CANADIAN POLITICS.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18591, 16 January 1926, Page 13

CANADIAN POLITICS.

LIBERAL GOVERNMENT SAFE, (BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.) (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.) (Received January. 15th, 8.15 p.m.) OTTAWA, January 14. The Liberal Government was sustained by three votes on the first test) of strength in the new Parliament. CONSERVATIVE AMENDMENT. (REUTER'B TELEGRAMS.) (Received January, loth, 11.30 p.m.) OTTAWA, January 15. The Progressives, with the exception, of five, all'lndependents and all Labour members voted with the Liberals against the amendment. • Following the defeat of the amendment, the House adopted, without further division, the Government motion which the Conservative leader, Mr Meighen, sought to amend. This motion is to give precedence to the consideration of the Addre ss-in-Reply gpeech from the Throne no-confidence amendment. He recounted that in the General Election the Liberals were defeated in a large majority of the ridings, that nine Ministers of the Grown, including the Prime Minister (Mr W. L. Mackenzie King), were defeated, that the Conservatives secured the largest support from the popular vote and hare the largest number of members of any Party in the House, and declared that the continuance of the Liberals in office would be a violation of the principles and practice of British constitutional law.