AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 29 June 1926, Page 3

AMERICAN CABLE NEWS

TRetiter Telegrams.] CANADIAN POLITICS. (Received this day at 12.25 p.m.) OTTAWA. June 23. The crisis which led to the resignation of the Government, chiefly arose over two questions. Firstly, the Customs scandal, where in a committee of inquiry recommended the discharge of the Deputy Minister of Customs, and censure of the Minister of Customs, but the Government declined to adopt the Committee’s report. The second trouble was a religious one. When the province of Alberta was incorjiprated, certain, lights were granted the Catholic population to establish separate denominational schools. These rights were never exorcised but in some recent legislation affecting Alberta and Quebec, Catholic supporters of the Government insisted on maintaining the right to separate schools against Alberta’s protest and the Premier responded to the demands of the French Canadian Catholics to secure their support in the House. The attitude of the Government on these two questions caused a defection from the ranks of the Progressives whose support helped the Government to precariously hang on all through the session and this led to an adverse vote being taken on Saturday morning on a Labour amendment, supported bv the Government, whereon the Government were defeated by a ninojrity of one. Mr Meiglinn lias accepted the Governor’s summons to form a Government.