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it remained in his hands for a few days, when its wording wasslightly amended,

| Butalthough eix weeks have now elapsed | po writ of election bas yet been issued. | The procedure in such cases 18 well de

| ceivable

fioed by staiute. The Speaker, on receipt of the resignation, forthwith notifies the Lieutenant Governor who shell within seven days after the receipt of such notice issue a writ for the elect‘on of a member to fiil the vacancy. It is certaiuly incon- that ihe Premier of a British

| Colony should witbhold from the Speaker,

The essence «f Reepensible éJovern= ment is, that the Administration should possess the coufideuce of Parliament and | that public business should be cunducted according to the well-unders ood wishes of the people. Let us inquire whether

the relations of the prereut

Executive to |

| Parliament 60d tue peopie coutggaa co the

above propoOellicns,.

Ov tbe 13th of December lact the gov- | ernment ot Mr. Farqubarson, baving jost the -lections in Beitast and Murray Har

bor, was left wi.hboul a majority tas

| arrestihe atten! of

House of Assembly. The defecuon

Mr. Wise~who had during /ast eesrion yuted fur @ direct motion of want of confi dence- and the «lection Of pronounced opposition candidates in New Londen and | Tiguish gave the opposition L5 seats in the

House ot 3C. The Speakersuip being held

| by @ gover: ment supporter, left the “ar-

qubarson Governmentin @ minority,of ove,

provided that all the members were in their places, Tne situation existing from the 13.h of

for e single day, a document entrusted to him under the circumstances cescribed by Mr. Wise, Yet the only escape from such a conclusion 18 the alternative that eitber the Speaker or the Lieutenant Govern- or has violated the law.

Auother circumstance which ebould p of the Queen’s repre- sentative found in the dark and suggestive rumors in. circulation with re- gard tone dea.::zs of the ministry with Mr. Henry J. Pineau, member elect for the Tignish District. It is openly assert-

te ve

| ed and believed to be true, that the Pre-

December was one which called for the |

gravesi consideration by the Premier anc the Lieutessant Governor. According \o the precedents furnished by the action of the Ear! of Aberdeen, on the results of the Canadian General Elections iv 1896, and that of Governor MclIonis io British Coiumbia, last year, in dismissing Mr. Turner, it became the duty of Governor Mcintyre, either to dismiss Mr. Farquhar- eon or to object to the full exercise by him of executive functions. For my own part I do not regard the actione of the Ear! of

Aberdeen or Governor Mclnris as furnishing wholescine precedenis. The accepted English practice,

that the views of members of Parliament can only be constitutionally ascertained after being duly convened and in acol- lective capacity, ie to my mind the safer course,. It does not follow, however, that the Governor should remain oblivious to the facts when his government has been notoriously weakened in Parliament ,either by the withdrawal of the confidence of former supporters or by the unfavorable result of byeelectione. Under such cir- cumstances, the duty of the Representa tives of the Crown becomes verv clear. It ig simply to see thatno unnecessary de'ay sha)! occur in summoning Parliament, and that writs of election are promptly issued to fill vacancies in tbe Representative Chamber,

The proclamation in the last issue of the Boyal Gazette proroguing theProvincia! LegisJature until ine 23rd instant does vot, I am sorry tosay, giveany assurance of u very earoest desire on the part of the Premier to consult the wishes of Parlia- ment, nor does it furnish evidence of watchful solicitude on the part of the Lieutenant Goyernor in enforcing the obligations of the Constit»tion. When, during the session of 1873, Mr. Huntington formulated charges against the adminis- tratien of Sir Jonn McDonald on account of their dealirgs with Sir i:ugh Allan, re- apecting the Canadian Pacific Railway Con- tract, the Ear! of Dufferin only consented to prorogation on its becoming appsrent that the powers of investigation possessed by the Eouse of Commons were inavequate to a complete enquiry into the case,and on the distinct understanding that an

Commission and to finally pronouaoce on the conduct cf ministers,

(ure must aseemble within twelve months of the last prorogation, which occurred on the 19th of May iast. Notwithstanding that, through the trend of bye-elections and the defection of one of ite former sup-= porters, it has become notorioue that the ministry bas lost the confidence of the Assembly, we have the epectacle of a proregation toa date s]most unprecedenied for lateness and most inconvenient to the members of the Aseeinbly.

Besides the well-known result of bye: elections and the changed attitudes of parties in the Assembly, there are, 1 eub-

mit, very grave circumstances before the public which ca)l for serious consider tion by the representatives of the Crown. One of these is the resignation of Mr. Wise. That gentleman, as appears from his letcer in the public press, handed his resignation to the Premier with the dis- tinet desire and understanding, that his

; constituency should be given an immediate

opportunity of pronouncing on the actions of the Administration. That resignation was handed to Mr. Farquharson on the 2&tbh February last. It is known that

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mier of the Province, through his agents and emissaries, among+t whom are certain members of the Federal Cabinet, bas seduced this member of the aseembly from his duty io his constituents, and in- duced him to absent himself from his seat in the assembly at the approaching session for » pecuniary consideration, thereby re-

| ducing the number of opposition members

autumn session of Parliement ehould be ! ; held to receive the report of a Royal ; an earlier meeting of the Legiclature. It

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Under our Provincial law the, Legisla- ¢ the administration,except euch a8 are per-

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in the the Assembly. The circumstances attending the unrep- resentation of the Fort Augustus District

inthe Legislature, since 1897, are ulso|

grave factors in the Parliamentary situa- tions Mr. Peters, immediately after the general election, in July, 1897, publicly announced his intention to eever his con- nection with this province ; and subse- quently he made British Columbia his pers manent place of abode. During the ses- sion of 1898 he remaioed absent from the Assembly, On the first day of the session of 1899 luis seat would have become va- cant under the Provincial statute, unless ne atiended in person. That attendance was effected, as ie well known, by the use on the part of the Minister of Marine and Fisheries of a Covernment steamer and a Governiuent raiiway atthe Public ex- pense, and in violation of the Fourth Com- mascment. These extreme measures were resorted io, not forthe purpose of securing the representation of the people

ix the Legis’uiure, but to defeat, by a trick, th? wjeration of a wise provision in the law which was

intended to meet exactly such cases and reetore adequate representation of the people in the assembiv. Mr. Peters only remained in his seat for a few houre; but his appearence in the Assembly in 1899 renders it certain that Fort Angustus may go uoreprecented for another year.

The withholding of Mr. Wise’s resigaa. tion, the tampering with Mr. Pineau, the trickery used to prevent the, proper repres- entation of Fort Augustue,and the unwar- rented delay in summoning the Legisla- ture,all point in one direction. They demon- strate beyond debate,that Mr Farquharson has lost the confidence of the peuple, and tha: he is thoroughly coascious of the fact.

If the Lieutenant Goyernor has vot been the offender against the law in regard to Mr. Wise’s resignation, he should nut be condemned for the acts of his advicers, with respect to the representation of Tig- nisb, West River or Fort Augusius. But in view of the deplorably weakened state of his government and the desperaie mea- sures which are being resorted to by them to retain power,he should have insisted on

is not the duty of the Lieutenant Gov-~ ernor to interfere in the ordinary acts of

sonally imposed upon him by statute But as the representative of the Crown he has to see that Parliameot is allowed the fullest opportunity of controlling the affaires of the country.

The cleseness of the strength of the parties in the Assembly has suggested the l\klihood of an early dissolution of the Assembly. Froma careful examination of the authorities and precdents bearing ou similar caces, there can be no question that the Farquharson administration has no censtitutional right to advise a disso~ lution in the event of their being unable to condact public businees with the present Assembly. The circum- stances are almost iden‘ical with those existing in 1891 whenihe McLeod Gov- ernment, having loet the control of the Aesembly, acked fora dissolution. The action of Governor Carvel] on that occas- siov in refusing to grant a dissolution was nevercalled in question. The grounds of the refueal were,[ understand,substantially the same as those assigned by Sir F. A. Weld, Governor of Tasmania, where in 187°, the Crowther Administration de-

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The preeent Legislature was elec ed un- der the auspicesof the party now in power. There is no new question of pelicy engaging the attention of the country, and | itis not atall clear that a government | could nut be formed which could obtain the confidence of the prec:ut Assembly. To graata dissolution te the present Premier, could not be jasttfied on any publ c ground whatever.

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