Frankreichs Bank- und Finanzwirtschaft im Kriege

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Identifikator:: 885239911

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-6094

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Respondek, Erwin http://d-nb.info/gnd/119085046

Title:: Frankreichs Bank- und Finanzwirtschaft im Kriege

Place of publication:: Jena

Publisher:: Verlag von Gustav Fischer

Year of publication:: 1917

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 203 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: II. Die Notenbank

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310 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [Part IT § 3. Tue CoMPOSITION OF THE DOMINION CABINETS The size of Cabinets differs considerably from Dominion to Dominion, and in the Dominions there prevails a some- what curious practice of having honorary ministers, who are full members of the Cabinet in the usual sense of the word, but who do not hold any office with emoluments attached thereto. They are available not merely to conduct governmental business in either House in which they may sit, but they can also be used to do work in the absence or illness of a minister, or to act as whips. The institution is clearly a convenient one, and its use is increasing, not decreasing ; it must be remembered that the great distances in the Dominions are partly the cause; a minister who visits an outlying part of the Dominion or state may have long distances to go and be away for some days as a matter of course in the middle of the session, and an ordinary minister, probably extremely busy himself, has no time to attend to the duties of another office. It must also be re- membered that a minister in the Dominions has no assistance in Parliament corresponding to the Secretaries and Under- Secretaries of the governmental offices in England. The plan was tried in Canada in 1887, when Parliament provided for a department of trade and commerce presided over by a minister of trade having control and supervision of the departments of customs and inland revenue. The object of this was to appoint a controller of customs and one of inland revenue, who should be ministers but not members of the Cabinet, and who should work under the supervision of the Minister of Trade. The purpose was admitted by Sir John Macdonald 2 in his speech on the Act for the creation of the new arrangement to adopt the English practice as regards Under-Secretaries. In 1892 the new arrangement took ! So usually in New South Wales; cf. Act No. 32 of 1902, ss. 36-8; Parliamentary Debates, 1910, Sess. 2, p. 409. Interchange of duties in South Australia is rendered possible by Act No. 1000, 1910. * Canada House of Commons Debates, 1887, ii. 862, 863. It is recom- mended for re-adoption by Sir R. Cartwright ; see Senate Debates. 1911, p. 252.

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