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Show IS CANADA SRLF-GOVERXIXG The exeoutive head of the Dominion Domin-ion government, no nonentity by any means, is the Duke of Devonshire, at a salary of $50,000 a year. He is appointed by the king in London; his rank is governor general. The Canadian legislative body in-, eludes a senate and a house of commons. com-mons. The senate has 87 members; they are appointed for life tenure by the crown. Canada has a supreme court. It has six members. From its decision appeal can be taken to the imperial council at London. All of which, merely as samples that at once suggest themselves, surely does not sustain the sophistry sophis-try that Canada is a sovereign state and entitled, at any stage of the proposed pro-posed league's transactions, to enjoy equal voting power with the United States. |