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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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over dominion administration and legislation // Chapter II. Imperial control over the inernal affairs of the dominions

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1042 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [rarTV had not been an issue at the election of 1897, and that as a matter of fact the contract and the Bill were rushed through the Houses of Parliament without full consideration and opportunity for protest. Moreover, a very discreditable fact shortly came to light : the Governor ascertained that the member of his Council who was most active in pushing the Bill through the Legislature was also the paid legal adviser of the contractor for the line, Mr. Reid. The Governor then called upon the minister to resign all his offices save that of Queen’s Counsel, and the minister in question did so, as he did not wish to remain a member of the Executive Council if his presence there were distasteful to the Governor.l To all these representations the Secretary of State replied declining to disallow the Act for reasons which are set out at length in the dispatch of December 5, 1898, which follows, and which it is desirable to give in full, for it epitomizes the precise duty of the Imperial Government in regard to Colonial legislation, and while it added theoretically no new principle to those by which Secretaries of State had long been guided, it applied an old principle in circumstances which formerly would probably have been deemed to exclude the ordinary rules because of the manifest gross impropriety of the Act in question. The dispatch runs: 2— I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your dispatch of October 6, forwarding copies of the resolutions passed at a public meeting of the inhabitants of St. John’s on October 4, urging that Her Majesty should be advised, either to disallow the Act passed in the recent session of the Legislature of Newfoundland to give effect to the contract with Mr. Reid, or that, in any case, I should defer tendering advice to Her Majesty in regard to the Act, until the people of the Colony have had an opportunity of expressing their views on the question at a general election. 2. I have also received your dispatches of the dates noted in the margin, covering further petitions and resolutions to the same effect from different parts of the Colony, as well as a memorandum by the ° Citizens’ Committee’ of ! See Parl. Pap., C. 9137. ? Ibid., pp. 26 seq. ' Of October 13. 27, 27. 29, November 10, 12, and 17, 1898.

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