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

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832 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PARTI It was suggested in the correspondence before the passing of the Constitution by Sir Napier Broome,! the Governor of Western Australia, that provision should be made to prevent tacking on the one hand, and on the other to obviate con- stitutional deadlocks. But Sir Napier Broome’s suggestion, which was by no means a bad one, and which would seem to have been dictated by common sense, was not viewed with favour either by the Secretary of State for the Colonies 2 or by the Committee of the Legislative Council of the time, which was engaged in the study of the proposed Constitution, and the Constitution as it was issued contained no provisions on the subject, beyond the provision that appropriation and tax Bills must originate in the Legislative Assembly and that money votes. or Bills must be recommended by the Governor. Things remained comparatively in a satisfactory con- dition so long as the Upper Chamber was nominee, as was provided in the Act for the first six years, or until the population of the Colony attained 60,000 souls; but when the Legislative Council was appointed it was at once pro- vided by the Act of 1893 3 that in the case of a proposed Bill which, according to law, must have originated in the Assem- bly, the Legislative Council might at any stage return it to the Assembly with a message requesting the omission or amendment of any items or provisions, and the Legislative Assembly might, if it thought fit, return such omissions or amendments with or without alterations. The Legislative Council has not hesitated to exercise this right, as indeed it is entitled to do, and it has maintained a close control over legislation.t so that the t See Parl. Pap., C. 5743, pp. 15, 36. He wished the Lower House after a period of eight months to be able to pass a Bill over the head of the Upper House—a drastic anticipation of the Imperial Parliament Act, 1911. * Parl. Pap., C. 5743, pp. 25, 26. Sir H. Holland preferred a nominee Upper House, which would in other matters have co-ordinate authority with the Lower House, but give way on money matters, as in Queensland. * 57 Vict. No. 14, s. 23, repeated in 63 Vict. No. 19, 8. 46. See Parlia- mentary Debates, iv. 621. The Council cannot insist on a request: see Parliamentary Debates, xxx. 3020, and cf. xxix. 1125, ¢ Compare its action in 1907 over the Land and Income Tax Bill. which it

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