Canada & the Navy

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 173, 21 January 1914, Page 5

Canada & the Navy

THREE CAPITAL SIUPS TO BE PROVIDED. SENATE'S ACTION MISUNDERSTOOD By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 20, 10.33 p.m. Ottawa, January 20. (Mr. Borden, Federal Premier, replying to Sir Wilfrid Laurier, said if the Liberals chose to make the Senate's action a political issue, the Conservatives were ready to meet them. Canada had less control over the Upper Chamber than any Dominion within the Empire. Mr. Borden quoted German newspapers, showing how the Senate's action was misunderstood. He did not think they ought to allow the Senate to again bring discredit upon Canada's good name. The Government was quite linn jin its attitude. It would provide three I capital ships when it could do so. LIBERAL ACTION JUSTIFIED. THE REAL EMERGENCY QUESTION. LAUIUEirS PESSIMISM. 1 Received 20, !UI) p.m. | Ottawa, January 20. i Speaking in the debate in reply to • the Address from the Throne, Sir Wilfrid Laurier said that the absence of any mention of the Naval Bill entirely justified the Liberal action taken to ensure its defeat. He declared that he was an ardent Imperialist, but with him the autonomy of his eovuitry came first. Last session's Pill was merely founded upon expediency. ,' Anglo-German relations, as Lord Ilaldane had declared when he was recently in Canada, were ' really cordial. A flood of light had since been thrown on the emergency question, and it was clear that an attempt had been made to engineer a panic for the sole benefit of armour-plate manufacturers in order to obtain a fat contract. The German peril had disappeared', but a peril remained which all Canadians must face, namely, the high cost of living. That was really the question of emergency, for 'business throughout Canada was on an unsatisfactory basis. The speaker did not regard.(he future with confidence.