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-

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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

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1616 ADDENDA in a direct motion of censure on July 251! the Government were maintained by a majority of 42 votes to 37, the same date saw the resignation of their seats by Mr. Dunn and Mr. Horne. members for Mudgee and Liverpool Plains. The result of their resignation was to reduce the number of members of the Assembly to 88, of whom 44 were acknowledged supporters of the Government, leaving the Government with an effective voting strength of 43 only, as one of their members was in the Chair. The Government then decided and announced in the Assembly on July 262 that they would not carry on any further business on the ground that while two ordinary by-elections such as those necessi- lated by the resignation of members would not justify Government in suspending its operations, the position in which the Government were left by the loss of their assured majority rendered it undesirable to proceed further with business until the by-elections had been decided. But the leader of the group of Independents at once made it clear that he was not prepared to allow an adjournment over the period of the elections. After full consideration, therefore, the Labour Government decided that it would be well to ask the officer administering the government to grant them a prorogation with a view to taking at the by-elections the opinion of the country on the questions at issue, but the Lieu- benant-Governor definitely declined to do so, whereupon the Govern- ment placed in his hands their resignations, which he accepted con- ditionally as usual on his being able to find other advisers prepared to undertake the responsibilities of government? Mr. Wade, the Leader of the Opposition and formerly Premier, was then sent for py Sir William Cullen, and was asked if he would undertake the conduct of government. This Mr. Wade was unwilling to do unless the Lieutenant-Governor was prepared to promise him a dissolution, as with parties equal there was no real prospect of his being able to carry on business, especially as the Labour party had deprived him of his potential majority of one by inducing the Speaker to resign his position, so that had he taken office Mr. Wade would have been defeated at any moment the Labour Party chose. The Lieutenant- Governor then recalled to office the outgoing Ministry and granted them, on August 1,5 a prorogation of Parliament until August 23, to tide over the period of the bv-elections. t See Parliamentary Debates, 1911, sess. 1, pp. 1813-1914. On the contrary, on July 26 on a motion to suspend the standing orders in order to pass a supply Bill to cover July, August, and September, the Government was only able to bring up 37 members against 37; the Speaker voted with the Government, quoting the precedent of 1889, when, on Sir W. McMillan’s motion to postpone consideration of the estimates, the Speaker held that he should not cast his vote in such a way as perhaps to bring about a change of administration: see pp. 1929-51. * Parliamentary Debates, pp. 1924. 1925. Tbid., pp. 1998-2001. * See Sydney Morning Herald ana Daily Telegraph, July 31, August 1 and 2, 9114. 8 Parliamentary Debates. n. 2002.

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