NO-CONFIDENCE MOTION
THAT COUNTRY REJECTED .
LIBERALS.
(«EUTER'B TELEGRAM.)
OTTAWA, loth January.
The Progressives, with the exception of five, all the Independents, and all Labour voted with the Liberals against the amendment. Following the defeat of the amendment, ,the House adopted without further division a Government motion, which the Conservative Leader, Mr. Meighen, sought to amend. This motion is to give precedence to consideration of the Address-in-Reply to the Speech from the Throne. The no-confidence amendment recounted that in the General Election the Liberals were defeated in a large majority of the ridings; that nine Ministers of the Crown, including the Prime Minister, Mr. King, were defeated; that the Conservatives secured the largest support of the popular - vote, and have the largest number of members of any party in the House, and declared that Ihe continuation ■■ of the Liberals in office would be a
violation of the principles and praC' lice of British constitutional law.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1926, Page 7
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154NO-CONFIDENCE MOTION Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1926, Page 7
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