488 HISTORY 



opinion was received with applause." °*' The only thing that could bring them 

 together was some suggestion of opposition to the government and its policy. 



The first breach of good feeling of the session arose over the market bill in 

 which the House insisted on naming the clerk of the market. The Council, 

 viewing the question from the administrative side, refused to accede to the 

 House bill.^" A conference of the committees of the two bodies undertook an 

 adjustment of the difficulty. The Council considered the appointment to the 

 clerkship in question as an undoubted executive function, and declared that it 

 would not allow it to become subservient to the caprices "' of any body of men 

 however respectable." ^" After the conference a House committee was sent to 

 inspect the records of the Council as to its action on this bill. It was soon 

 found out that the latter body had thrown out the bill.^" The House at once 

 passed a defiant set of resolutions, holding that it was against the public in- 

 terests to keep it longer in session, and that it would not appropriate any money 

 for the public buildings and grounds " until the right of the people " over 

 them should be fully recognized, and a bill should have received the assent of 

 the Executive, entrusting the care of the public buildings to a commission of 

 five or more persons named by a House bill.^^ As soon as intelligence of this 

 reached the Lieutenant-Governor he called the members of the House to the 

 Council chamber, where he administered some wholesome admonitions, and sent 

 them back to their constituents.^"^ 



The Lieutenant-Governor had given warning that he would veto any bill 

 reviving the old boards."^' The Council had taken the exact course that he 

 would have dictated if he had absolute control of it. JSTow that the House 

 attacked it, and refused to proceed to business without the absolute submission 

 of the Council, there was no other course left open to the Executive. The 

 Council must have condemned the action of the House, or refused to vote at all, 



="' Balfour to Stanley, No. 61. 



"° The Council at this time had both executive and legislative functions 

 residing in the same body of men. The members were not now in fear of the 

 House, and their connection with the administration had doubtless given them the 

 same view of the results of the House policy that the Executive himself took. 



f H. v., 1833, p. 260, report of House committee on the results of the confer- 

 ence. This clerkship carried with it certain judicial functions. 



-'^^ Loc. cit., p. 265. The committee reported that the reading of this bill had 

 been postponed for six months. 



^-H. v., 1833, p. 300. 



='^^H. v., 1833, pp. 205-206. 



^"H. v., 1833, p. 46. 



