Mr. SPEAKER:

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

Ottawa, April 4, 1936.

Sir,-I have the honour to inform you that the Right Honourable Sir Lyman P. Huff, Chief Justice of Canada, acting as deputy or His Excellency the Governor General, will proceed to the Senate chamber on Wednesday next, the 8th of April, at 5.30 p.m., for the purpose of giving the royal assent to certain bills.

I have the honour to be, Sir,

Your obedient servant,

P. L. C. Pereira, Assistant Secretary to the Governor General

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

Mr. Speaker, the motion I desire to make is one which requires notice, and if the house insists upon notice I shall allow it to stand as a notice of motion. It relates, however, to the appointment of a standing committee which it has been customary to set up at each session of parliament, and I understand the names I have suggested for the committee have been agreed upon by the whips of all parties.

I move:

That standing order 63 of the House of Commons, relating to the appointment of standing committees of the house, be amended by adding to the standing committees of the house for the present session a standing committee on railways and shipping owned, operated and controlled by the government to which will be referred the accounts and estimates of the Canadian National Railways and the Canadian Government Merchant Marine for the present session, for consideration and report to the house; provided, however, that nothing in the resolution shall be construed to curtail in any way the full right of discussion in committee of supply, and that said committee consist of Messrs. Barber, Beaubien, Beaubier, Bothwell, Elliott (Kindersley), Ferland, Fiset, Fraser, Gray, Hanson, Heaps, Howard, Howe, Kinley, McLarty, Maybank, Moore, Parent (Quebec West and South), Stewart, Veniot, Vien, Walsh, and Young.

1. How many persons have been naturalized in Canada from March, 1930, to March, 1934?

2. What was their nationality?

3. Of what race?

1. 99,467.

2.

Nationality Number

Afghanistan 1

Albania 14

Argentine Republic 19

Austria 5,939

Austria Hungary 28

Belgium 1,791

Brazil 3

Bulgaria 208

Chile 5

China 61

Cuba 4

Czechoslovakia 5,117

Danzig 17

Denmark 1,589

Egypt 3

Estonia 90

Finland 1,970

France 741

Germany 3,086

Greece 659

Guatemala 2

Holland 1,227

Hungary 5,651

Iceland 115

Italy 7,405

Japan 53

Latvia 158

Liechtenstein 1

Lithuania 993

Luxembourg 26

Macedonia 2

Mexico 5

Montenegro 13

Mount Lebanon 7

Norway 2,610

Palestine 24

Persia 16

Poland 19,332

Portugal 6

Roumania 4,128

Russia 18,223

Serb-Croat-Slovene State 4,325

South Africa 1

Spain 45

Sweden 2,179

Nationality Number

Switzerland 226

Syria 298

Turkey 9f4

Turkey (Armenia) 172

Turkey (Greece) 2

Turkey (Syria) 138

United States of America 9,483

Venezuela 1

Yugoslavia 1,076

Doubtful 95

Total 99,467

3. The only statistics kept are those of previous nationality.

1. Who is postmaster at Lafontaine, Ontario?

2. When was he appointed?

3. Who was the previous postmaster?

4. When and why was he discharged?

5. Was an inquiry made?

6. If not, why?

1. O. Joly.

2. 26th December, 1933.

3. Godfroi Fortier.

4. 26th December, 1933, on account of active political partisanship.

5. No.

6. Decision of Postmaster General based on sworn affidavits.

1. What salary is paid to Major General Sir James H. MacBrien as Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police?

2. What wras the salary paid his predecessor in office?

3. What additional allowances are given?

4. Is he furnished with government car and chauffeur?

5. What pension is received by Major General Sir James MacBrien?

6. On his present pension what would be the amount of hospital pay and allowances granted him in case of illness?

7. Was the expense of the recent speaking trip of Major General Sir James MacBrien to the United States borne by the dominion government?

8. If so, what was the object of the trip?

1. 812,000 per annum, less five per cent under the special Income War Tax Act.

2. $6,450 per annum, and allowances as shown in paragraph 3.

3. Free quarters, rations, fuel, light, medical attendance, etc., which are valued for pension purposes at $2,000 per annum.

4. Yes. He is furnished with a government car and chauffeur as has been the custom. Both are available as required for general use.

Questions

5. None. His militia pension is suspended whilst he is Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

6. As already stated, he is in receipt of no pension, but as an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, he is entitled to free medical attendance and hospitalization, if necessary.

7. Major General Sir James MacBrien recently went to Washington with other Canadian representatives to attend the North American Wild Life Conference and his expenses were paid from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police vote. While there, he conferred with the chief of the federal investigation bureau of the Department of Justice and also officials of the American coastguard service on police matters. He made no speeches in the United States except one on behalf of the Canadian delegation at the banquet held upon the conclusion of the conference previously referred to.

8. Answered by No. 7.