1858 
INDEX 
151,452; timelimitfor speeches, 464; 
Speaker, 468; summons, prorogation, 
and dissolution, 470 n. 5; duration, 
502 ; franchise (cf. Bigger, Sir O. 
Mowat, i. 220-2), 477; qualification 
of members, 492, 493; payment, 
502; electoral matters, 505; no 
Upper House, 598 ; referendum on 
liquor question, 932 ; entrance into 
lederation, 647; representation in 
Senate, 652 ; in House of Commons, 
653; executive authority, 681; 
disallowance of Acts, 735 n. 3, 743— 
9; education question, 670, 1452 ; 
provincial subsidies, 757, 758; 
ludiciary, 752, 1337, 1338 ; decisions 
on constitutional questions, 754 
n. 1,756 n. 2; by Supreme Court of 
Canada, 751 n. 1; appeals to 
Supreme Court, 750; to Privy 
Council, 1360, 1372, 1373 ; preroga- 
tive of mercy, 1400 n. 1; Church, 
1424, 1425, 1451. 
Oodnadatta, terminus of South Aus- 
tralia railway, 917. 
Jrange Free State Republic, customs 
convention with Cape, 1622, 1623 ; 
agreements with Cape and Natal. 
1101 n. 3. 
Orange Lodges, 1034. 
Orange River Colony : representative 
government, 9 ; responsible govern- 
ment, 55-7 ; legal basis, 78 ; execu- 
tive government, 149; relation of 
Governor to Council, 321 ; legisla- 
tive authority, 355 n. 1; privileges 
of Parliament (Act No. 1 of 1908), 
£49; language, 462; summons, 
prorogation, and dissolution, 470 
n, 5; duration, 502; franchise 
foriginal number of members 38, in- 
creased to 39 by Act No. 22 of 1908), 
190, 491; qualification of members, 
501 ; payment (£300 a year by Act 
No. 21 of 1908), 504 ; Upper House, 
349-52; relations with Lower House, 
587 ; instructions as to reservation 
of Bills, 1011, 1012, 1014; public 
lands, 1048-50 ; native affairs, 1054, 
1055, 1067 ; British Indian question, 
1095 n. 1; judiciary, 1340 ; appeal 
to Privy Council, 1365; preroga- 
tive of mercy, 1417, 1418; educa- 
tion, 1452 ; Church, 1451. 
Orange Free State Province : entrance 
into Union, 949 ; provincial Coun- 
cil, 969-72 ; railway rates, 990, 991, 
Orders of Knighthood, 1303-5. 
O’Shanassy, Hon. J., Premier of 
Victoa (1857. 1858-9, 1861-3), 33. 
34. 
Ottawa: see Colonial Conference, 
1894, 
Ottawa mint, 1186. 
Otter, Brig.-Gen. W. D., appointed 
Inspector-General of Canadian Mili- 
tia, 1266. 
Overseas (formerly Colonial; title 
changed 1911) Defence Committee, 
1268. 
Pacific cable, 1467, 1471. 
Pacific Islanders, political disabilities 
of in the Commonwealth, 480. 
Pacific Islanders Protection Acts, 1872 
and 1875, Governor's duties under, 
208, 299. 
Pacific Railway scandal, 891. 
almer, Sir R., opinion on power to 
suspend Victorian judges, 1346; 
motion in 1868 as to Governor 
Darling’s conduct, 602. 
Palmerston, Lord, precedent of his 
action in 1858, 217. 
Papineau, L., state of Lower Canada 
under, 16, 17. 
Papua, development of (see also Parl. 
Pap., 1910, No. 74), 910-2, 1065; 
see also British New Guinea. 
Paraguay, treaties of October 16, 
1884, and March 14, 1908 (Cd. 4134), 
with, 1110. 
Pardon, power of in Canadian pro- 
vinces, 656, 680, 681; see also 
Mercy. 
Parke, B., views as to extra-territorial 
legislation, 384. 
Parker, Hon. Sir S. H. (now Chief Justice 
of Western Australia), represented 
Western Australia before Imperial 
Parliamentary Committee on Con- 
stitution, 39. 
’arkes, Hon. Sir H., G.C.M.G., Premier 
of New South Wales (1872-5, 1877, 
1878-83, 1887-9, 1889-91), 184; 
attitude towards federation, 784; 
views on prerogative of mercy, 1389~ 
92, 1404 n. 4 ; on defence, 1249. 
“arliaments in the Dominion, Part III, 
and see Table of Contents ; power of 
Governor to summon, prorogue, 
and dissolve, 156. 
2atent offices, dismissal of holders of. 
1341-7, 
Patents, mutual protection of, 1474. 
Paupers, provincial control of immi- 
gration of, 689 n. 1. 
Payment of members, 503, 504. 
Payne, Mr., case of in 1896, 215. 
Payne tariff, concession of, to Canada 
in 1910. 1118. 1143