cHAP. viii] RELATIONS OF THE HOUSES 605 
came very violently to the front. The Governor, Sir George 
Bowen, reported in a telegram of the 19th of September 
that his ministers proposed to place on the estimates the 
payment of members, as in Newfoundland and Canada. The 
Governor desired to know whether he was prohibited by 
the dispatch from the Secretary of State of the lst of 
January, 18682 from consenting to this proposal; if he 
were prohibited a collision between the Imperial Government 
and the House of Assembly was probably inevitable. In 
replying on September 27, Lord Carnarvon authorized 
the Governor to follow the advice of his ministers. In 
a dispatch of September 193 the Governor explained the 
situation at greater length: payment of members had 
been in force since 1871 under temporary Acts, and his 
Government proposed to regard the principle as the estab- 
lished law and to place a sum on the annual estimates to 
provide for the expenses of members. The Governor was 
of opinion that he should consent to this course, and he 
thought that a clear distinction could be drawn between 
the case in question and the proposed grant to Lady Darling, 
which formed the subject of the dispatch of January 1, 1868. 
The publication of that dispatch had caused the resigna- 
tion of the then Prime Minister, Sir James McCulloch 
and his colleagues, on the ground that the Secretary of 
State had attempted an unconstitutional interference with 
the principle of self-government as conceded to Victoria by 
the Queen and the Imperial Parliament. An address had 
been carried to the Assembly on the 4th of June 1868, in 
which the Governor had been informed that the dispatch 
suggesting that the vote to Lady Darling should not be 
recommended, except on the clear understanding that the 
grant would be brought before the Legislative Council in 
a particular form, was a violation of the constitutional rights 
of the Legislative Assembly and a dangerous infringement 
of the fundamental principles of the system of responsible 
government. Lord Canterbury had been unable to form 
* Parl. Pap., C. 1982, p. 1. * Purl. Pap., H. C. 157, 1868, p. 49, 
' Parl. Pap., C, 1982, p. 1; Rusden, Australia, iii. 413 seq.