life that these are gratifying sensations. I am glad to look back upon the days when I used to address the fathers and grandfathers of those who sit opposite and who fell away from the Liberal and Radical theme and lolloped into the slatternly trough of collectivism. Therefore, I in no way resent the references which the Lord President has made to my previous convictions, speeches and records, and I am particularly obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for the quotation which he made from my explanation of the Parliament Act 36 years ago. I am sorry I could not hear him, but I read the report, and for greater security I have a copy with me. He said: 204 The present Leader of the Opposition, in the 1910 Debates which led up to the consideration of the Parliament Bill , which became the Parliament Act, 1911 , expounded what he conceived at that time to be the policy underlying the proposals which were passed into law in the Parliament Act, 1911 . He assumed that Parliaments would on the average last for about four years, and he said that in the first two years of a Parliament the controversial questions upon which the Election had been fought would normally have been disposed of. Then, the argument continues, in the second two years of the Parliament there would be two classes of Bills -- Bills upon which there was a broad measure of agreement between parties, and fresh controversial measures,