178 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT (parr 1 
from the Royal Crown. The motion was negatived by a 
strict party vote, but Sir Bartle Frere was to some extent 
superseded by the appointment of Sir Garnet Wolseley to 
be High Commissioner in South-east Africa. 
In British Columbia in 1908 attempts were made to 
censure the conduct of the Lieutenant-Governor in 1907 in 
refusing assent to the Immigration Bill of the Provincial 
Legislature of that year, but the Speaker of the Assembly 
was successful in preventing a formal censure being recorded, 
though feeling ran very high.2 
* Hansard, cexliv. 1606, 1865. In 1906 Lord Milner’s conduct was 
criticized in the House of Commons and eulogized in the House of Lords, 
but the action taken by him was as Governor of a Crown Colony. In 
1910 attempted criticisms of Liord Grey’s action in Canada were met in the 
Commons by the Under-Secretary of State. 
: Cf. Canadian Annual Review, 1908, p. 537; British Columbia Legis- 
lative Assembly Journals, 1908, pp. 7, 21, 31,