PRIVILEGE.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 698, 24 December 1909, Page 6

PRIVILEGE.

RIGHT TO ALTER MONEY BILLS. COUNCIL'S "FACE SLAPPED." PROTEST BY THE ATTOR.XEY-GENERAL K-The; action of the.House prEepresentativos in;;objecting;, to.: amendments made ,-iii.. money bills by ~ the Council - on. the., 'ground .thatthe alterations' w'e'roi.ail. infriiigemcnt .'of ; its ; ,priW.. ■leges was: '• of. ailiinterbsiing ; dis-: cussioh:;in,.the;..Council yesterday, ■'/!'./ ; ..The' , Attorpey-Geiieral-: remarkedthat .: reGently"; anpthcrv'.placo '.had been'■ eiliibitipg' a oundus' , :diTcrgeri'c'e''-.troin otho' established practice; of; British: Parliamentary. 1 proceedings...The-

If the Cry Continues "By all means" (continued Dr. Findlay) "let each ■ House: standon privileges where they have'.been improperly, .invaded; but' where it is 'obvibus;that) we' arb trying "to " improvo a■Bi 11 to llaye -our faco slapped 1 >by being- told'.that we have.: invaded the " privileges of another place is, .to 7 say. the. least,of it, .not very encouraging. If we ,n.rc ; to ;bo repeatedly,: met by the'cryV'ofprivilege, I -.for one \vill : .iii " tlie ; future not.attenipt toMo'ariythihg,to. Bills which 1 happen ..to. be' nio'nby'.*Bilis:'v:^'e,.caii't aliow thisyr'emm'der;tb;inirid. our own business to go on, for it would not be consistent with our dignity. I; ta(ce this' opportunity, it may. be through the press or through members, to remind .members of'another placo that ifthey dqu't .want our. help it will bo no uso.forus to wasto. OBr time oil measures of Ihe kind. •Wprdbtft'want to waste our' lime ,in trying lo.'imprcrae a Bill' if it is! to bo contemptuouslv returned with tm intimation ,to, the Reflect that