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

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part II. The executive Government

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242 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PART II Columbia the Legislature was dissolved on June 7, 1898, and not again dissolved until April 10, 1900. He denied the statement that legislatures do not divide on party lines and that coalition should have been permitted. It was true that in British Columbia the Dominion party lines were not followed in provincial elections, but there had been a distinct division on party lines in provincial matters in 1898. Mr. Semlin could not have formed a coalition, for though Mr. Semlin moved and carried a motion after his dismissal, ‘ That this House, being fully alive to the great loss, inconvenience, and expense to the country of any interruption of the business of this House at the present time, begs leave to express its regret that His Honour has seen fit to dismiss his advisers, as in the present crisis they have efficient control of the House,’ by a vote of twenty-two to fifteen, yet the leader of the Opposition and his former colleagues with one exception voted against the motion, showing that no coalition had been effected. The delay in holding the general election he justified by the case of the dismissal by Lieutenant-Governor Angers of the Mercier Ministry on December 16, 1891, when the ensuing general election was not held until March 8 following—the time elapsing being much the same as in the case of British Columbia—while no censure had been imposed on Lieutenant- Governor Angers for his action in the matter. He also quoted the circumstances attendant upon the formation of Mr. Pitt’s first administration in 1783. Despite, however, the elaborate explanations furnished by the Lieutenant-Governor, it was decided by the Dominion Government that the Lieutenant-Governor should be dis- missed on the grounds that his action in dismissing his ministers had not been approved by the people of British Columbia, and that in view of recent events in British Colum- bia it was evident that the Government of the Province could not be carried on in the manner contemplated by the constitution under the administration of Mr. McInnes, whose official conduct had been ° subversive of the principles of responsible government ’.

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