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its real object will be fulfilled. Probably the inconvenience 
caused to the late Cape Government by the strong position 
of the Upper House has induced the Conference to adopt 
this special form of legislation. The other Upper Houses 
in South Africa have, it may be noted, not played any great 
part in Colonial politics, and therefore the representatives 
of the Transvaal, Orange River Colony, and Natal most 
probably felt no great eagerness to establish an Upper House 
of too great strength. It is noteworthy that no attempt 
at a referendum on the Queensland model? was made. 
- In The Government of South Africa, i. 417-23, the possibility of a uni- 
cameral legislature is suggested, and in 1909-11 one of the proposals 
regarding the Senate in Canada was its abolition, as in 1881 in the. case of 
the Legislative Council of Newfoundland.