Los Angeles herald., 1907-10-16
WANT YOUNG BLOOD
IN LAURIER CABINET
INDICATES SWEEPING CHANGES
WILL BE MADE
Desire Ready Observation-Disclosures
Likely to Inquire Why Canadian
Money Is Sent to the
United States

OTTAWA, Canada, Oct. 15.-More
changes in the domin I cabinet are
coming Mr.. Graham and DR.. Pugs-
ley have taken their seats as ministers
respectively, of railways and public
works, but there will be other vacancies
Mr.. SiIton, who declined the offer made
to him to become one of Sir Wilfrid S
colleagues again by filling one of the
above appointments except on conditions
| Sir Wilfrid was unable at the time to
concede, is still cabinet possibility.
| One of the conditions referred to, a
leading one, was the retirement of Sir
Richard Cartwright, minister of trade
and commerce; Mr.. Patterson, minister OF
customs, and r. w. Scott, secretary OF
state, as past the age for active service
or for other reasons. Sir Richard is al
most a cripple from rheumatism. The
minister of customs, however, is still one
of the strongest debaters in the house
of commons, but he and Mr.. Sifton dc
not appear to be able to pull together.
The secretary of state is in his eighty
third year and performs the duties OF
his office with remarkable ability, but
Mr.. Sifton insists on younger man be-
ing given the portfolio. and he is backed
Liberal members, who are pressing their
claims % cabinet ranks.
The retirement of Sir Frederick Bor-
den, minister of militia. Is also one OF
the probabilities of the near future. AL
though Sir Wilfrid did not see his way
to accede to Mr.. Sifton's conditions at the
time, he is expected to do so in the near
future. 1t is likely only a matter OF a
few weeks or months at most. and when
4 al oil N
1t may be with cabinet consisting al
most exclusively of the younger class of
Liberal politicians, nearly all of whom
will be physically fit to go into the field
and fight The next electoral campaign
with the vigor Mr.. Sifton considers es-
sential to insure success at the polls.
Residence for Premier
Among the costly additional government
buildings at present contemplated an Of
fetal residence for Sir Wilfred Laurier
and his successors in the position of
prime minister is talked of. Close to
government house. the residence of the
governor general, is a mansion that Sem
ator Edwards a prominent supporter
of Sir Wilfrid, Is modernizlng in a lux
urious manner, which the senator would
be willing to allow the government to
acquire for the purpose referred to. 1t
stands on extensive grounds overlooking
the Ottawa river at one of the most
picturesque points In the capital. The
government is disposed to purchase the
site of Senator Edwards sawmills and
lumber piling grounds, between the man
sion and the built up end of Sussex
street. and all the strip of land border
ing the river, for a continuous park from
Majors Hill park and the great govern
ment block to be erected on the east
edge of Majors Hill, or, in other words.
the. west side of Sussex street. The
whole of the land and buildings on the
west side of Sussex street has already
been taken by the government for the
new block above mentioned, and when
the old buildings have been pulled down
and the new block erected the additional
acquisition of the land farther on to
Senator Edwards mansion, would afford
site for a park, which, with the gov
ernment grounds and the national park
adjoining them and the Rockliffe park.
now the property of the government i'm
provement commission, would make
probably one of the finest and most pic
turesque and extensive open spaces of
the kind in all America If not in the
world.
Want Their Money at Homo
1t is intimated that the action of the
u
of the country to financial centers in
the United States throughout the recent
stringency is to be brought before par
lament at the cominp fall session. In
many cases where the banks refused to
supply the home demands for legiti-
mate financing the reason alleged was
that all the available funds would be
required for moving the western crops.
| This claim Is regarded as inadmissible
Il H., I..,.
been able to spare some $S4,000,000 to
| transmit to banking institutions in the
principal American cities There is
abundant evidence on all hands that
genuine industrial and other enter
prises in Canada have been seriously
embarrassed for some months by the
policy of the banks in restricting ac-
commodation to home undertakings
while contributing freely to the de-
mands from south OF the line.
Chinese Worm Turns
Chinese residents of the northwest
have appealed to their government al
Peking for protection against alleged
arbitrary interference on the part OF
the Canadian mounted and municipal
police. The Chinese at Regina have
been in the habit of meeting on Sun
ldays for social purposes, and were re-
Gently raided, and slXty-nVe OF tnell
number arrested. They secured legal
assistance, and set up the claim that
they had the same right to gather fol-
social purposes on Sunday as members
of various Canadian clubs and societies
who did the same thing. Chinese who
| have not taken the oath of allegiance
as British subjects, 1t is contended fol
them, are by international law secured
residence rights in a foreign country
and as subjects of the Chinese empire
are on an equality with the native borr
citizens. 1t appears that money has
been subscribed by the Chinese to carry
the question to the higher courts for {
i iudrment and In the meantime the ap