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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cap. vir] CABINET SYSTEM IN DOMINIONS 309 his retirement seems to have been thought generally to have been unnecessary, as far as constitutional practice went. Moreover his successor proceeded at once to repudiate the arrangements made by his predecessor for settling the eternal question of the finances of the Commonwealth, and adopted and proposed a new scheme of his own, a proceeding which could hardly happen in the United Kingdom, where the Prime Minister would have accepted the responsibility for the settlement with the states, and would not have allowed the promise of the Ministry to be violated by the change in its personnel! In 1910 the Minister for Mines in Victoria openly stated that he had fought the Cabinet over the sale of coal from the state mines to the public, and had won his way. There is undoubtedly in the Colonies a certain lack of definite coherence and loyalty among ministers, but there are exceptions; in the Dominion? of Canada, the personality of Sir John Macdonald and of Sir Wilfrid Laurier won for them a position of command similar to that attained by the Prime Minister in the United Kingdom. In New Zealand and Newfoundland Mr. Seddon and Sir J. Ward and Sir R. Bond and Sir E. Morris have been able to create Govern- ments essentially dependent on themselves, but these cases are exceptional, and the rule of Sir R. Bond was finally over- thrown by dissension from within, one of his chief lieutenants having come to the conclusion that it was impossible for Sir R. Bond and himself to co-operate in one Ministry. The matter of dispute was curious : it took its origin in regard to an order to increase the pay of men working on the roads, for which the Premier claimed that he must obtain the credit, while Sir E. Morris claimed that it was his act—clearly a declaration of revolt, since all the acts of the Cabinet must be regarded as approved and allowed by the Prime Minister * Cf. reports of the Premiers’ Conference in Brisbane of May 1907, and of Melbourne in May 1908, and see New South Wales Parliamentary Debates, 1908, pp. 970 seq., especially at p. 991. * In Ontario Sir O. Mowat held office as Premier for twenty-four years. Mr. McBride in British Columbia, Mr. Roblin in Manitoba. and Mr. Fielding in Nova Scotia are other examples.

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