Mr. SPEAKER:

I have the honour to

inform the House that I have directed the Clerk of the House to lay upon the Table the report of the Civil Service Commission amending the salary rates for the class of Chief of the Stationery Division, House- of Commons.

Right Hon. W. L. MACKENZIE KING (Prime Minister) :

I beg to move:

That the recommendation of His Honour the Speaker laid on the Table of the House this day respecting the compensation of Mr. Eugene Naubert, Chief of Stationery Division, House of Commons, be concurred in.

Mr. W. F. MACLEAN (South York) :

I should like to make an explanation in connection with an incident in the debate yesterday on the Crowsnest pass agreement. When I challenged my hon. friend from St. John and Albert (Mr. Baxter) to make a motion for abrogation, I understood his motion to be for the abrogation of the suspension, but apparently he had in view the abrogation of the agreement, and I was rather surprised the way it came out. It was my -mistake, and, particularly as an old member, I am to blame. I am sure the vote would have been altogether different if my hon. friends in other portions of the House had understood it to be a motion for the abrogation of the suspension. I wanted to see the end, not of the agreement, but of the suspension of the agreement, and I am sure it will be only a short time before we do get an entire abrogation of the suspension.

Right Hon. W. L. MACKENZIE KING (Prime Minister) :

I think I can assure my hon. friend that there will be no general election before the next meeting of Parliament, and as soon as the next meeting of Parliament takes place, it is the intention of the Government to introduce a redistribution measure.

Mr. E. J. GARLAND (Bow River) :

I should like to ask whether, in view of the sentiment in the House in favour of a fall session, it is the intention of the Government to summon Parliament in the fall.

Right Hon. W. L. MACKENZIE KING (Prime Minister) :

As my hon. friend and other members of the House will recall, earlier in the year I stated that the Government rather hoped it might be possible to open our next session in the month of November, but in this matter, as in all others, the Government wishes to consult the convenience of hon. members so far as it can, and so far as it may be in the public inter-

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est. I gather from what the Whips of the different groups have told me that it would probably suit the convenience of the great majority of the members if for the next session we met early in January, rather than in November. We might have to ratify some treaty with the Balkan States or something of that kind in the fall, and if necessary we could call a session for that purpose.

Right Hon. ARTHUR MEIGHEN (Leader of the Opposition) :

I am very glad, Mr. Speaker, to observe that the Government has receded from its last impossible position, not with very good grace, but with just as much good grace as we have been accustomed to.

Mr. BUREAU:

The Government canvassed the opinion of hon. members first.

Mr. MACKENZIE KING:

H think I should answer my hon. friend's remark by saying that he has accepted the decision with his usual good grace.

Mr. MEIGHEN:

Because it was the position I have always taken, and the practice I observed, but the fall session was one of the great reforms promised, which has turned out not to be a reform at all, but merely a farce.