Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 3)

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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:: 1896935311

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-237672

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 3

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

Scope:: XII Seiten, Seiten 1102-1670

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Part V. Imperial control over Dominion administration and legislation

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SHAP. Xx] MILITARY AND NAVAL DEFENCE 1261 was quite irrelevant. After the grant of responsible govern- ment these powers, like every other power, required to be exercised on the principles of ministerial responsibility. The Governor had therefore no inherent right to place the local forces under the control of the Imperial forces, and no exception can be taken to the constitutional position occupied by Mr. Merriman on the principle laid down by Sir J. Molteno. The accusation that commissions were issued in the Governor’s name is met by the statement that the matters done were matters of routine which were not normally submitted at all to the Governor. The question on that point really raises the problem of what matters are matters of routine and what matters are too considerable to be treated in this way, and in any case different opinions may legitimately be held. On the other hand, it must fairly be said for Sir Bartle Frere that his position was a difficult one, for as High Com- missioner he had a general responsibility for relations with native tribes in South Africa, which he could not share with his ministers however gladly he might welcome their advice, and however willingly he might normally accept it. His opinions were therefore entitled to serious considera- tion by his Ministry, and the fact that the country upheld Sir Gordon Sprigg must be placed to his credit in considering the question of the rights and the wrongs in the matter. But it must at once be said that Sir Bartle Frere, both in this and in other matters, was clearly too much inclined to think that, as Governor, he was entitled to make free use of the Imperial troops independently of the wishes of his ministers ; on this point he was repeatedly told by the Imperial Government that the Imperial forces were in the Cape merely for the purposes of defending an Imperial trade route, and that it was not intended that the Cape should be defended either from internal risings or from the attacks of external tribes by the Imperial forces. In the case of the war in South Africa from 1899 to 1902 the Colonial forces assisted readily the Imperial troops, and both in Natal and in the Cape of Good Hope the local troops were placed fully under the control of the Imperial 12793 EY]

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