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. vir] CABINET SYSTEM IN DOMINIONS 339 regards the prerogative of mercy by Lord Carnarvon, and acted on, greatly to the annoyance of Lord Glasgow, by his ministers in 1892, when they refused to accept all his sugges- tions that they should resign over the dispute as to the Upper House, and stuck to their posts awaiting the decision of the Secretary of State in their favour! In the later case of Lord Chelmsford in Queensland the party of Mr. Kidston took pride in the fact that they had been more considerate to Lord Chelmsford, and had resigned office so as to avoid placing him in the position of awaiting a decision from home against his ruling in the matter of the proposed appointments to the Upper House. The speeches of the Governor to the Houses of Parliament are matters for his ministers, and he has no responsibility for them. Still, on the other hand, the Governor has the right to ask that he be not compelled to make attacks on the Imperial Government : thus in 1875 the Governor of the Cape insisted on softening the tone of the speech from the throne as regards Lord Carnarvon’s federation policy? In 1897 the Governor of Newfoundland, Sir H. Murray, actually altered in reading a part of the speech, but the references were only to local matters in that case, although he deviated from them, and the local press criticized his action severely.? But in 1908 the speeches in Newfoundland and in Queensland both showed due consideration for the position of the Imperial Government and the Governor respectively, though feeling ran high, in the first case against the Imperial rescript * of 1907 regarding the fisheries,® and in the second case against the Governor’s action in refusing Mr. Kidston’s advice as to the swamping of the Upper House and his grant of a dissolu- tion to Mr. Philp.5 ! See above, chap. vi. * Molteno, Sir John Molteno, ii. 4. 3 Evening Herald, May 13, 1897. ¢ See Parl. Pap., Cd. 3765. * In such circumstances the Governor's private influence could always be properly exercised. It is a fixed rule in England not to use violent terms in the King’s Speech, e.g. the speeches of 1910 and 1911 are models of calmness. )

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