World History

6.

Hansard,

1909, Lords, IV, 752–3. [Lord Loreburn (Lord Chancellor), Nov. 22, 1909.]

In the year 1860, when this House threw out the Bill for the repeal of the Paper Duty, the House of Commons passed a Resolution asserting that they had themselves the power of keeping their own rights inviolate, and the next year they put all the money provisions . . . into one Bill. It was passed by your Lordships. It has been passed ever since by your Lordships. . . . It is very open to question . . . whether any pure money Bill, small or large, had ever been thrown out by this House. . . . But I will assume, although I do not wholly assent, that it has been done on various occasions in the course of these small and unimportant Bills; but it has never been done—never—in regard to the finance of the year.

[On Nov. 30, 1909, the Finance Bill was rejected by the House of Lords by a vote of 350 to 75.]