Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-07-29
CONSERVATIVES GET
CONTROL IN CANADA
Sitter Policy Toward U. S.
Is Seen in Victory Over
Liberals.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OTTAWA, July 29-Returns tabu-
lated up to 9 am. eastern standard
time) today in Canada's general cleo
ton gave 1876 seats to the Conserva-
tives, IS to the Liberals, 10 to the
United Farmers, three to the Labor
party and two each to the Progressives,
the Neutrality-suspicious. and the indie
pendents, leaving five seats in doubt
out of total of 245 in the House of
Commons.
Conservative headquarters announced
that 1872 supporters we're distributed as
follows: Maritime provinces %;
Quebec, IS; Ontario, so: Manitoba, 8;
Saskatchewan, 5; Alberta, 4; British
Columbia, s.; the Yukon, /.
Thus after IL years in power the.
Liberal government Of w. l.. Macken-
zie King has been overthrown. The
Conservative party, headed by Rich
ard Bedford Bennett, won a majority
of seats in the House.
Premier to Resign.
When Mackenzie King submits his
resignation to the governor general, the
prime minister will be Bennett, a law
yer, who has practiced for years in
Calgary and was born and educated in
Nova Scotia. He has been Conserva-
tive leader three years. He is so years
old and wealthy. The time of the
change is not definite, as an outgoing
ministry is given opportunity to adjust
its affairs.
Victory for the Conservatives, tradi-
tional proponents of a high protective
tariff, was forecast early by an almost
unprecedented upset in Quebec, Liberal
stronghold. There they gained 20
seats, increasing the 4 Quebec seats
they held in the last Parliament to "a,
and defeated two Liberal ministers.
Bennett won an easy victory in his
constituency In Calgary, Alberta. Mac
kenzie King fought an uphill battle
against his Conservative opponent in
Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, and won.
Five Ministers Defeated.
Five Liberal ministers were defeated:
Charles Dunning, minister of finance,
whose last budget included tariff re-
prisals against the United States; T. A.
Crerar, minister of railways; Lucien
Cannon, solicitor; Cyrus Macmillan,
minister of fisheries, and w. F. Kay,
minister without portfolio.
Ten women sought seats, but Agnes
c. MacPhail. the first woman to enter
Canada's House of Commons, alone was
elected. She has held her district since
1921.
The maritime provinces changed their
party allegiance. In New Brunswick,
represented in the last Parliament by
five Liberals and six Conservatives, the
final count showed 10 Conservatives and
one Liberal In Prince Edward Island
the three Liberals and one Conservative
and one Liberal.
Ontario. a Conservative stronghold
reduced its Liberal representation.
Prairie Provinces Change.
The prairie provinces, where only one
Conservative was elected four years ago.
showed a great gain for that party
The tenure OF ONCE of Mackenzie
King. educated at Harvard, has been
featured by cordial relations with the
United States. Legations were estab-
lished at Washington and Ottawa
Only few months ago expectation of
liquor to the United States was forbid
den.
e. C. Drury, former prime minister
| of Ontario and advocate of prohibition,
failed to win a seat in yesterdays
voting.
In the campaign the Conservatives
attacked the countervailing duties
against the United States imposed by
| the Dunning budget on the ground they
E! were not sufficiently retaliatory against
the United States tariff. The New Zea-
land treaty of the Liberal government
was attacked as permitting an influx
| of great quantities of dairy products
to compete with Canadian products,
JobIess Issue Raised.
Injection Of the unemployment issue
| by Benefits promise Of special ses-
sion aroused widespread interest among
| the voters. Although the Liberals
J claimed great economies as the result
| of their leadership, the Conservatives
ascribed business depression to Liberal
policies.
The standing of the parties in the
! last Parliament was: Liberal, 1913: Con-
sentative, 90; Liberal-Progressive q. IN
dependent, q; United Farmer, IL: Labor
3. The Liberals lacked one of a ma :.
| jority after electing a speaker, but had
| the aid Of the Liberal Progressives.
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