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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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

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Title:: Part III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

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CHAP. V] THE PRIVILEGES AND PROCEDURE 469 The Presidents and Speakers are all paid salaries as are Chairmen of Committees, and so hold office until successors are appointed : in all cases they hold office until they resign or are removed by a vote of the House in which they preside, or by the Governor in those cases in which the appointment rests in his hands. The post of Speaker is not by convention a permanent one as in England : it is always open to elect a new Speaker for a new Parliament. Each House has its officers, who are not ordinary public servants,and who in some cases can only be removed by a special process. In Victoria in 1910 a dispute arose because the Governor in Council declined to accept the recommendation of the President of the Legislative Council for an appointment, and in revenge the Upper House adjourned for a week as a mode of protest. The curious position of the Speaker or President is exem- plified by the difference in procedure between the Parliaments of certain States and the procedure in the United Kingdom. The British practice is normally followed on the meeting of a new Parliament, but in Tasmania the practice of issuing a com- mission prior to the election of a President was abandoned in 1884, and the position laid down that the election should take place before any communication from the throne was made. This plan is generally followed in Canada also as regards the Speaker.! One point regarding the Legislatures is of interest, namely the fact that owing to their small size the Speaker has had on several occasions to give a casting vote. The principles on which he should give such a vote cannot be said to be in any way fixed : in the case of a vote of non-confidence in minis- ters in 1877 the Speaker of the House of Assembly of South Australia gave his vote against the Ministry on the ground which hedeclared healways followed, not to support a Ministry which was not in a majority when a vote of non-confidence was moved against it.2 On the other hand, in the same year Sir George Grey’s Ministry was upheld in New Zealand by a vote of the Speaker in the case of a similar motion, a step ! Of. Munro, Constitution of Canada, pp. 47, 112. See Tasmania Parl, Pap., 1909, No. 14. The Assembly follows the older usage. * House of Assembly Votes, 1877, p. 236 ; cf. ibid., 1871, p. 226.

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