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:: Chapter VIII. The constitutional relations of the houses

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cHAP. viii] RELATIONS OF THE HOUSES 605 came very violently to the front. The Governor, Sir George Bowen, reported in a telegram of the 19th of September that his ministers proposed to place on the estimates the payment of members, as in Newfoundland and Canada. The Governor desired to know whether he was prohibited by the dispatch from the Secretary of State of the lst of January, 18682 from consenting to this proposal; if he were prohibited a collision between the Imperial Government and the House of Assembly was probably inevitable. In replying on September 27, Lord Carnarvon authorized the Governor to follow the advice of his ministers. In a dispatch of September 193 the Governor explained the situation at greater length: payment of members had been in force since 1871 under temporary Acts, and his Government proposed to regard the principle as the estab- lished law and to place a sum on the annual estimates to provide for the expenses of members. The Governor was of opinion that he should consent to this course, and he thought that a clear distinction could be drawn between the case in question and the proposed grant to Lady Darling, which formed the subject of the dispatch of January 1, 1868. The publication of that dispatch had caused the resigna- tion of the then Prime Minister, Sir James McCulloch and his colleagues, on the ground that the Secretary of State had attempted an unconstitutional interference with the principle of self-government as conceded to Victoria by the Queen and the Imperial Parliament. An address had been carried to the Assembly on the 4th of June 1868, in which the Governor had been informed that the dispatch suggesting that the vote to Lady Darling should not be recommended, except on the clear understanding that the grant would be brought before the Legislative Council in a particular form, was a violation of the constitutional rights of the Legislative Assembly and a dangerous infringement of the fundamental principles of the system of responsible government. Lord Canterbury had been unable to form * Parl. Pap., C. 1982, p. 1. * Purl. Pap., H. C. 157, 1868, p. 49, ' Parl. Pap., C, 1982, p. 1; Rusden, Australia, iii. 413 seq.

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