Essays of Benjamin Franklin

Responsible government in the Dominions (Vol. 2)

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Identifikator:: 834623471

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-30699

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Holzer, Franz

Title:: General-Zoll-Tarif für die Ein- und Ausfuhr aller Waaren folgender europäischen Staaten: Oesterreich-Ungarn, Deutschland [usw.]

Place of publication:: Wien

Publisher:: Spielhagen & Schurich

Year of publication:: 1884

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Collection:: Economics Books

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8636 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS [part III difficulty : the Bill for appropriating moneys for works and buildings in that year was separated from the ordinary Appropriation Bill as including new matter of great impor- tance, and the Senate’s right to amend was admitted. But in one item the Senate did not amend in the ordinary sense of the term by reducing or cutting out a vote, but altered the destination of a vote for land for a quarantine station by omitting the definition of its locality contained in the Act. The Speaker of the Lower House ruled that the amendment could not be accepted, as it altered the destination of the vote which had been recommended to the House by message from the Governor-General, a thing which the Lower House itself could not do. In the Upper House the Government endeavoured to have the amendment reversed, but with its usual disregard for mere party loyalty the attempt was defeated by seventeen votes to thirteen. Then Mr. Fisher in the Lower House decided to leave the item out altogether, and thus to show complete disagreement with the decision of the Senate, which was really due to a desire to avoid discomposing Hobart by an unhappy site for a quarantine station. This proposal was accepted, but there were energetic protests by both Mr. Kelly and Mr. Joseph Cook, which had the merit of raising clearly the point how the items could be said to be new matters which the Senate could amend when it could not amend the ordinary Appro- priation Bills : the items in both were much the same sort of thing, and Mr. Cook renewed his earlier protest against the separation of the general Appropriation Bill and the works appropriation. The complaint seems in truth justified ; the really new items on the Works Bill, such as in the case of the works for the new capital, might well have formed the subiect of a new Bill.l while the routine works should have amend). An attempt to evade this rule was defeated in 1910; see Debates. 1910, Sess. 2, pp. 1412-8, ! Compare the inconvenient course adopted in 1910, when the appropria- tion for the works at the new capital was included in the Bill for public work appropriations, and only passed after an equal vote in the Senate. there being strong feeling that the site fixed on in 1909 was not the best.

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