THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN DEAD

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 9, 11 January 1912, Page 2

THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN DEAD-

It is understood that the South Australian Parliament, consequent upon the deadlock between the -two Houses will be dissolved about the middle of this month, and that the elections will take place on 10th or 17th February. It is a Very pretty quarrel as it stands. Th« Government's appeal to Caesar — the long cablegram despatched through the Governor to the Secretary of State for the Colonies — was of unique interest til itself but it failed to accomplish anything. "Extremely urgent. Legislative Counoil refused to pass Appropriation Bill. No supplies to carry on business." So it began, this doleful appeal to the Secretary for the Colonies to help the South Australian Government out of a hole* The* Government received, in reply, the following cable message: "I regret that I am unable to comply with Ministers' request. Interference of Imperial Parliament in internal affairs of self-governing State would not* be justified under any- circumstances until every constitutional remedy has been exhausted, and then only in response to request of overwhelming majority of people, and if necessary to enable Government of Country to bo carried on." So Cabinet; having carefully considered the position, has decided to exhaust every constitutional remedy, and after that has been done, then, if no remedy has been foiind i they will makn further representation "to tho Secretary for the Colonies. Mr. Verran, the Premier, is not having^ a very happy time of it; and to add to his discomfiture the Legislative Council has had a message of its own transmitted to the Home Government, in which the Premier's cablegram is characterised aa "incomplete, disingenuous, and misleading." -A Supply Bjll for £800,000,' to carry the Government over the period of the elections, has been put through; and there the matter ends for the present. To use the phrase so familiar when strikes of other kinds are on, both sides are determined, and it ia safe to cay that the elections will cause an unusual amount of excitement in \ South ' Australia— and it takes a lot to excite the people of that State.'