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 I. Introductory

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RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT [PART I humanity of handing over the large native population to the uncontrolled management of a legislature composed of those whose habits, interests, and prejudices were so entirely different. He had therefore prepared and introduced into the Legislature a Bill to reduce the two Houses into one, consisting of a nominee president, four persons holding offices of profit under the Crown, and thirty-two elective members. It was the hope of the Governor thus to secure the more effective presentation of the views of the Govern- ment in the Legislature, and to restore the power of the Executive to carry its wishes into law. Lord Granville, on March 24, 1870,! replied, demurring to the Governor’s views of responsible government, and expressing doubt if the change of legislature would effect much strengthening of the Government, and stating that if the Bill were rejected the Colony must face the alternatives laid down in his dispatch of December 9, 1869. Naturally the Bill was rejected in the Lower House by a majority of thirty-four to twenty-six, but in reporting the fact on April 2,% the Governor still pressed for the retention of the troops, urging that in view of the position in Natal the troops must be retained, leaving it for the Colonial Govern- ment to give more adequate power to the Executive. But though the Legislative Assembly supported the Governor by an address to the throne praying for the retention of the troops, the Imperial Government declined to accede to the request, and the Government were told that they must take steps to place the finances in order and to make other provision for Colonial defence. Matters were now complicated by the discovery of dia- monds in territory claimed by the Orange Free State, but on October 172% Lord Kimberley addressed a letter to Sir H. Barkly, who had been chosen to be the new Governor of the Colony, declaring that the existing form of government could not be allowed to continue, and must be replaced by a Crown Colony control or by responsible government. The ! Parl. Pap., H. C. 181, 1870, pp. 18, 26. * Ibid., II, 1870, pp. 3 seq. $ Ibid., C, 459, p. 46. 14

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