JOURNAL AND PROCEEDINGS. 31 
Goldwin Smith truly says: ‘‘ The Imperial Govern- 
ment, the Queen, retains a veto on all Dominion legislation. 
So far as the internal legislation of Canada goes, the imperial 
veto, like the veto of the British sovereign in home affairs, 
sleeps as 1t has slept since the days of William III. Canada 
does as she likes in home affairs, marriage with a deceased 
wife’s sister, ‘ an adverse tariff,’ and against copyright, being 
the only exceptions. 
From 1867 down to 1890 only 15 acts of the Dominion 
were reserved by the Governor-General for the assent of the 
the Queen, and only one disallowed, reducing the Governor- 
General’s salary.’’ 
These old customs and antique solemunities transplanted 
from another world to our modern and democratic midst, open 
the pages of history from the day when William the Con- 
queror landed on the shores of England in the eleventh cen- 
tury down to our own day, when a royal princess, descended 
from the blood of William, takes her place in these same cere- 
monies, in the city of Ottawa, which were carried by the 
Conqueror from Normandy into England, and in turn from 
England to this continent, to find again many of the people 
who were detached from the land which was the cradle of 
William. 
Mr. Speaker Gully of the British House of Cammons, re- 
elected for the third time on Monday last, is the fifth Speaker 
that has presided over that House during the reign of our 
Queen, is the roth Speaker of this century, and following Sir 
William Hungerford, who was the first English Speaker 
elected in the year 1377, is the 137th in one unbroken line. 
His salary is 45,000 per aunum, with an allowance of £100 
for stationery, a residence and suite of rooms at Westminster, 
a secretary and staff of clerks, and as they do not change the 
Speaker there at every parliament, 41000 equipment money 
upon his election and the remains of an old custom, two hogs- 
heads of claret. 
He has also a state coach for high ceremonial occasions, 
said to have been made in the days of Cromwell, and weighing 
