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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cuAP. vi] GOVERNOR AS IMPERIAL OFFICER 297 under protest! And it may be noted that when in 1908 the Imperial Government was at variance with the Natal Government, both on the question of the Indemnity Bill and the payment of Dinuzulu’s salary, which the Natal Government had stopped but which the Imperial Govern- ment on legal advice admitted themselves liable to pay, the Natal Government did not resign.? In connexion with the latter issue it may be interesting to quote remarks of Mr. Evans, M.L.A. of Natal, who wrote as follows :— 3 If the Natal Government on the advice of their law officers thought the salary should have been suspended or withdrawn, the first thing to do was to obtain the approval of the Secretary of State. If, as was the case, the Secretary of State on the advice of his law officers objected, the Natal Government should have entered a dignified protest and continued to pay it. Had they done so the dignity of the Colony would not have suffered, and all this unrest and recrimination, making Natal a by-word among the British people, would have been avoided. That we are regarded as hopelessly in the wrong by the British people is evident by the fact that both parties in the House of Commons, those usually regarded as our friends as well as those deemed our critics, are at one, Earl Crewe and Mr. Lyttelton, Sir Gilbert Parker and Colonel Seely. This is the first time I remember this to have happened, and surely it should give us pause. Naturally disputes between the Colonial and Imperial Governments are grave and serious things, but the unity of the Empire is more serious still. If there disappears a power which has the theoretic and practical right, subject to the duty of the fullest consultation, to conclude treaties and to legislate and so forth for the Empire at large, it will be harder to recreate it if the growth of the power of the Dominions causes them to ask for a Federal Government. 1 See Parl. Pap., Cd. 3765 ; Canadian Annual Review, 1907, pp. 328, 329, 365. * See Parl. Pap., Cd. 4194, 4328. 3 Parl. Pap., Cd. 4328, p. 77. Cf. also Sir C. Dilke in Hansard, Ser. 4, exe, 113-5.

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