
Board of Trade
Prairie Provinces
Mr. Scott
Dominion lands record flour order for Russian needs
The Russian government via Amtor Trading Company placed the largest flour order in milling history. Maple Leaf Milling of Canada will supply 1,150,000 barrels with Western Canada Mills providing the rest, for shipment from New York to Batumi for starving masses. Delivery starts with ships and trains, continuing into April.
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Toronto Canada
New York
Amtorg Trading Company
Maple Leaf Milling Company of Canada
Western Canada Flour Mills
Batam
Black Sea
PD. A. Campbell
Maple Leaf Milling Company
Tax on Bachelors Sparks Parliamentary Mockery
In Ottawa debate Kicking off with Donald Sutherland proposing a bachelor tax, Liberal Herbert Marier retorts amid laughter. Sutherland presses the idea, asking if his colleague is single, and Marier responds he would impose a high tax on bachelors to wipe them out quickly.
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Ottawa
Donald Sutherland
South Oxford
Herbert Marier
St. Lawrence St. George
Mr. Marier
Political Sop Debate Spurs Temperance Clash at Queen's Park
The Globe labels proposed legislation a political sop aimed at the wets within the Conservative party, arguing it violates temperance law. The announcement is described as the era's most sensational from Queen's Park, risking premier's pledged word in a cauldron of political calculation.
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Queen's Park
Globe
Silver Coins For Russia From Britain Circulate In Moscow
Ten million dollars worth of silver coins minted in Great Britain for the Soviet Government have been released into circulation in Moscow. Simultaneously orders were issued to the Leningrad state mint for gold guronetz to be issued in metal rather than paper.
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Moscow
Great Britain
Leningrad
Cable Link Between Italy and America Announced in Senate
Minister of Communications Ciano announced the completion of the cable between Italy and America in the senate. The chamber greeted the news with loud applause and stood to cheer the disclosure.
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Italy
America
Senate
Communications Ciano
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Pritish
Germany
Luther
Forke
U.S
Judson
Carter
China
Egypt
R.C.M.P
Australia
Stephen G. Porter
Dominion
Toronto Globe
Liniment
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