568 PARLIAMENTS OF THE DOMINIONS. [PART IIT 
the former year the Council inserted an appropriation clause 
in a Reformatories Bill, which was validated ex post facto 
by a Governor’s message being obtained to cover it, and 
the Speaker decided that that procedure was adequate for 
the occasion. In 1910 the Upper House altered the Crimes 
Amendment Bill by inserting an appropriation clause, and 
there was rather a warm discussion, the Speaker ruling that 
either a Governor’s message must be obtained and the House 
formally by resolve decide not to insist on its privileges, or 
the Bill must be laid aside. The former course was adopted 
after a lively debate. 
In Canada in 1911 a Bill which affected payments to judges 
wrongly introduced in the Senate was dropped on excep- 
tion being taken by the Government. It proposed to grant 
pensions on certain conditions to all judges who had served 
as Lieutenant-Governors.! 
' It was apparently meant to provide for the then Lieutenant-Governor 
of Quebec, the late Sir A. Pelletier, and was introduced by a French 
Canadian member,