Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-28
CANADIANS VOTING
FOR NEW COMMONS
PAS Seats at Stake in EIec.
ton Today-LiberaIS
Fight for Power.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, July 28.-After a lively
58-day campaign, Canada's 1000, 900
voters cast ballots today in the Do
minion's seventeenth general election
Tor the 245 members of the next House
of Commons.
The Dominion was dry today, so to
speak. All provincial government
liquor stores we're closed because of bal
loting for members of the House of
Commons.
Seeking to add at least "a to their
90 seats in the house in an effort to
Dust the Liberals, who have held sway
for IL years. the Conservatives have
emphasized the issues of the tariff and
unemployment. Led by r. B. Bennett,
the Conservative party has. demanded a
high tariff as a measure of retaliation
against the new United States tariff.
Premier Defends Policy.
Premier w. L. Mackenzie King,
Liberal. has urged the Importance of
imperial trade preference as embodied
in the budget of Finance Minister
! Dunning. The main object of the
governments trade policy, he said in
, his final campaign address, is extension
Of trade within the British Empire and
widening British trade preference.
This budget recently increased tariffs
on goods from the United States to the
extent of the United States tariff on
similar goods from Canada.
Two other issues which the premier
stressed in all his speeches were the
reductions effected by his government
in taxes and the national debt and the
high caliber of representatives the
Liberal government was prepared to
send to the coming imperial economic
conference.
The Conservative policy of Canada
! first toward the imperial preference
issue has been most widely expressed
in connection with the treaty with New
Zealand, which, Bennett said in his
closing radio address, permits millions
of pounds of New Zealand butter to
come into the Dominion in competition
| with the Canadian product.
The number of candidates is 544. of
which $50 are Conservatives and 223
are Liberals The Communists have
made their first appearance in a general
election with eight candidates. There
are 10 woman candidates. Miss Agnes
MacPhail the only woman member of
Parliament, is the sole remaining can
didate Of the once powerful United
Farmers of Ontario party.
Ontario Race Warm.
Ontario where IT'S candidates will
battle for 80 seats, is considered the key
| to the election. The Conservative party
has a candidate in each riding and the
Liberals in 70. In the last general cleo
| ton, in 1926, Ontario returned SO Con-
| servatives, rs Liberals, 2 Liberal-Pro-
! ereSSives, / United Farmer and l Pro-
! greSSive.
| Electioneering by radio has been a
feature of Dominion general election
! for the first time.
In the last Parliament when the Lib
erals had elected their speaker they
were one short of a maiority. Their re-
! lations with beral-Progressives were
so close that the government could al
ways count on a working ma jority. At
dissolution, the standing of parties was
! Liberals, 1913; Conservatives, 90; Lib
eral-Progressives, 9; ProgressiveS indie
| pendents, 2; United Farmers of Alberta,
! II; Labor, 3. Total 245.