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been put into force. The Governor granted a dissolution 
when he found that the Opposition could not form a Govern- 
ment; as the elections were favourable to the Ministry 
the Council decided to yield, and finally the franchise was 
fixed by Act No. 920 at £17 rental qualification, with a single 
vote, whereas the demand before had been at £15 rental 
qualification and a double vote. 
In 1910 the Labour Government under Mr. Verran intro- 
duced into the Lower House and passed a Franchise Extension 
Bill, which was intended to confer the franchise on all those 
persons entitled to vote for the election of the members of 
the Assembly. In introducing this Bill the Chief Secretary 
quoted a remark by the present Leader of the Opposition 
In the House of Assembly, made on April 26, 1906 :— 
It had become intolerable that a body of eighteen men 
elected by 52,000 constituents, should have the power to 
veto the will, acts, and aspirations of a body of forty-two 
members, responsible to 179,000 people. That was against 
all notions of British constitutional government. The 
Council had become more and more representative of a class 
and of class interests. The people of New South Wales, 
New Zealand, and Queensland, with their nominee Councils, 
had much more political freedom than that enjoyed by 
the people of this state, and it was never intended by the 
Imperial Government that that should be so when responsible 
overnment was given to the Colonies one after the other. 
The Legislative Council, however, showed no intention of 
accepting the proposal, and threw out the Bill* The Govern- 
ment then prepared a Deadlocks Bill, but though it pasced 
the Lower House 2 it went too late to the Upper House to be 
dealt with that year. A Veto Bill was passed by the 
Assembly in 1911, but rejected by the Council. 
* In the same year the two Houses were divided in opinion as to the 
surrender of the Northern Territory ; see Commonwealth Parliamentary 
Debates, 1910, pp. 4647 seq. ; South Australia Legislative Council Debates, 
1910, PP. 181 seq., 226 seq.; House of Assembly Debates, 1910, p. 717. 
Then the Upper House passed a Bill to repeal the Act of 1907 for the 
surrender, but the Lower House declined to accept it, and ultimately the Act 
hd allowed to stand and the territory was surrendered. 
Cf. House of Assembly Debates. 1910, po. 1110, 1184, 1248. It contem-