Mr. Haldane, who spoke next, said that a large majority
of the Government's supporters attached great value to the proper function of a Second Chamber. His main fear of a Single Chamber was not the ordinary fear. "It is not that we dread what a Single Chamber would ; but I think this practical and cautious nation would make it so conservative; that we should probably make very little progress with it."I Be went on to say that a Second Chamber, popularly consti-1 tuted, would be "a sympathetic Second Chamber, which, like' the perfect wife of the poet, would warn, comfort, but not I command, not be in a position of the dominating authority.'1 After remarking that the time had come for a change on a ; large scale, Mr. Haldane said that, if the Bill were passed, the Government would be pledged not to treat it as a final step.!
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