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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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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328 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [part TI rigidly followed in Australia or even in Canada. Tt is recog- nized that with a small House and with Colonial conditions of independence it is not a serious matter to be defeated in some matter not of the very first-rate importance. Thus in the tariff debates of 1907-8 the Government of Mr. Deakin was on several occasions defeated in the Lower House without in any way being compelled to resign its position, even after the Minister of Trade and Customs had declared certain of the amendments of vital importance ; apparently the party understood that the Treasurer was only bluffing, for they did not obey his hints to vote solid. Even the Labour Ministry of 1910 suffered without resigning a defeat on the question of eligibility for entrance to the military college. On the other hand a Ministry may be disposed to insist on having the full confidence of the party ; thus in 1909, when the vote for a special payment to Mr. Pember Reeves, late High Commissioner, on account of his services as financial adviser to the Government, was placed before the Lower House in New Zealand and was rejected, the Prime Minister lost no time in calling together a meeting of his followers and insisting that they should rescind the vote, which they did, but they felt no doubt that they had achieved their purpose by inducing the officer in question to give up the position of financial adviser in London.: In all the Australian states and in New Zealand and in the Canadian provinces there have been cases of ministries which cling to office despite repeated defeats, or defeats averted only by casting votes of the Speaker ; for example, Sir George Grey’s Ministry in New Zealand probably, as Lord N ormanby remarked in a dispatch in 1878, never commanded a majority in the Lower House at all. Mr. Joly’s Ministry in Quebec lasted from 1878 to 1879 on the most insecure basis, with practically no support in the Lower House and with a decided majority against it in the Upper House.? The Ministry in British Columbia in 1899-1900 was helpless, and was defeated on several occasions, but would not resign until the Lieutenant-Governor decided " New Zealand Parl. Pap., 1878, A. 1, p. 3. Parl. Pap., C. 2445.

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