Mr. SPEAKER:

I have the honour to inform the house that I have received the following letter:

Ottawa, June 28, 1935.

Sir.-I have the honour to inform you that the Right Honourable Sir Lyman P. Duff, Chief Justice of Canada, acting as deputy of His Excellency the Governor General, will proceed to the Senate chamber this day at 4.30 p.m. for the purpose of giving the royal assent to certain bills.

F. L. C. Pereira, Assistant Secretary to the

Governor General.

Right Hon. R. B. BENNETT (Prime Minister) :

The Empire Parliamentary Association, United Kingdom branch, have extended an invitation to representatives of either house of this parliament who are members of the association to visit England during the next month. The invitation has also been extended

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to the clerk of the bouse who is honorary secretary of that association, and inasmuch as he is the servant of the house and not of the government, in order that his absence may be regularized, I should like to move, seconded by the former Minister of Justice (Mr. Lapointe):

That leave of absence be given Arthur Beauchesne, clerk of the house, for the remainder of the session.

Right Hon. R. B. BENNETT (Prime Minister) :

I desire to say a word of explanation with respect to order No. 6 under government orders with regard to Bill No. 21, to provide for limiting the hours of work in industrial undertakings to eight in the day and forty-eight in the week, in accordance with the convention concerning the application of the principle of the eight hour day or of the forty-eight hour week adopted by the general conference of the international labour organization of the League of Nations, in accordance with the labour part of the treaty of Versailles of the 28th June, 1919. In the certificate that went to the Senate accompanying the message, it is indicated that the Commons had agreed to all the Senate amendments except as regards the consequential amendment which I moved, to amendment No. 9. In the motion that is recorded in our house it appeared that we agreed to eight amendments, did not agree to amendments Nos. 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14. and moved our consequential amendment with respect to number 9. The Senate, taking the fact from the message and not from the certificate, sent back to this house the bill to have amendments Nos. 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 dealt with by the house. I went over those amendments fully at the time they were before the house and said that we concurred in them as they were not matters of importance, but in order that the matter may now be regularized owing to the' conflict between the certificate and the motion as recorded, I move:

That a message be sent to the Senate to acquaint their honours that this house agrees to the amendments Nos. 10, 11. 12, 13 and 14 made by the Senate to the Bill No. 21, an act to provide for limiting the hours of work in industrial undertakings to eight in the day and forty-eight in the week, in accordance with the convention concerning the application of the principle of the eight hour day or of the forty-eight hour week adopted by the general conference of the international labour organ-

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ization of the League of Nations, in accordance with the labour part of the treaty of Versailles of the 28th June, 1919, without any amendment.

And_ that the clerk of the house do carry the said message to the Senate.

We have not dealt, nor does this propose to deal with the consequential amendment which I moved the other day in regard to Senate amendment No. 9, and with which the Senate has indicated it does not agree. That means a conference or further action between the two houses. I am leaving that for the moment and will endeavour to dispose of it at the next sitting when I am further informed in connection with it. But in order that there may be conformity between the motion and the certificate, I am moving the motion aforesaid.

Mr. LAPOINTE:

I well remember that when the Prime Minister made that motion the other day he made it clear that we were agreeing with all the amendments made by the Senate except the one in regard to the time when the law would come into force as regards railway employees. With respect to that particular matter, do I understand that the government have not reached any decision as to what stand they will take?

Mr. BENNETT:

We shall have to have a conference.

Mr. LAPOINTE:

Then my right hon. friend wants to persist in the decision of the house?

Mr. BENNETT:

That is not finally settled. I wish to discuss it further with the leader of the Senate, who is not there to-day.

Right Hon. R. B. BENNETT (Prime Minister):

If the house will direct its attention to Bill No. 99, and to the votes and proceedings of this house indicating the action of the Senate I think they will agree that we cannot possibly accept the so-called amendment of that chamber. It will be recalled that Bill No. 99 of this house provided for the extension of the provision of the Canadian Radio Broadcasting Act of 1932, chapter 35, statutes of 1932-33 as amended by chapter 24 of the statutes of the present session, until March 31, 1936. There was an extension until June 30, 1935, but the Senate when it received the bill proceeded to provide that the whole radio set up, the measure known as the radio statute^ should only last until next March. Of course that is not an 92582-258

amendment, that is a declaration- of policy entirely at variance with that which the government has declared time and again to this house. I therefore move, seconded- by Mr. Guthrie:

That the house inform their honours that we are unable to agree to their amendments, inasmuch as they have made a declaration of policy not consistent with the avowed policy of the government, and that they insist upon the bill as it left this house being enacted.

Mr. SPEAKER:

It is moved by Mr. Bennett, seconded by Mr. Guthrie.

That a message be sent to the Senate to acquaint their honours that this house disagrees with their amendments to Bill No. 99, an act respecting radio broadcasting, for the reasons set forth by the Prime Minister, and that the clerk of the House carry the said message to the Senate.