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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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Identifikator:: 1896934455

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

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: LI, 568 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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L176 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PARTI expressed in strong but courteous terms at the action of the Governor in declining to accept the advice of the leader of the then Government to take steps to secure that the Upper House should yield to the wishes of the Lower House as regards legislation. The Governor refused, and on the resignation of the Ministry as a result of his action sent for Mr. Philp, the leader of the Opposition in the House, who book upon himself the formation of the Ministry, though the Lower House refused him its confidence and protested against being dissolved. The general elections went hope- lessly against the new Government, which did not obtain more than a third of the House, and it had to resign, where- upon the new Government addressed a remonstrance to the Governor especially on the ground that his action had taken place without the grant of supply, and had hindered the progress of important public works which were needed for the development of the state. The Governor’s action was very freely criticized in the House in the debate, as it had been in the country during the campaign, where some members turned the election into an onslaught upon His Excellency, but the Government had no desire to go further with the matter, and the Governor, in acknowledging the address, merely promised to send it on to the Secretary of State. This action terminated the matter, as no reply from the Secretary of State was ever published! Similarly in 1908 an attempt was made to disapprove the action of the Governor of Victoria, Sir Thomas Carmichael, because of his decision in giving a dissolution in the previous year to Sir Thomas Bent. The Governor, at the request of the House, submitted to the Parliament a statement of the reasons for his action, and the matter then terminated. In none of these cases did the Governor seriously suffer in reputation from the attempted censure, but it is of course clear that had his action in any case been seriously at fault the Imperial Government would have terminated the employment of an officer whose utility would have been gone. There are two cases in the Dominion of Canada where * Queensland Parliamentary Debates, ci. 38 seq., 60seq., 88 seq., 122 seq.

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