SHARPLY DIVIDED.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1911, Page 5

SHARPLY DIVIDED.

CANADIAN LIBERAL CAUCUS. THE RECIPROCITY QUESTION. SIR W. LAURIER AND THE CORONATION. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received May 3, 9.10 a.m.) OTTAWA, 2nd May. At a Liberal caucus meeting an offer by the Opposition to vote supply, in order to allow Sir Wilfrid Laurier (Prime Minister), to attend the Imperial Conference, was debated. The caucus was sharply divided on tho matter, and the meeting concluded without any decision being reached. ONE PEOPLE, ONE FLAG. CANADA AS PART OF THE UNITED STATES. " WASHINGTON, 2nd May. In the debate on the Free List Bill in the House of Representatives, Mr. Madden, an Illinois Republican, said he hoped that some day Canada would be part of thtj United States. One people, one flag, and one Government would be better for all when euch came to pass, if ever it did. " UNJUST PROPAGANDA." TO DEFEAT RECIPROCITY. WASHINGTON, 2nd May. Speaking in tho Senate, Senator Stone, a Missouri Democrat, denounced alleged unjust propaganda to' defeat reciprocity. He hoped that freer trade with Canada would result ; the American people ought not to be alarmed with stories of ruin. Senator Gallinger, a Republican representing New Hampshire, said America would lose- ten million dollars of revenue without an adequate return.