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

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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

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cHAP. viiI] RELATIONS OF THE HOUSES 601 For these culpable acts the Governor was severely censured by the Secretary of State in a dispatch of November 27, 1865.1 In November the Assembly changed its tactics, and sent up to the Council a Tariff Bill apart from the Appropriation Bill, which was defeated by nineteen votes to five; the ministers then advised the Governor to grant a dissolution, and a general election was held early in 1866. The session was short; it met on February 12 and ended on April 5. The Ministry counted fifty-eight votes in a House of seventy- eight, yet on March 13 the Upper House rejected the tariff again, and the Ministry resigned. Mr. Fellows, the leader of the Opposition, was unable to form a Government, and Mr. McCulloch was asked to remain in office. Parliament was prorogued in order to permit of the reintroduction of the Bill on April 10, and summoned to meet on the 11th. In the new session a conference was held between the two Houses, which resulted in concessions on both sides. The Legislative Council won on matters of form, for the preamble was altered and the duration of the measure was extended, while on their part the Council did not insist on the objections which they had raised to the inclusion in a Bill of Supply of the repeal of the Gold Export Duty, accepting the assurance of the Committee of the Lower House that it was inserted in the Bill ag a tax, and not as territorial revenue. A new Bill was passed, an Appropriation Act legalizing expenditure during 1864-6 became law, and the matter seemed to have ended, but for the recall of Sir Charles Darling by the Imperial Government. Sir Charles Darling had acted illegally and unwisely, but his recall was the source of much trouble and confusion. He had written a very foolish dispatch on December 23, 18652 to the Secretary of State relating to a petition which had been addressed to him by twenty-two ex-members of the Cabinet, who were still of course, as is usual in Victoria, members of the Executive Council. His dispatch, among other things, said, ‘ It is at least to be hoped that the future course of political events may never designate any of them for the Sec above, pp. 259 seq. # Parl. Pap., March 1866, pp. 77 seq.

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