The somnolent Canadian Senate ordinarily stirs so little excitement that when newsmen turned up to hear the Senators ruminate on a new tariff bill last May, they had to hunt up the key to the press gallery. Last week the normally docile Senate, in an explosive rebellion against Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's Tory government, defiantly rejected a Tory bill to fire the Bank of Canada's Governor James E. Coyne. Considering himself thus vindicated in his own bitter falling out with the government, and knowing that his usefulness was over anyway, Coyne forthwith resigned as manager of the country's money supply....
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