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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588 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART III Dominion it was agreed that it should not be perpetuated, and the Upper House was accordingly made a nominee body. As a nominee body it has failed, as every Upper House in North America has failed, to command the respect of the people! Certain differences of opinion arose between the two Houses when Sir John Macdonald’s Ministry went out of office in 1873, and the Liberal Opposition came into power with only seven members, of whom three were doubtful, in the Senate ; for example, the two Houses took different views as to the conduct of Mr. Luc Letellier de St. Just, the Lieutenant-Governor of Quebec, in 1878, and the proposal for the building of the Esquimalt-Nanaimo Railway.2 Harmony was restored by the recovery of power by Sir John Macdonald in 1878, and the amicable relations of the two Houses were not disturbed until the defeat of Macdonald’s successor in 1896, when the strong disparity between the two Houses became obvious, the Senate con- sisting almost entirely of members nominated? at one time or another by Sir John Macdonald, as was inevitable in view of the facts that he had twice held office and that senators were nominated for life. In 1897 and 1898 there was some friction ; several Bills were altered against the wish of the Lower House, the Bills for an extension of the intercolonial railway to Montreal and for a railway to the Klondike were rejected * and a redistribution measure was blocked. Pro- posals for reconstructing the Upper House on an elective basis have been aired from time to time, and the former Secretary of State for the Dominion, Sir Richard Scott, on going out of ministerial office introduced a Bill into the Senate to secure its reform.> No serious step, however, t Goldwin Smith, Canada, pp. 163 seq. ! Canada Sess. Pap., 1876, No. 41, p. 2. * On strictly party lines: Sir J. Macdonald only once, it is said. nominated a Liberal, and Sir W. Laurier never a Conservative. * See Senate Debates, 1897, pp. 735 seq. ; 1898, pp. 280 seq. * See a summary of the 1908 debates in Canadian Annual Review, 1908, pp. 34-6 ; House of Commons Debates, 1909, p. 1473. It was discussed at great length again in 1910, see Debates, 1909-10, pp. 2040 seq., and in 1911, Debates 1910-1, pp. 2738 seq. ; Review, 1910, pp. 255, 256.

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