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He had introduced the Bill, of which Dr. 

 Wallace speaks, under the title of the " Importa- 

 tion of Plumage Bill " in May. It was carried 

 through its third reading in the Lords in July, 

 but lost in the House of Commons. A like fate 

 also befell his Municipal Voting Bill. He did 

 carry through certain amendments to the Old 

 Age Pensions Bill, but not that on which he had 

 most set his heart, which was to introduce the 

 contributory principle, on the German Model. 

 The Shops Sunday Closing Bill also went through 

 its third reading in the Lords, only to be lost in 

 the Commons. It will be noticed that his legis- 

 lative measures had not the same success after 

 his accession to the Upper House, and it seems 

 most natural to ascribe the lesser success in 

 some degree to the absence of his most simple 

 and, perhaps on that very account, most per- 

 suasive eloquence in the place where these 

 measures were in the greatest danger and where 

 their opponents were most numerous and active. 

 In May he was before a House of Commons 

 Committee, giving evidence in favour of the 

 Daylight Saving Bill. It was a Bill of which 

 the provisions, if they had become law during 

 his life, would have affected him far less than 

 most men, for his habits had been much those of 

 a Daylight-saver all his life through. 



An interesting appreciation of the Duke of 

 Devonshire is given in his diary in a short and 

 epigrammatic form which is full of meaning. It 

 is under date March 24 : — " In the afternoon the 

 sad news came of the death of the Duke of Devon- 

 shire. He has, I think, been oftener right and 



