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

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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

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624 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART III should be maintained inviolate; and as it would refrain from annexing to a Bill of Aid or Supply any clause or clauses of a nature foreign to or different from the matter of such a Bill, so the Council would refrain from any steps so injurious to the public service as the rejection of an Appropriation Bill. He considered that it would be advis- able if the two Houses would arrange this by some mutual understanding, but it might be found necessary either to adopt a joint standing order, as was proposed in 1867, or to legislate. The former course would be more convenient, but even the clearest definition would not suffice to prevent collisions unless interpreted with that discretion and mutual forbearance which has been so often exemplified in the history of the Imperial Parliament. He did not think that any proposals with regard to over- coming the deadlocks in ordinarylegislation were satisfactory, and he hoped that the Council of Victoria would recognize its constitutional position and so transact its business that the wishes of the people, as clearly and repeatedly expressed, should ultimately prevail. But if both parties would not accept a solution, he considered Imperial intervention as only probable if the Council should refuse to concur with the Assembly in some reasonable proposal for regulating the future relations of the two Houses in financial matters, in accordance with the precedent of the Imperial Parliament, and should persist in such refusal after the proposals of the Assembly for that purpose had been ratified by the country on an appeal being made to the constituencies. Mr. Berry then introduced a Bill to make the Upper House nominee with a provision for a referendum as to deadlocks in general legislation. But on the third reading the Bill failed to obtain an absolute majority in the Assembly, and the Ministry was defeated at the general election of February 1880. It regained office at the election of July, and in 1881 the franchise was lowered, the property qualification reduced, the number of members increased to 42, and the period of service of Councillors shortened from ten to six years. In 1908 a certain further measure of concession was made *

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