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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CHAP. VII] THE UPPER HOUSES 559 3. We think that the claims of the House of Representa- tives contained in their message to the Legislative Council {which ran simply as follows :—That it is beyond the power of the Legislative Council to vary or alter the management or distribution of any money as prescribed by the House of Representatives; that it is within the power of the House of Representatives by Act of one session to vary the appropriation or management of money prescribed by Act of a previous session) are well founded. Subject of course to the limitation that the Legislative Council have a perfect right to reject any Bill passed by the House of Representatives having for its object to vary the management or appropriation of money prescribed by an Act of the previous session. The same principles were reasserted in the Queensland case, but with the added dignity of the authority of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The following extracts show the question put and the reply 2 :— Most GRACIOUS SOVEREIGN— We, Your Majesty’s loyal and dutiful subjects, the members of the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of Queensland in Parliament assembled, humbly approach Your Majesty with a renewed assurance of our affection and loyalty towards Your Majesty’s person and Government. Questions have arisen between the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly with respect to the relative rights and powers of the two Houses, which questions we are desirous of submitting for the opinion of Your Majesty’s Most Honour- able Privy Council. ! Tn 1898 the Speaker ruled that the Legislative Council of New Zealand could not amend the Old Age Pensions Bill, and his ruling was acquiesced in; see Pember Reeves, State Experiments in Australia and New Zealand, ii. 247. Rejection of an Income Tax Bill in 1893 and of a Land and Income Tax Assessment Bill in 1895 by the Legislative Council of New South Wales illustrate the proviso; see Walker, Australasian Democracy, pp. 36, 50, 51, In 1882 Mr. Whitaker’s Ministry introduced payment of members in a separate Bill to avoid the appearance of a ‘tack’ by adding the clause to an ordinary Appropriation Bill; see Rusden, New Zealand, iii. 450. In 1856 the Legislative Council of Canada threw out a Supply Bill because it included an item of £200,000 for buildings as to which it had not been consulted, and a new Supply Bill minus the objectionable item had hastily to be passed ; see Pope, Sir John Macdonald, i. 173. * Parl, Pap., C. 4794 ; H. L. 214, 1894,

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