RESIGNATION LIKELY

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 157, 31 March 1937, Page 11

RESIGNATION LIKELY

Premier of Alberta Again

Defeated

Edmonton, March 29,

The .Premier of Alberta. Mr. W. Aberhart, was overruled in the Legislature on a proposal to withdraw his Budget closure motion. Twenty-one social credit insurgents negatived the proposal without a vote being taken. The insurgents are insisting that Mr. Aberhart’s Budget makes an insufficient attempt to place social credit in effect, and are proposing a counter Budget providing for the payment of an unstated amount, of consumers’ dividends, and for interest-free farm loans. The Budget, debate will be resumed with likelihood of the eventual resignation of the Government.

Beaten on a motion for the adjournment last week by 27 votes to 25, Mr. Aberhart gave notice of the closure of the Budget debate. A Government spokesman declared that if the Budget was defeated the Government would resign. Twenty-one insurgents demanded the immediate launching of a definite plan of social credit on Douglas lines.