The Life And Times of Lord Strathcona By W T R Preston
The Life And Times of Lord Strathcona By W T R Preston
William Thomas Rochester Preston
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His colleagues were sounded as to the possibility of the chief's retirement, and their report was that he was determined to remain First Minster until after the then-approaching elections. Then determined efforts were put forth with the object of driving him out. The proceedings at Cabinet meetings ceased to be secret. His sugges- tions in the Privy Council Chamber regarding the policy of the party and the transaction of business in Parliament, then assembled, were met with insulting laughter a...nd scorn. His recommendations for appoint- ments to vacancies in the service were promptly nega- tived. No Order-in-Council which he introduced was 190 LORD STRATHCONA passed. For weeks the Executive Council Chamber was little better than a comic opera. Every time he called the Cabinet together it was to receive additional humiliation and insult from those whom a stronger man would have dismissed at once. Public business was at a standstill. All shades of politicians realized " that there was something in the wind.
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