EVENING SITTING.
The Houbo resumed at '£.3Q p.m. Mr Poaoock continued the' debate, It w<in a glaring' anomaly that Government should bring down estimates they were not responsible fer, and bo hoped tho House would agree tb the Mr lytosy spoke in favor of the Speaker's view. Sir George Grey said that all his sympathies were with the Ministry on this oo< oaslon He entered Into an 'exhaustive criticism of the Oivjl Service at large whlcfc ought \o b$ protected from, the interference of Individuals'. The Premier quoted frqra correspond^ enpa In \BQft botweon the Speaker Mr Stafford to sbqw tha J, it wa.a theq the I practice for Government to control all the Legislative Estimates, The present system did not oome Into vogue for years a f ter.
Sir Maurice O'KonrW - qmtfii a lelter of ? __anro's, In which he expreane^ most deolded opposition to having the oontro' o'^ the Legislative officers taken from him as unconstitutional' and improper.
The Premier said tbat that was a year before the passage he had Rioted, and the House having all that had been written before ir, decHned'to' ajcoedo" to 'the Speaker's proposition. After a Warm diacussieu the House divided on Mr W. f>. Stewart's araendmont, which was carried by 39 to 25 TII9 motion as amended vras then agreed to.
Tho P.-omier said that tho Government afW this vote wou d refer the Legislative estimates to tho Speakers of the two U.'U'ea, and consequen'ly they wo,nld havo to be withdrawn for tbe present. The quention would aleo have to be decided a3 to whether the Parliamentary buildings should be plaoed under the cot.trol of tha Speakers. Government would now ojnsldor themselves absolved from all responsibility for tho Legislative estlmatep.
Mr Fl«h said that by their action they had deliberately taken out of their own hands o ntiol over the s»li»rlea whioh the Speaker oould now increase at his own pleasure. The result would be to bring the Speaker Into dlreot conflict with the members of the House.
After Hime remarks from Mr Kerr In reply to Mr Fish, tbe House adjourned at 11.55.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1898, 21 July 1888, Page 3
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351EVENING SITTING. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1898, 21 July 1888, Page 3
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