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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- 
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