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curious political instinct that seem to belong
to them. In any case, the decision
must of course remain with them. The point of
anxiety is whether now any chance of consideration will be
available, and whether proposals which may have the most
far-reaching consequences to national prosperity, may not be
brought up and become law in the course of a few weeks, and
before the chance is given for consideration of them.
The present condition of things would make this possible;
Up till now it has been accepted by both parties, (not
the Labour Party!) that the Parliament Act was not complete
but required some adaptation, and what made your speech
specially interesting was that it was the first which boldly
faced the alternative, that time had shown that as a Second
Chamber with our peculiar qualities & powers as a political
nation, it was the best that could be evolved. I quite agree
that when one considers the elective, the partially
elective, or the present suggestions put before the
country for consideration by the Government, the subject
bristles with difficulties. The House of Commons would
never accept the purely elective; and the partially elected