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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604 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [paRTIiL dispatches, ministers resigned and the Governor tried to fill their places ; when the time came to meet Parliament the difficulties of the position were obvious. Ministers who were merely holding office pending the appointment of their successors could hardly prepare a speech. Accordingly for two months, whenever the House met, there was merely a motion for adjournment, Mr. Higinbotham acting as leader in the House in the illness of Mr. McCulloch. At length, on May 6, a Ministry was formed under Mr. Sladen, who accepted office only in order that Her Majesty’s Government might be carried on, but two of the seven ministers were defeated on trying to obtain re-election. Mr. Fellows served in May as Minister of Justice and leader in the Assembly. During June Mr. Fellows offered to introduce the Darling grant as a separate Bill, and it appears that the Upper House would have accepted it in that form, when the news came that Sir Charles Darling had re-entered the public service. It seemed that Sir Charles Darling had not understood that it was open to him to remain in that service, and though he did not receive a further appointment a pension of £1,000, dated from October 24, 1866, was given. He died in January 1870 at Cheltenham, and immediately on the news of his death being received both Houses passed a Bill conferring a pension of £1,000 a year on Lady Darling, to- gether with a sum of £5,000 for the education of her children. Mr. Higinbotham was deeply disappointed at the result, for his heart was in the defeat of the Upper Chamber, which he was not destined to see accomplished in his lifetime. His indignation vented itself in his famous speech in 18692 protesting against Imperial interference in the affairs of the Colony, and in the resolution against that interference which he carried in that year. But he was unable to secure any sub- stantial renewal of the attack on the Upper House, and ulti- mately he abandoned politics for the judicial bench, to emerge nearly twenty years later in disputes with the Colonial Office. In 1877 the dispute between the two Houses of Victoria ' Parl, Pap., June 1868, pp. 8 seq. * See Morris, Memoirs of George Higinbotham, pp. 160-89.

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