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halter and led it about. Before anything could happen 

 to it, however, and the judges get a chance to study its 

 good and bad points, July (1911) came along and 

 Parliament dissolved like a lump of sugar dropped into 

 a cup of tea and in the hub-bubbles of a general election 

 everything was in statu quo, as they say. And when 

 the race was over and the Party Nags back in their 

 stalls, lo ! new tenants were taking their turn at sliding 

 around on the polished Treasury Benches and having 

 a sun bath! 



The new Minister of Trade and Commerce was 

 Hon. George E. Foster. He looked over the Grain Bill, 

 passed his hand along its withers and patted it on the 

 rump. Then he sat down and made a copy of it, 

 idealizing it by injecting a few " betterments," then 

 trotted it out for inspection with tail and mane plaited 

 and bells on its patent-leather surcingle. He did not 

 claim to be its real father only its foster-father. He 

 introduced it to the House with a very lucid review of 

 the whole agitation for improvement in the Grain and 

 Inspection Acts since " Johnny " Millar, of Indian 

 Head, Saskatchewan, handed in the Royal Grain Com- 

 mission report in 1907. 



The new Government proposed to grant government 

 control of terminal elevators only on a limited and 

 experimental scale. They wanted to test out the 

 principle by lease or construction of two or three 

 terminals at the head of the lakes before undertaking 

 the financial responsibility of handling the entire 

 terminal system. Heretofore there had been govern- 

 ment supervision merely; but now for an experiment 

 there would be government operation as well while the 

 management of the remaining terminals would have to 

 be satisfactory to the Government. 



