Responsible government in the Dominions: Responsible government in the Dominions

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 1)

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Press

Year of publication:: 1912-

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URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-236504

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Author:: Keith, Arthur Berriedale http://d-nb.info/gnd/119086794

Title:: Responsible government in the Dominions

Volume count:: Vol. 1

Place of publication:: Oxford

Publisher:: Clarendon Pr.

Year of publication:: 1912

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Title:: Part III. The Parliaments of the Dominions

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crap. vir] THE UPPER HOUSES 561 item of £7,000 for ‘ expenses of members’, to be payable for the year 1885-6, under conditions precisely similar to those defined by the Bill which had been so reiected by the Legislative Council. . 6. The estimates are not formally presented to the Legis- lative Council, but are accessible to members. 7. The Annual Appropriation Bill having been sent by the Legislative Assembly to the Legislative Council for their con- currence, containing an item of £10,585 for ‘ The Legislative Assembly’s establishment °, which sum, in fact, included the item of £7,000 for ‘ expenses of members’, the Legislative Council on the 11th of November 1885 amended the Bill by reducing the sum proposed to be appropriated for the Legislative Assembly’s establishment’ from £10,585 t0 £3,585, and making the necessary consequential amendments in the words and figures denoting the total amount of appropria- tion, and returned the Bill so amended to the Legislative Assembly. There was nothing on the face of the Bill to indicate the special purpose for which any part of the sum of £10,585 was to be appropriated, except that it was for the Legislative Assembly’s establishment. 8. On the 12th of November the Legislative Assembly returned the Bill to the Legislative Council with the following message :— ‘ The Legislative Assembly having had under their con- sideration the amendments of the Legislative Council in “The Appropriation Bill, No. 2,” ‘ Disagree to the said amendments for the following reasons, to which they invite the most careful consideration of the Legislative Council :(— ‘It has been generally admitted that in British Colonies in which there are two branches of the Legislature, the legislative functions of the Upper House correspond with those of the House of Lords, while the Lower House exercises the rights and powers of the House of Commons. This analogy is recognized in the Standing Orders of both Houses of the Parliament of Queensland, and in the form of preamble adopted in Bills of Supply, and has hitherto been invariably acted upon. ‘For centuries the House of Lords has not attempted to exercise its power of amending a Bill for appro- priating the public revenue, it being accepted as an axiom of constitutional government that the right of taxation and of controlling the expenditure of public money rests entirely with the Representative House, or, as it is some- 1279 00

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