Geschichte der volkswirtschaftlichen Lehrmeinungen

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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Identifikator:: 836084659

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-28892

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Ricardo, David

Title:: Oeuvres complètes

Place of publication:: Paris

Publisher:: Guillaumin

Year of publication:: 1847

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XLVIII, 752 S)

Collection:: Economics Books

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cHAP. IT] CONTROL OVER INTERNAL AFFAIRS 1041 intolerable burden of the public debt, and the position in which the Colony was left by the contract of 1893, rendered this sacrifice inevitable, the fact that the Colony, after more than forty years of self-government, should have to resort to such a step is greatly to be regretted. 10. I have to request that in communicating this dispatch to your Ministers you will inform them that it is my wish that it may be published in the Gazette. Mr. Chamberlain also sent a dispatch to the Governor on March 30, as follows :— I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch of March 6, forwarding a Memorial from the New- foundland agents of the Anglo-American Telegraph Company protesting against the Railway Contract Act. I shall be glad if you will inform the Memorialists that [ have carefully considered their representations, but that [ am unable to comply with their prayer, and that the rights of the Company appear to be sufficiently safeguarded by the Supplementary Act which has been passed. The passing of this Act was followed by the suggestion by the Government that negotiations should be opened with the Imperial Government for a grant of a royal com- mission with the end of obtaining financial aid from that Government.! To this proposal the Imperial Government firmly demurred, pointing out that, since the idea of assistance had been mooted in 1890-1, circumstances had changed : the idea then was to provide means for the Government building a railway, now the railway had been built, and most of the assets of the Colony had been alienated without consulting the Imperial Government, which could not for a moment consider the grant of financial assistance to a self-governing colony, and would not therefore appoint a royal commission.? The opponents of the contract were by no means content with the situation, and insisted on petitioning the Secretary of State for the disallowance of the measure, and asked that Sir H. Murray, who had resigned his office, should be requested bo remain as Governor. They protested that the contract t Parl. Pap., C. 8867, p. 33. ! A commission was sent in 1899, but to report on the French rights, a0t as to financial aid. 12792

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