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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.