Yet it had no such standing as in the British Parliament is given to a financial project of the Government.

There, such a proposition would be definitely framed at the Treasury, and its details would be elaborated when first presented.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer would state the full character of the measure and the reasons for asking its adoption.

Opposition or question would be expected only from the benches of the rival party.
Here, on the other hand, after the House, using its own judgment, had modified the bill, criticism and hostility came from the Treasury that had originally proposed it.

Several prominent members of the dominant party were pronounced in opposition.

Saved by parliamentary strategy when once defeated, the bill was started into new life by the adoption of restrictions upon the power and the action of the Secretary of the Treasury.