Government Joseph-Alfred Mousseau

The mandate of the government of Joseph-Alfred Mousseau , become Prime Minister for Quebec following the resignation of its predecessor Joseph-Adolphe Chapleau, extended from the July 31st 1882 with the January 23rd 1884. It is Chapleau itself which required of him to succeed to him because it had decided to make the jump in federal policy.

Composition

Joseph-Alfred Mousseau: Prime Minister, public prosecutor, Solicitor General.

Jonathan Wurtele: provincial treasurer.

Jean Strainer: provincial secretary.

Elisee Dionne: Minister for Agriculture, public Minister for Labor.

William Warren Lynch: police chief of the Grounds of the Crown.

Henry Starnes: police chief of the Railroads.

Chronology

July 31st 1882: Assermentation of the Mousseau cabinet in front of the lieutenant-governor Theodore Robitaille. Like that of Chapleau, it does not include/understand any ultramontane.

August 1882: Mousseau leaves not easily victorious at the time of the by-election in the district of Jacques-Cartier. Honore Draper, the liberal chief, openly shows it to have corrupted of the voters.

January 18th 1883: opening of the second session of the Fifth Legislature. Mousseau undergoes there the successive attacks of the liberals of Draper and the ultramontane wing of its Party. This one suspects it of wanting ressusciter the law Chauveau on the State education.

May 1st 1883: Draper disputes in court the election of Mousseau in Jacques-Cartier. Three hotel would have promised to him their votes against the lifting of their fines.

May 4th 1883: Mousseau grants the invalidation of its election.

September 1883: Mousseau gains the new by-election of Jacques-Cartier by 109 votes of majority.

Fall 1883: Mousseau tries to make enter John Jones Ross and Louis-Olivier Taillon, of the moderated ultramontanes, in his cabinet. Those affix their refusal to him.

November 16th 1883: the liberals gain the by-election of Lévis. Influential federal conservatives start to ask for the resignation of Mousseau.

January 10th 1884: on the council of Chapleau, Mousseau announces its resignation, Ottawa having promised to him a post of judge. The Robitaille lieutenant-governor chooses John Jones Ross, president of the Legislative council, to succeed to him.

Characteristics

Like Chapleau before him, Mousseau undergoes the attacks of the right wing of the Conservative party but it is less quite skilful than him to counter them. Its position quickly becomes intolerable when the ultramontanes start to suspect it of updating the law Chauveau on the State education and thus " to laicize " education. On their side, the Liberal party of Honore Mercier shows the government of electoral corruption and J.A. Mousseau to be the puppet of Chapleau. It is with a sigh of relief that the Prime Minister resigns in January 1884.

Sources

Robert Rumilly. History of the province of Quebec .

Jacques Lacoursière. popular History of Quebec , volume III. North. 1996.

Paul-Andre Linteau, Rene Durocher and Jean-Claude Robert. History of contemporary Quebec , volume I. Boreal Express train. 1979.

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