Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

Bibliographic data

Multivolume work

Identifikator:: 1896933912

Document type:: Multivolume work

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

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Volume

Identifikator:: 1896935052

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-238139

Document type:: Volume

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

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

Chapter

Document type:: Multivolume work

Structure type:: Chapter

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

Collection:: Economics Books

CHAP. viii] RELATIONS OF THE HOUSES 623 claim which he put forward, while the offer made to him was sufficient to meet any claim arising from any misunder- standing regarding the permanency of his employment. In replying on February 21, 1879,! the Secretary of State said that he had been unable to advise Her Majesty in respect to the prayer of Mr. Gordon’s petition, it being one which lay within the jurisdiction of the Governor and Executive Council. Mr. Berry, on arrival in England, addressed the Secretary of State on February 26, 18792 in a letter in which he criticized the Secretary of State’s dispatch of October 1, 1878,% expressing his views that no cause had been shown for the intervention of the Imperial Parliament. He said that, in view of the position taken up by the Council, which would make no concession, Her Majesty’s Government would no doubt be willing to interpose to solve the difficulties which were otherwise arising. He also made representations to the Secretary of State, who indicated his decision on the whole question on May 3, 1879.4 to the Marquess of Normanby. In that dispatch he declined to propose Imperial legislation ; he considered that there was no desire in the Colony to reduce the Council to a sham and give the Assembly a com- plete practical supremacy, uncontrolled even by the sense of sole responsibility which might exert a beneficial influence on the action of a single Chamber. He pointed out that the difficulties had arisen with regard to finance, but this difficulty would not arise if the two Houses of Victoria were guided in this matter, as in others, by the practice of the Imperial Parliament, the Council following the practice of the House of Lords and the Assembly that of the House of Commons. The Assembly, like the House of Commons, would claim and in practice exercise the right of granting aids and supplies to the Crown, of limiting the matter, manner, measure, and time of such grants, and of so framing Bills of Supply that these rights * Parl. Pap., C. 2339, p. 13. Cf. Mr. Gaunt’s case, C. 2173, pp. 78, 84. Ibid., p. 13, ¢ Parl. Pap., C. 2217, p. 20. ! Parl, Pap., C. 2339, p. 20. Cf. South Australia Assembly Debates. 1911, p. 103

Access restriction

Copyright

fullscreen: Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

Multivolume work

Volume

Chapter

Table of contents

Download

Volume

Chapter

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation