CANADIAN POLITICS

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 11 January 1926, Page 5

CANADIAN POLITICS

VOTE OF CONFIDENCE. WANTED BY GOVERNMENT. . . CUSTOMS AND TARIFF PROPOSALS BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION -COPYRIGHT. OTTAWA, Jan. 8. 'lhe Ec-derai Government, after the formal, opening of Parliament to-day, sought a vote of confidence m itself, the Hon. Ernest Lapointe (M inister for Justice), the Leader oi the House, moving that, in view of the recent general election, the Government was justified in retaining olfico and in .summoning Parliament, and that the Gov. eminent was entitled to retain office unless defeated by a vote equivalent to a \ote of want of confidence. The Opposition claimed that the motion was out of order. The Speaker (Mr. Rudolph Lemieux), who was elected, will give a ruling on Monday. Mr. Lapointe is acting as Leader of the House, the Prime Minister (the Right Hon". IV. Mackenzie King) being prevented from sitting and taking part in the activities because he was personally defeated at the late election. The Conservatives, headed by Mr. Arthur Meiglian, intimated that the position of the Government will be challenged immediately. Air. Meighan moved a vote of no-confidence, the motion going over to Monday. A recount of votes in the cases of the nine Alinisters of the Crown defeated at the polls shows that the Conservatives secured in the election by far the largest support of the popular vote, and have substantially the largest number of members of any party in the House. The Speech front the Throne announces the appointment of a tariff advisory board forthwith to make a careful study of the Customs tariff, the revenue to lie derived from that source, and the effect of the tariff and allied factors on the industry of agriculture. The Speech further expresses the view “that a general increase in the Customs tariff would prove detrimental, and that the incidence of taxation should bear as lightlv as possible upon the necessaries or life, on agriculture, and on other primary industries.” Strong measures will lie taken to retain the agricultural population on the land, and to this end a rural credits scheme will he introduced.