THE LATE SIR F. SARGOOD.
FILLING VACANCY IN THE SENATE.
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received January 21st, 9.37 _.m.) MELBOURNE, January 21. Parliament to-day will select a successor to the late Sir F. Sargood in the Senate. Sir Alexander Peacock is amongst the candidates. (Received January 22nd, 1 a.m.) MELBOURNE, January 21. A joint sitting of the two Houses selected on the first ballot Mr Robert Reid, Minister of Education, and a Freetrader, as successor to the late _ir F. Sargood in the Senate. The choice of a Freetrader came as a surprise. The question of the method to be adopted in electing a successor in the Senate to the late Sir Frederick Sargood was under consideration at a recent meeting of the Victorian State Cabinet. The Premier, in giving the result of the Cabinet's duiibea'ation on the subject, said th.ro was no order or precedent as to how Parliament should eiect a 6uc.e-.or. Both Houses would be called together, and each would then decide on its own procedure. It was distinctly not a matter in which the Government should take up any party position, and the Government did not proposa to do so. The course which probably will be pursued, says the "Age," will be that the Governor will notify the President of the Council and the Speaker of the Assembly of the vacancy. When the Houses meet the Government will move in each House that it is desirable that the House should meet at a certain time and place. The two Houses will then find themselves together, and will proceed to formulate the rules to be observed in the election of a Senator. The rules having been fixed the election will proceed. As it is likely that nominations will be made, an exhaustive ballot, which Mr Irvine considers toe lairest and quickest way of deciding the matter, will be taken to determine the choice of the majority.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11488, 22 January 1903, Page 5
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320THE LATE SIR F. SARGOOD. Press, Volume LX, Issue 11488, 22 January 1903, Page 5
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