To The Editor Of The Nelson Evening Mail.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 280, 21 November 1873, Page 2

To The Editor Of The Nelson Evening Mail.

Sir, —lf you will grant me space I would like to make a few remarks upon a subject which just now excites the mind of most men in the province —the election of a Superintendent. ' I do not mean to join the ranka of the general revilers of this'or that candidate, but simply to propose a means by which the great calamity of being condemned to four years' misrule may be ameliorated. We have two opposing parties^ and both tell us that we shall drift to certain ruin unless their candidate be elected as Superintendent. A very encouraging prospect . ,-- . Atone of bis meetings, Mr Curtis told the/ electors that he did not approve of a responsible Executive, but thought the whole responsibility of government should rest upon the elected head of the people —the Superintendent. I think that almost every elector would endorse this opinion, but would ask at the same time: —ln what consists this responsibility? Answer:—lt does not exist at all, but ought to exist. Do you sir, net think so, and do you not furthermore think that our Constitution Act might easily be amended in that respect if our representatives in Parliament wer*. to take the matter in hand? In my opinion the case might be met in this manner: That the Superintendent should, in the event of the Provincial Council passiDg a direct want of confidence motion, dissolve it f and that a fresh Council should immediately he elected. If this new Council carried a similar resolution during its first session, it may fairlybe taken/as vox populi, in which case the Superintendent should *be obliged to .resign. As, things are now, neither the Superintendent, nor; his ministers are responsible, and the former may rule like a dictator, so long as the abominable practice of out-voting the estimated revenue is persisted in. I~know you will reply that this is the Council's fault, and that they ought to know better. Just so, but they don't seem to knowbetter, anl I think that our laws ought to provide for things as they are, and not as they might I would be glad of your opinion Oh this' subject, as according ti mj notion j a constitutional government ia not, or ought not to be, a Government of which neither the whole, nor any-single member is responsible to their constituents. I am, &c, ■"'•' :) H.A.L.