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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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 II. The executive Government

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cHAP. 111] THE GOVERNOR AND MINISTERS 177 a Lieutenant-Governor has been recalled because of his disobedience to what the Dominion Government consider bhe rules of responsible government. In the first case, Mr. Luc Letellier was recalled in 1878 from the Province of Quebec because he had in the exercise of his discretion dismissed a Ministry which had still a majority in the Lower House, and summoned another Government, which on dissolution was only sustained by a narrow majority. He had been censured by the two Houses of the Dominion Parliament for his conduct by a strict party vote, as he was an adherent of the Liberal Ministry which was defeated by Sir John Macdonald. Much later, in 1900, the Liberal Government of the day recalled one of its own supporters because he had dismissed % Ministry which had a majority, if an uneasy one, in the Legislature, and had ruled for some months with a Ministry of which only one member had a seat in the Legislature, which had no real following in the country, and which had delayed the holding of a session of the Legislature as long as possible so as to secure its position.? Not only is the Governor open to criticism by the Colonial Parliament, but he is subject to it from the Imperial Parlia- ment as well. Early in the history of responsible government the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia was condemned by a section in the Imperial Parliament for his action in permitting the retirement of the provincial Treasurer, as a result of the introduction of responsible government, without securing for him full compensation.? The principles of respon- sible government were then energetically supported by Earl Grey, and no censure was passed. The conduct of Sir C. Darling in the case of the Victorian disputes between the two Houses of Parliament in 1866 was very severely canvassed in Parliament,? and on March 25, 1879, a deliberate attempt was made by the Opposition in the Imperial Parliament to censure the Government and Sir Bartle Frere for his action in declaring war against the Zulu king without instructions ' Parl. Pap., C. 2445. ? Canada Sess. Pap., 1900, No. 174, * House of Lords, March 26, 1849 ; Hansard, ciii, 1262-89. ' House of Commons, March 20, 1866 ; Hansard, clxxxii. 621 ; cxci. 1976. 1970

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