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

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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

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Year of publication:: 1912

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Title:: Part III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

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464 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART iui this. It is’ generally provided that in cases of doubt the English procedure shall be followed, but as yet none of the Houses have had occasion to adopt the drastic closure rules of the Imperial Parliament. On the other hand, they might, it seems, be invoked in case of necessity under the clauses in the rules which allow the adoption of the Imperial procedure for the time being in certain cases; and on March 24, 1904, after there had been a hopeless confusion in the Lower House of the Cape Parliament, the Speaker asserted and exercised the right of putting the question on his own authority, following the example of Mr. Speaker Brand on a famous occasion in English history! Threats of action have, however, been made in the direction of closure resolutions in Canada, when, in 1896, the dying Ministry of Sir C. Tupper was endeavouring to obtain supply, in 1908, when the Opposition in the Lower House persistently and successfully blocked operations until the Government had to carry supply by the mere physical exhaustion of all parties to the struggle, and in 1911 in the struggle over reciprocity with the United States, which led to a dissolu- tion.? In September 1910 the closure had to be used to get any work done by the Upper House of New Zealand.3 In certain cases a time limit has been adopted for speeches : the following are the rules in force as given in a parliamentary return 2 of 1908 — There are no rules in force for limiting the length of speeches in the Parliament of the Dominson of Canada or in the Legislatures of Quebec, New Brunswick, M. anttoba, British Columbia, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, and Alberta. Rule No. 30 of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario provides ! The closure was applied on the British analogy by the Speaker in the Assembly on November 15-16, 1909, but was not popular ; see The State of South Africa, ii. 675. Cf. the action of the speaker in New Zealand on Sept. 2, 1881 ; Rusden, iii. 384 seq. * Canadian Annual Review, 1908, pp. 47, 51, 53, 54. * See Sir J. Ward’s speech, September 27, 1910. An amusing cage of objection to forms is seen in the elaborate protest in Western Australia Parliamentary Debates, 1910, p. 2054, against the first reading of Bills in dummy. As a protest against this and other irregularities, as they held, the Labour party deserted the House in a body during the passing of the Redistribution Bill (Act No. 6 of 1911) of 1911. ¢ H. C. 301 (revised).

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