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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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

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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 51 in the interests of the natives, free from all parliamentary control. But in any case a general election must precede any thought of granting responsible government. Such an election held in 1890 * resulted in the appointment of fourteen members in favour of and ten against responsible govern- ment, the majority representing the coast and the border districts, where the Boer influence prevailed, and the minority coming from Pietermaritzburg and Umvoti. A Bill was accordingly drafted by a committee to establish responsible government, which made provision for a legis- lature of two houses, the upper nominee, for a permanent Under-Secretary for Native Affairs, and for the provision of an annual sum for native purposes. It was also provided that Bills affecting only a class of the population must be Passed by a two-thirds majority on the second reading and third reading in the Legislative Assembly. The Government was to be administered by six ministers, and the constitution of the houses could only be altered by the concurrence of an absolute majority for the time being of the members of both houses on the second and third readings. Provision was also made for pensions to officers retiring on political grounds.? The Bill was, however, altered in the Council 80 as to substitute one for two houses. It also pur- ported to transfer to the Government of the day all the Powers of the Governor as Supreme Chief of the natives, which he had exercised hitherto without any control what- ever. Native interests were to be protected by reservation of bills for the royal assent and by preliminary consideration by a committee of the Legislative Council. The Governor, in sending home the Bill,2 deprecated the proposal for a single chamber, as affording risk of hasty legislation, considered that he should be left free to refuse, if he thought fit, ministerial advice as to his action as Supreme Chief, though he would as a rule accept it, leaving ministers in case of differ- ence to initiate legislation to effect their ends, which legisla- tion would be reserved for the royal assent. He doubted if the provision for the natives was adequate, but he thought ' Parl. Pap., C. 6487, p- 25. * Tbid., pp. 28 seq. * Ibid., pp. 36 seq. "no

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