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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1120 ADMINISTRATION AND LEGISLATION [PART V powers whose treaty rights might be affected. This principle was fully accepted by Canada in respect of the French Con- ventions of 1907 and 1909, and similarly in respect of the concessions made to Germany, the United States, and Italy in 1910, and proposed to the United States in 1911. (2) Further, His Majesty’s Government regard it as essential that any tariff concession conceded by a Dominion to a foreign power should be extended to the United King- dom, and to the rest of His Majesty’s Dominions. It is clear that no Dominion would wish to afford to foreign nations better treatment than it accords to the rest of the Empire of which it forms a part. For example, when informal discus- sions with a view to commercial arrangements between the Dominion of Canada and the United States were conducted in 1892, the Dominion Government declined to agree that Canada should discriminate against the products and manu- factures of the United Kingdom, and on this ground the negotiations were broken off! Similarly, when Newfound- land in 1890 had made preliminary arrangements for a con- vention with the United States which would have accorded preferential treatment to that power,? Her Majesty’s Govern- ment acknowledged the force of the protest made by Canada, and when the Newfoundland Government proposed to pass legislation to grant the concession stipulated for by the United States, the Secretary of State in a dispatch of March 26, 1892, informed the Dominion Government that they might rest assured ‘ that Her Majesty will not be advised to assent to any Newfoundland legislation discriminating directly against the products of the Dominion ’. (3) His Majesty’s Government cannot agree to a Colony asking from foreign powers concessions hostile to the interests of other parts of the Empire. If, therefore, a preference was sought by or offered to a Dominion in respect of any article in which it competed seriously with the other Colonies or the Mother Country, His Majesty’s Government would feel it ! See United States Senate, 52 Congress, Sess. 1, Exec. Doc. No. 114 ; Canadian Gazette, xviii. 603; Hopkins, Sir John Thompson, p. 402. * Cf. Canadian Gazette. xviii, 482; Parl, Pap., C. 6303, pp. 14 seq., 33 seq.

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