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. vI] GOVERNOR AS IMPERIAL OFFICER 289 resolve itself gradually as the growth of power of the Dominions renders them less liable to the defects of weak- ness : the fact that Canada respects the obligations of treaties as religiously as the Imperial Government itself is indeed of good augury for the future of the Empire.l In 1859 the Government of Canada in a reasoned memoran- dum raised and discussed the question whether the Imperial Government could continue in any way to dictate the financial policy of Canada without at the same time taking upon itself the Government of Canada, and the rebuke which was effective was not unjustified.? Clearly, if a country is to be governed the Government must have in their hands the control of fiscal matters, and the Colonial Office itself claims for itself, in all Crown Colonies in which it can, the power over the final financial arrangements of the Colony, however ready and willing it may be to consent to the Colony exercising full legislative power in other. regards. In 1872 there was a dispute in Tasmania as to a pardon given by the Governor on the advice of his ministers to Louisa Hunt, and the Ministry were defeated on the question of their advice in both Houses of the Parliament, but they did not resign because they held that this was not a matter in which the final responsibility rested with them, so that they did not regard the votes as really being censures of them.* In 1878 the case of Sir Bartle Frere in the Cape of Good Hope raised serious difficulties. In that year the Cape was in great trouble with two Kaffir wars on hand, and the Governor wished in his capacity of High Commissioner to concert operations between the two forces, the Imperial troops on the one hand and the Colonial forces on the other. But his Ministry, who were anxious to avoid Imperial ! See a Japanese view in Canadian Annual Review, 1907, pp. 393 seq. The same tone pervades the Japanese complaints to the Canadian Govern- ment against British Columbian legislation in 1898-1904, ¢ Parl. Pap., H. C. 400, 1864. * See the case of Jamaica, Parl. Pap., C. 9147, 9412, 9413 ; Cd. 125. ! Tasmania Legislative Council Journals, 1878, Nos. 35 and 36. But in 1888 Sir T. M°Ilwraith resigned over a question of the prerogative; see also New Zealand Parl. Pap., 1891, Sess. 2, pp. 4, 5, 19, 20. 1279 -

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