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-

Collection:: Economics Books

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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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590 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART III nothing to protect provincial interests, but that it was less partisan than the Lower House. On the other hand, Sir R. Cartwright in the Senate pressed for an elective senate and for further work ;1 more Bills to be originated there, and under-secretaries to sit there, the number of ministers to be limited accordingly. Harmony 2is again prevalent, thanks to the long adminis- tration of the Liberal Government, fifty senators, Conserva- tives, having died and been replaced by Liberals since 1896, and there is certainly no desire in Canada for any House which should seriously interfere with the powers of the existing House of Commons. Provision is contained in the British North America Act under which, if at any time on the recommendation of the Governor-General the King thinks fit to direct that three or six members be added to the Senate, the Governor-General may by summons to three or six qualified persons, as the case may be, representing equally the three divisions of Canada (that is Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces), add to the Senate accordingly. But in the case of such addition being at any time made the Governor-General shall not summon any person to the Senate except on a further like direction from the King on the like recommendation, until each of the three divisions of Canada is represented by twenty-four Senators and no more. This provision has never been exercised, and it has been actually laid down, on the one occasion when its use was suggested in Mr. Mackenzie's administration, that it is a power which is only intended to be used on a very extraordinary occasion, when parties are nearly equal, to bring about a settlement of some important dispute. In that case the application made, which was due to the great disparity between the two ' Senate Debates, 1911, pp. 252 seq. * For a case of an important amendment cf. House of Commons Debates, 1909, pp. 6444 seq. It is said to have rejected ninety-seven Bills since federation, and Mr. Lancaster, in his attack on it on January 30, 1911, asserted that it had blocked a railway Bill to compel railways to protect level crossings for seven years, and eventually only accepted it in a mutilated form.

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