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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ADDENDA 1619 Mr. Hazen, the Premier of New Brunswick, and Mr. Cochrane, the Minister of Lands, Forests, and Mines of Ontario. He admitted into hig Cabinet the leader of the Conservatives of Quebec, Mx. Monk, as Minister of Public Works, who had co-operated in the election with Mr. Bourassa and Mr. Lavergne. All the provinces were given representation on the Cabinet with the exception of Prince Edward [sland ; the leadership in the Senate, where of course the Government is in a great minority, was entrusted to Senator Lougheed, of Alberta. Three ministers, including Senator Lougheed, were without port- folios. The ex-Speakers of the Senate and Commons were sworn of the Privy Council! as a compliment in accordance with the prece- dent set by Sir J. Macdonald’s Government. The appointments and contracts placed by the outgoing Government were in the main accepted, but not without exception? As Parliament had been dis- solved without obtaining supply (a point argued against the Govern- ment during the electoral contest and condemned by Mr. Borden in the House of Commons), it was summoned for November 15 to vote supply, and salaries, &c., were paid in anticipation on a Governor-General’s warrant, as not rarely even under the preceding régime3 The victory of the Liberal-Conservative party in the Dominion was followed by a dissolution in Ontario which returned Sir J. Whitney to power with a slightly reduced majority and by a change of government in Prince Edward Island consequent on two by- elections, and Mr. Mathieson became Premier of a Conservative govern- ment which at the general election of 1912 won nearly every seat. Pace 326, n. 1. The general election of 1911 saw the complete defeat of the Liberal party in Western Australia; the Premier at once resigned, and Mr. Scaddan became Premier of a Labour Govern- ment containing two honorary ministers. All but Mr. Scaddan were elected in caucus. Pace 505. Victoria by Act No. 2321 has adopted compulsory preferential voting for the Assembly, and the general election of t Canadian Gazette, Iviii, 198. ¢ Thid. ; Commons Debates, 1911-2, pp. 901-50. The appointments of com- missioners under the Boundary Waters Treaty proposed by the late Government were revoked and other names substituted. For a case in Western Australia where an appointment of a Civil Service commissioner was made by the outgoing government before the elections, see British Australasian, December 14, p. 8. % 6. g. Canada Sess. Pap., 1900, No. 49 ; and cf. the case of the Order in Council permitting United States vessels to engage in the coasting trade in 1899; ibid., No. 76a. South Australia has proposed a Treasurer's advance to limit excess warrants, see Assembly Debates, 1911, pp. 546, 547 (cf. the English Civil Contingencies Fund—£120,000—which is still without legislative sanction despite Todd, Parliamentary Government in England, ii. 20, 43, and the Treasury Chest Fund—£700,000—the use of which is restricted to advances for foreign and colonial services; see 40 & 41 Vict. c. 45; 56 & 57 Vict. c. 18). For an legality in the Commonwealth, see Parl. Pap., 1911, No. 1, pp. 209, 210; Act No. 2 of 1910. Newfoundland provides by s. 33 (b) of the Audit Act, 1899, for unforeseen expenditure, and now appropriates moneys for the period up to June next but one after the session in which supply is voted. Cf. Western Australia Debates, 1911, p. 20; New Zealand Act No. 43 of 1910, s. 43.

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