63¢ PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [PART III 
by the House of Representatives in sending up a Supply Bill 
purporting that a grant had been made by the Lower House : 
but the Senate at once asked for an amendment so as to 
remove the address to the Crown in the preamble, and to 
insert a schedule showing what the grant was for, and the 
Lower House consented after some discussion to the sugges- 
tion! In 1904 the Governor-General’s speech was altered 
so as at prorogation to convey thanks to both Houses for 
the grant, and at the opening of the session to refer merely 
to the originating of Bills for grants in the Lower House. 
In 1901 the practice of printing in italics proposals as to fines 
and penalties which the House of Lords is allowed by custom 
to do, the Commons not objecting on grounds of privilege to 
this mode of suggesting amendments on small points like these, 
was omitted on the direction of the President of the Senate. 
Much more serious has been the question of the power to 
suggest amendments. In 1902, in the course of discussion of 
the Tariff Bill, the Upper House suggested a set of amend- 
ments : some were accepted, some rejected in the Lower 
Hbuse, but on the Bill being returned the Upper House 
still insisted on some and sent back new suggestions, Then 
the matter was solved by a compromise, as all were deter- 
mined to get the tariff through : the Lower House without 
prejudice proceeded to consider the amendments, and there 
was in effect a compromise between the Houses, but the 
Upper House passed a resolution affirming that the action 
of the House of Representatives in receiving and dealing 
with the reiterated requests of the Senate was in compliance 
with the undoubted constitutional position and rights of the 
Senate. In 1908 the same performance was repeated : the 
Senate made one set of requests : some were granted, some 
returned ungranted : then they sent down a second set, and 
then the Lower House, to avoid a third set and a consti- 
tutional deadlock. decided to make a compromise with the 
* Parliamentary Debates, 1901, pp. 1021, 1153, 1174, 1190, 1352, 1471 ; 
Act No. 1 of 1901. 2 Thid., pp. 942-7. 
* Ibid., p. 763. Cf. May, Parliamentary Practice,” pp. 460, 529, 548, 705, 
* Ibid., 1902, pp. 15676 seq. ® Thid., pp. 15813 seq.