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Title: Third Salisbury administration, 1895-1900
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Whates, Harry Richard
Subjects: Robert Cecil-marquess of Salisbury Great Britain-History-Victoria,1837-1901
Publisher: Westminster,Vacher

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in the Assembly asking him to send a Eoyal Commission tothe island; and they let it be known that their real object was,notwithstanding the Contract made with Mr. Reid, to dip theirhands into the Imperial Exchequer. Then Mr. Chamberlain sent aDespatch which should have made their ears tingle. He refusedthe Commission. They had, he said, alienated the assets of theColony; their request for a Eoyal Commission was only an appealfor financial assistance :— Such an application cannot for a moment be entertained and Irequest that you will at once inform your Ministers that it is im-possible for the Imperial Government to take any responsibility, oraccord any financial assistance, in the case of a self-governing Colonywhich has had full control of its finance and is solely responsible forits mismanagement/ Having delivered that blow from the shoulder Mr. Chamberlain allowed Sir H. H. Murray, the then Governor, to sign the Contract and the Bill became an Act. The case cannot be stated in a
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LD.W- 0. //- I4Q& V. & S. Lith, UNDEVELOPED ESTATES. 257 manner likely to satisfy either those who favoured or those whoopposed the contract. The subject is highly controversial. A writerwho took a brief either for or against would have little difficulty inconvicting either Mr. Chamberlain or the Newfoundland Ministers ofa gross error of judgment. No verdict can be given until it is seenhow far the Contract benefits Mr. Reid at the expense of the Colonyor the Colony at the cost of Mr. Reid. Opinion must be held insuspense. It is sufficient for the purpose to show how masterly anddecisive was Mr. Chamberlains attitude and how arrogant andunpleasant he can be when he thinks himself warranted in playingthe part of mentor. Another point may be made: disgusted asMr. Chamberlain evidently was with the Contract, and with thecunning showed by the Newfoundland Ministers in attempting to getmoney from the Imperial Exchequer as well as from Mr. Reid, henevertheless adhered to Constitutio

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