D1.8.63: [Untitled]

D1.8.63: [Untitled]

Newspaper Clippings

Bleek believes the increased membership in the two houses will make the legislature more resistant to the Government's (i.e., the Wodehouse Ministry or executive) undue influence. He pivots to the contents of speeches made in a meeting at Longkloof (Mr Wehmeyer's Humansdorp farm). Wehmeyer proposed a life tenure for Executive Council seat-holders, with successors chosen by the governor from a closed list of twenty-four members, to which he would reduce his House of Parliament. Bleek argues this would undermine legislators' independence. If the governor remains unresponsible, he may deviate from Wehmeyer's constraint when choosing his chief executive officers. Mr Walter pointlessly worries over pensioning (executive?) office holders incumbent before system change. He digresses to Austria's debilitating heterogeneity and Prussia's arms superiority as he discusses the Prussian-Austrian war.

Printed newsprint glued on paper

02 August 1866

Two cut-out columns of printed newsprint mounted on foolscap folio (warped). This clipping has no Het Volksblad header or date. 'Aug 2/66' is written on the mount.

Anti-Responsible Party, Mr Wehmeyer (his original ideas of Responsible Government), Responsible Government, arms superiority (of the Prussian Army), Mr Walter

Pressed clippings of Victorian current affairs opinion pieces by Wilhelm Bleek. The article starts mid-sentence, preceded by missing text of indeterminate length. The Cape Parliament circa 1867 had a Conservative (anti-Responsible Government) party, Constitutional party, and Responsible Government party (Molteno, 1900: 110-111). A Mr Thompson, member for Graham's Town, led the Conservative party (Ie Cordeur, 1990: 41). Bleek thinks admirably of American representative institutions.

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