Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-11
CANADIAN TARIFFS
10 Be DISCUSSED
Bennett Faces Inquiries oil
Parliament on Working of
New Schedules.
special pispatch to The star.

TORONTO, Ontario, March H.
When Premier Bennett faces new
session of Parliament today he will give
an account Of his stewardship since
August, 1880, when he took the rein:
of power.
The first question to engage the at
tention of Parliament will be Just how
the new tariff schedules have worked
During the short emergency session last
September the government forced
through a drastic upward revision, as
q retaliatory measure against the high
er American rates.
Have these increased schedules helped
Canada? One of the premicr's closes
friends says that for the first time In
wears the gloom and dependency
which have prevailed in leading Ca
madam industries for years have been
lifted.
TO the cotton manufacturers, this
friend of the premier's points out, the
change In the textile tariff opened up
potential market of $32 900, 000-that
figure being the amount of last year {
imports of cotton goods; to woolen men
a potential market of $42,000,00 to
silk men, one of sl3,000,000, and to
hosiery men, one Of $4,800,o00.
No figures are available to show how
many new industries have been brought
in. Perhaps Premier Bennett will give
these figures shortly, but several sub
gtartial ones have come into being. For
example, the Canadian Celanese Co. has
already started the erection OF ST.
100000 extension in Quebec and expects
to add 1000 more men to its force upon
the completion Of this building.
The Associated Textiles Co. OF Louise
A. e. 81 avn NJ
sion and to add several hundred men 70
its force. Other firms expecting to ex-
parld building operations are the BrlcK
Silk Mills at Cowansville, Quebec; the
Consolidated Silk Mills, also of Quebec,
and the Brupbacher Mills at valley
Field.
Il is reported that Premier Bennett is
well pleased with the results so far at
tanned.
i Herridge Appointment.
The appointment of Maj. w. D. Her
ridre, x. c., to be the Canadian Min
lister to the United States has aroused
some protest from several influential
Conservative papers upon the ground
that Mai. Herridge was Liberal LOT
the greater part of his life.
The major changed from Liberal
TO q Conservative during the bitter con-
troversy between Lord Byng. then the
Canadian governor general, and former
Premier King over certain rights OF the
crown. Up to that time Maj Herrloge
was a close personal friend OF Mr.. King
as well as of Lord Byng, but the major
sided with Lord Byng and thus broke
his political as well as his personal
friendship with Mackenzie King. Dur
ing the last election Maj. Herridge ac-
con1panied Mr.. Bennett throughout
Canada on his campaign tour. He was
also his confidential associate at the
Imperial Conference and again on his
recent trip to Washington.
Those who know Maj HerTidge, how
ever, are enthusiastic about him. They
refer to him as one of the coming Ca
madam leaders He is just Al. Already
he is an outstanding lawyer and gifted
public speaker, lnheriting the latter
quality from his father. who was prob
ably the most powerful pulpit orator Of
There are many differences between
the United States and Canada that
must be decided soon. One of these is
the st. Lawrence waterways, and it Is
understood that Mai Herridge has
given q considerable amount Of study
to this problem. 1t is expected that
the youthful Canadian will take up the
duties left by Vincent Massey some
time in the early Summer.
Secession Movement"
When / asked Sir John Arid, Canadi-
an banker and industrialist, about the
secession movement in the western
provinces, he replied: Nothing TO 1t.
It was started in little town of less
than q thousand people. Less than a
dozen people, I understand, attended
the first meeting. Yet the newspapers
seized on 1t as capital news and sent it
all over the world. 1 should say the
newspapers were responsible for that
story. OF course, conditions are hard
in the west. They have been for sew
sral years. Until those conditions change
for the better We may expect to hear a
great deal about discomfort in those
sections"
Are conditions on the upgrade in
Canada?" asked.
well, they are no worse than they
were three months or six months ago.
That Is saying a good deal, because !
believe the worst is over We work in
cycles, good times follow bad times,
which in turn are followed by good
times. I have been in the banking
business half a century and I have
always seen business come back strong
er after few years OF hard times than
they were in the good times period
Immediately preceding. That is what
I think will happen again. This year
should work out better than last year"
Canada Shipping Wheat.
Canada, through its wheat pool, is
shipping wheat out Of the country to
Europe just as fast as 1t is possible
It Is trying TO clean up before Mr.
Legge's fire sale" which is expected to
dump 100000 bushels of United
States Farm Board wheat onto the
European market at ruinous prices in
the next few months. starts
"Canadas hope and prayer is that
the Federal Farm Boards wheat will
not start moving across TO Europe be-
fore April 49," said one Canadian who
knows this situation.
Canadian farmers have Just been told
by the Board of Grain Commissioners OF
Canada that the average cost of trans
porting bushel of wheat from the pro-
Queer in Western Canada TO the Liver