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.