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-

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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:: Part V. Imperial control over dominion administration and legislation // Chapter IV. The immigration of coloured races

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oHAP. Iv] IMMIGRATION OF COLOURED RACES 1089 unreservedly the free right of immigration given, though the danger was pointed out by the Imperial Government.! Things went smoothly until 1907, when the influx of Japanese due to inducements held out by steamship companies and to an exodus from Hawaii through the rivalry of Portuguese labour, lead to a riot in Vancouver in September, in which a good deal of damage to property was done, which the Dominion Government at once made good. But Mr. Lemieux was sent to Japan, and with the Ambassador’s aid nego- tiated a treaty for a more restricted immigration from Japan, and since then, January 1908, there has been no fresh trouble.?2 Canada has decided not to adhere to the new treaty of 1911 with Japan, but the two countries have agreed to give each other for two years, pending a special negotiation, most favoured nation treatment; the arrangement as te immigration being unaffected. In 1908 the British Columbia Immigration Act (c. 23) was questioned in the Courts before it could be disallowed and pronounced void alike as regards Japanese and British Indians; in 1907 the Lieutenant- Governor had declined to assent to the Bill. In the case of British Indians the riot was due to the influx of such Indians from Hong Kong. It was found necessary to use the powers of the Government under the Immigration Acts of 1906 and 1908 to impose a property qualification of twenty-five and later two hundred dollars, and to insist on the possession of through tickets from India, a plan which has reduced the immigration to reasonable limits.3 But protests have been made against the prohibition by which Indians are denied the franchise in British Columbia. ! See the summary in Canadian Annual Review, 1907, pp. 382-98 ; Act 6 & 7 Bdw. VII, c. 50; in re Nakane and Okazake, 13 B. C. 370; in +e Behari Lal et al., ibid., 415. * See House of Commons Debates, 1907-8, pp. 694-753, 2025-159. ' Mr. Mackenzie King negotiated with the Indian Government and the [mperial Government on the matter in 1908, and reported on his mission to the Dominion Parliament; Parl. Pap., Cd. 4118. See Act 9 & 10 Edw. VIL c. 27, ss. 37, 38. ¢ Upheld by the Privy Council in Cunningham v. Tomey Homma, [1903] A. C. 157, in the case of a Japanese. Cf. Parl. Pap., Cd. 5745, op. 407, 408; 5746-1, pp. 279-8L. 12792 Mm

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