Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

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Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

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Title:: Part I. Introductory

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CHAP. 1] ORIGIN AND HISTORY 47 votes in favour of responsible government. The Bill was carried in the Lower House by thirty-five to twenty-five votes, and the Governor was delighted by the result. But the eastern members of the Council were so naturally indig- nant at the acceptance of so important a measure by so narrow a majority—they had cleverly managed, by placing one of the majority who passed the second reading in the chair, to compel the majority to carry all motions in com- mittee by the chairman’s casting vote—that they entered a weighty protest against the acceptance of responsible govern- ment as far as the eastern province was concerned. To tell the truth, it was clear that a general election might properly have taken place, not that it would have reversed the result, but that it would have placed it on a basis more secure than the very slight majority obtained in the Council! The Bill was a brief one, and merely made it possible for officers of the Government in certain positions to sit in either House of Parliament, and provided that the Crown should fix pensions for officers who would retire on political grounds, viz. the Colonial Secretary, the Treasurer, and the Attorney-General. The Secretary of State gladly secured the royal assent to the reserved Bill, and issued new letters patent re-appointing Sir H. Barkly to be Governor. The Colonial Secretary was not prepared to face an attempt at election to Parliament, and the Governor sent for the leader of the movement in favour of responsible government, Mr. Porter, who, however, was unable on grounds of age to form a ministry, and accordingly the Governor selected Mr. Molteno for the task, which he successfully carried out. At the same time the Governor, following the precedent he himself had set in Victoria, retained as an executive councillor the officer commanding the troops in the Cape, who was destined to succeed to the administration in the absence or incapacity of the Governor. The party opposed to respon- sible government continued to petition the Crown, but the Secretary of State declined? to accept their views in favour * Parl. Pap., C. 732, pp. 8 seq., 21 seq., 60 seq. * Thid., pp. 161 seq. ; H. L. 286, 1872.

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