CANADA'S NAVY BILL.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1693, 8 March 1913, Page 5

CANADA'S NAVY BILL.

GOVERNMENT IN A FIX. OPPOSITION STONEWALL. EIGHT-HOUR SHIFTS.' 'By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Ottawa, March G. Tho House is still sitting, and has completed sixty hours' continuous debate. Members can scarcely whisper. Relays are taking eight-hour shifts to onable tho Opposition to proceed. Tho Government is faced with tho alternative of going without Supply or adjourning the Naval Bill for a week. The Prime Minister (Mr. Borden) announces his intention of introducing a measure restricting debate, but such will bo effective, as tho Liberals are able to obstruct this on the same lines as they are now obstructing the Navy Bill. It is believed the only outcome will be another election. Members are sleeping in their seats, and iire prolonging the speeches by reading newspaper advertisements and telling stories, mostly irrelevant tho debate. FRENCH-CANADIAN'S SPEECH. Toronto, March 6. Mr. Henri Bourasa, M.L.A. lor Montreal, and Leader of the Nationalist party in 'tho Cauadian Parliament, speaking at a banquet, said the British people were tho sole and absoluto masters of the Empire, therefore they ought to pay for its defence without asking the colonies to assist. Confident in the might of the British Navy, the British Government persisted in maintaining its right of piracy. Canadian independence, without a link of the British Crown, but on a basis of friendly relations with Great Britain and France, was desirable.