Das Konkursverfahren

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Identifikator:: 898983401

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-14637

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Stern, Bruno http://d-nb.info/gnd/124543715

Title:: Das Konkursverfahren

Place of publication:: Leipzig

Publisher:: Verlag von G.A. Gloeckner

Year of publication:: 1914

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 160 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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188 THE EXECUTIVE GOVERNMENT [PART II required was given, and Parliament when it met turned out the Government by two votes, and Mr. Hall! formed a Govern- ment. The Governor was not yet rid of his troubles, for the ex-Premier, who was in good and bad alike strenuous, revealed to the House that he had been compelled by the Governor, with the alternative of resignation, to take the step necessary to allow Mr. Hall to resign his place on the Legislative Council, of which he was a member, in order to become a candidate at the election for the Lower House. Fortunately the episode did the Governor no harm, for his action had been clearly in the right.? There is also an interesting case that is worth men- tioning as a sequel to the case of Mr. Letellier, which will be adduced below. Mr. Joly, who was called by Mr. Letellier bo office, had never a strong hold of the Government. He was ab last defeated by six votes in the Lower House, and the Upper House had already stopped the supplies, and so he asked in 1879 for a dissolution on the ground that he anticipated a majority from the country. The request was refused, on the ground that he had already had one dissolu- tion, that he had never had a substantial majority, that there was no likelihood of the grant being effectual in returning his party in strength, and because the Legislature only lasted four years, and should not be frequently dissolved. The Lieutenant-Governor’s action was upheld by the fact that Mr. Chapleau formed with ease a new Government. The question of the power of the Governor to dissolve Parliament was raised by Sir F. Dillon Bell at the Colonial Conference of 1887 on behalf of New Zealand? He admitted that there had been cases in the past where there had been undeniable advantages in the position of personal influence ! This was reconstructed under Mr. Whitaker in 1882, then reconstructed in 1883 under Major Atkinson, who was defeated in 1884, and after a dis- solution resigned on defeat at the polls. * New Zealand Parliamentary Debates, xxxii, 283-9, 387, 397, 579. ? Bee Parl. Pap., C. 5091, pp. 555 seq. On the other hand, in favour of discretion as to dissolution, see Baker, Constitution of South Australia, p. Xxv ; Goldwin Smith, Canada, pp. 194, 195; and of. Dilke, Problems of Greater Britain, i. 294, 295.

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