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

Volume count:: Vol. 1

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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190 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PART II Parliament on. the assumption that the advice would not be acceded to. In one case the advice was not taken, in the other it was—to the great dismay of the Government. This was specially a case in which there should be some superior and calmer authority to determine whether a dissolution were necessary or not. To adopt any other rule would introduce grave constitutional changes and would diminish to a very great extent one of the powers of the Crown. On the other hand, Sir William Fitzherbert, one of the repre- sentatives of New Zealand, was strongly of opinion that the responsibility of ministers in this respect should be complete. Sir Robert Wisdom, however, on behalf of New South Wales, considered that the proposal was quite im- proper ; no inconvenience had attended the refusal of the Governor to accept advice except the inconvenience to the Ministry tendering the advice, and the public had never suffered so far as he knew by the refusal of the Governor to grant a dissolution; the opinion of Sir Ambrose Shea, on behalf of Newfoundland, was evidently against the idea, and no action was taken accordingly as the result of the discussion. The year 1899 saw the curious feature of three refusals of dissolution of Parliament by Colonial Governors in Australia. On September 7, 1899, Mr. Reid was defeated on a vote arising out of a personal matter—the payment of an allowance to a commissioner—and asked Lord Beauchamp for a dissolution, which was not accorded, doubtless because there was no real public issue at stake and Mr. Lyne was ready and able to form a Ministry to carry on Mr. Reid’s own plans. On November 28 Mr. Kingston was defeated in the South Australian House of Assembly, was refused by Lord Tennyson a dissolution, resigned, and was succeeded by Mr. Solomon, who, however, had to resign in a few days, when Sir F. Holder, treasurer in Mr. Kingston’s Ministry, took office for a couple of years. On December 1 Sir G. Turner was defeated in the Victoria Legislative Assembly, and Lord Brassey refused him a dissolution, Mr. Allan McLean being sent for and holding office for nearly a year.! + See Quick and Garran, Constitution of Commonwealth, p. 464 ; South

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