Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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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:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 2

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XI Seiten, Seiten 570-1100

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Title:: Chapter VIII. The constitutional relations of the houses

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574 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART III not insist on making a change, and as a matter of fact ab that time the principle of limitation was still maintained. But it could not permanently be kept in force, and it broke down practically in 1888, when the Ministry of the day appointed, with Lord Carrington’s permission, in ten months, twenty-two members. Lord Carrington was deemed by Sir C. Dilke to have been too devoted to the theory of ministerial responsibility. A protest against the appointments by the Opposition members of the Council and others was sent to the Governor, but no favourable reply was returned. This really ended the controversy, and if Mr. (now Sir G.) Reid was refused an increase in September, 1894, he dissolved Parliament, was returned to power, and was allowed subsequently to make appointments; he carried his land-tax proposals by the fact that it was known that the Governor was prepared to add members to the Upper House if needed to carry the day, while in 1899 again federation was carried by the addition to the Upper House of twelve members. So in 1908 Mr. Wade received a large increase of members, though such increase was not needed to carry measures, and indeed in 1909 the Upper House amended in very material particulars the governmental proposals for closer settlement by the compulsory division of private lands,? while in 1900 and 1901 it rejected women’s suffrage Acts, and yielded in 1902 mainly because the Federal Parlia- ment had bestowed the suffrage on women. It rejected an Income Tax Bill in 1893, and in 1895 a Land and Income Tax Assessment Bill. In 1910 a proposal was brought forward by the Govern- ment of Mr. Wade that the Upper House should be given a more definite and effective position in the Parliament by limiting its numbers to some definite figure, say half the 1 A proposalin 1876 to make the Upper House elective was necatived in the Lower House, very wisely. 2 The situation is incorrectly stated by Jenkyns, British Rule and Juris- diction beyond the Seas, p. 67; Parl. Pap., H. C. 70, 1889, p. 43. * See the attack of the Labour party in Parliamentary Debates, 1908. Sess. 2, pp. 79 seq. 4 Qee Parliamentary Debates, 1909, pp. 4305 seq.

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