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 VIII. Imperial unity and imperial co-operation

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CHAP. 111] THE CONFERENCE OF 1911 1557 Government from offering any concession regarding the pay- ment of double income-tax or of double death-duties, or the remission of stamp duties levied on Colonial bonds. The proposal of the Imperial Government that the Labour Exchanges should be used in connexion with emigration to the Dominions failed of acceptance owing to a hesitation as to the proposal by the Dominion ministers which proved impossible to remove. Resolutions were passed in favour of greater uniformity in the matter of trade-marks, copyright, and patents law, but such resolutions are now common form, and it is doubtful whether much can be accomplished bo carry them into effect unless the Dominions are pre- pared in these matters to accept the Imperial standards, and this they have not all yet shown much readiness to do. Similar considerations apply to the resolution which was adopted in favour of the mutual enforcement throughout the Empire of judgements including commercial arbitration awards, especially as the matter is not one which can be dealt with either by the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada or the Parliament of the Commonwealth, but must be left to such action as may commend itself to the Parliaments of the States and Provinces not directly represented on the Conference. The discussion of the Declaration of London clearly showed the disadvantages under which the Dominion ministers suffer in dealing with such a subject. The Imperial Government were in this case inevitably superior in the understanding of the issues in question, and no argument was advanced by Dominion ministers which had not been already put forward, and with greater effect, by critics in the United Kingdom. Sir Edward Grey had therefore no difficulty in meeting the arguments adduced by the Dominion ministers and in obtaining the assent of all the Dominions (Australia abstain- ing) to the ratification of the Declaration, and Mr. Fisher, though unable consistently to vote for the ratification, said that he fully realized that, despite its defects, the Declaration was a great improvement on the existing state of affairs. The opponents of the Declaration did not feel that the situation was materially altered by the assent of the Premiers, since,

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