INDEX
| [A] | [B] | [C] | [D] | [E] | [F] | [G] | [H] | [I] |
| [J] | [K] | [L] | [M] | [N] | [O] | [P] | Q | [R] |
| [S] | [T] | [U] | [V] | [W] | X | Y | Z |
- Abolition terms given to persons reorganized out of service, [262], [263];
- premium on inefficiency, [264]
- Absolute dismissal, Power of, in a public department would increase efficiency, [247]-[248]
- Acland-Hood, Sir A., on election losses to supporters of Conservative Ministry, [9];
- Administration, Interference of Members of the House with, [132], [135], [139]-[140]
- Administrative acts, How answers to questions about, are framed, [278]
- Allshire, W. H., Pension asked for, by Mr. Crean, M. P., [314]
- Ambrose, W., disgusted at civil service pressure, [145]
- Ansell, C. J., Complaint by, [286]
- Applications or communications, Post Office rule for making, [319]-[320]
- Arnold, ——, promoted by merit, [280]-[281]
- Association of Municipal Corporations controls Parliament more than capital, [392]
- Australia, Offensive officials forced out of office in, [228];
- promotion in, [289]
- Auxiliary staff, Grievance of the, [155]
- Badcock, J. C., before Tweedmouth Committee, [167]-[168], [296];
- Balcarres, Lord D. L., on election pledges, [9];
- on specific pledges, [242]
- Balfour, A. J., Anxiety of, for the public service, [199]-[200]
- Bartley, Sir G. C. T., intervened for one Canless dismissed as unfit, [313]
- Baxter, W. E., on a six-hour day, [324]-[325];
- Bayley, Thomas, asks for a Select Committee, [198];
- Beaufort, ——, postmaster at Manchester, Error of, in granting hours of work, [328]
- Belgian State Telegraphs run at a loss, [22];
- Rate Table, [23n]
- Belgium, Percentage of personal and social messages in, [18];
- Betting on horse races subsidized, [124]-[126]
- Birmingham, Extension of service in, [77]-[78]
- Blackmail and blood-sucking methods employed, [232], [233], [383]
- Blackwood, Sir S. A., recommends new newspaper tariff, [120]-[121];
- Booth, Charles, member of Bradford Committee, [213], [214]
- Bortlewick, Sir A., on Parliamentary interposition, [144]
- Boulden, Alfred, presented telegraphists’ grievances as to pensions, [356]
- Bowles, Gibson, on pressure on members, [203]
- Bradford, Sir Edward, Chairman of Bradford Committee, [213], [214]
- Bradford Committee, Report, [214]-[225], [359];
- question submitted to it, [214];
- ignores its reference, [214]-[215];
- reports its failure, [215];
- ignored rules of procedure, [216];
- declared comparison impossible, [216];
- reported widespread discontent, [218], [221];
- greater pressure of work, [219];
- statements unsupported by evidence, [219];
- recommended large increase of expenditure, [221];
- not acceptable to Post Office workers, [221];
- Lord Stanley on, [222]-[224];
- rejected by Balfour Government, [225];
- before the House, [233]
- Bradlaugh, Charles, intervenes for promotion of eleven men passed over, [283]-[285], [296], [305]
- Breakdown, Causes of, [217n]
- Bribery, Personal, replaced by class, [246], [382]
- British and Irish Magnetic Company reported shilling rate unremunerative, [33]
- British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company formed, [39]-[40];
- British Telegraph Company, [39]-[40]
- British telegraphy, History of, [37]-[41]
- Brodrick, Thomas, member of Bradford Committee, [213], [214]
- Brown, R. H., Interference for, [296]
- Burbridge, R., member of Bradford Committee, [213], [214]
- Business methods not applicable in State service, [215], [222], [229]-[230]
- Business ventures, State control of, an untenable doctrine, [378], [390]-[391]
- Buxton, Sydney, moved a Select Committee on Post Office Servants, [241]-[242];
- Cable between Dover and Calais, [39]
- Cameron, Dr. Charles of Glasgow, and rates for messages, [5];
- Campbell, John, Intervention by, to reopen case eight years old, [314]
- Campbell-Bannerman, Sir Henry, on election pledges, [10], [242]-[243]
- Capital, Very little new, invested after 1865, [40]-[41]
- Capital invested, how raised, [89];
- Cavendish, Lord Frederick, debate on Fawcett revision of wages, [132];
- Chamberlain, Joseph Austen, on promotions and concessions, [203]-[205];
- would not throw responsibility on House of Commons, [206]-[207];
- had personally considered all complaints made to him, [207];
- petty grievances, [208]-[209];
- members had asked him to protect them from pressure of employees, [209];
- opposed to thrusting details on a Committee, [210];
- proposed to get advice of business men on scale of wages of four classes, [210];
- names the Bradford Committee, [213];
- asks for a non-party vote, [234]-[236];
- replies to Mr. Nannetti’s interventions, [293]-[294];
- on decentralization of administration in Post Office, [318]-[320], [383]-[384];
- rule for making applications, [319]-[320];
- on wages of postmen at Newton Abbott, [329];
- refuses to force retirements, [339];
- on duties of secretaries of the Treasury, [361]-[362];
- on pressure for expenditure, [368]-[369]
- Chambers of Commerce, British, Demands of, for lower charges on telegraphic messages, [3]-[4], [81];
- agitation by, for State purchase of telegraph properties, [13]
- Chancellor of the Exchequer, Influence of, weakened, [364], [384]-[385]
- irrespective of distance, [19]
- Charges, lower, and better service, Promise of, [19];
- Cheeseman, ——, dismissed for political activity, [183]
- Childers, H. C. E., opposed reduction of charges for telegrams, [107]
- Churchfield, Charles, Misrepresentations made by, [159]-[160];
- Citizen, Upbuilding the character and intelligence of the individual, [12]
- Civil Establishments, Royal Commission on, Testimony of Sir Charles Du Cane before, on dismissal of incompetent public employees, [249]-[250]
- in revenue departments, enfranchised, [6], [96];
- organized for political influence, [7];
- culmination of demands of, on House of Commons, [8];
- on efforts of, to secure exemption from business standards of efficiency and discipline, [10]-[11];
- undue influence of in House of Commons, [11]-[12];
- danger from increasing number of, not considered, [6], [94];
- disfranchised in three departments, [94];
- G. W. Hunt on, [96]-[97];
- Mr. Gladstone on, [97]-[98];
- circularize members of Parliament, [147];
- warned by Postmaster General, [148];
- right of appeal conceded to, [148];
- campaign of education, [158]-[160];
- positions as, sought and retained, [161]-[162];
- Government compromises with, [163];
- too much political pressure from, [177], [188]-[189];
- disfranchisement of suggested, [178];
- concessions to by Norfolk-Hanbury Committee, [180];
- demand right to agitate, [183]-[187];
- Commons the Court of Appeal for, [184]-[185], [205];
- disfranchised at their own request, [185];
- ask new judgment on old facts, [188];
- have friends in the Commons, [190];
- Commons reminded of their votes, [196];
- pressure from, intolerable, [197], [203], [238]-[239];
- hosts of non-economical demands granted to, [381];
- political activities of, [382]
- Civil servants, Problem of a large body of, in a Democracy, [3];
- Civil Service should be kept out of politics, [234]-[236];
- Civil Service head of an office can alone influence expenses, [369];
- Civil Service pressure, The Treasury on, [132]-[134];
- Civil Service unions, Intervention of, in behalf of the individual, [245], [246];
- testimony given before, [373]
- Civil Services Expenditure, Select Committee on, 1873, Testimony of Sir Wm. H. Stephenson before, on dismissal of State servants, [247];
- Claims of the telegraph companies, [72]
- Class, R. W. Hanbury on a new social, [188]
- Class bribery displacing personal, [246];
- Class grievances, Spirit of trades unionism evoked for, [303]
- Class influence in House of Commons the great reproach of the Reformed Parliament, [6]-[7], [97]-[98]
- Class interests, The Commons the champion of, [366]-[368]
- Class legislation to be avoided, [12]
- Cleghorn, J., on power of the Treasury, [370]-[371]
- Clerks, Lower division, Salaries of, [170n]
- on political pressure, [186]
- Clery, ——, dismissed for political activity, [183], [185];
- Cochrane-Baillie, C. W. A. N., Query of, on press telegrams, [122]
- Commission on Civil Establishments, The Royal, on pressure for increased wages, [137]-[140]
- Committee of the Indoor Staff, Report of, the basis for the Raikes’ revision of wages, [41];
- Committee on Revenue Department Estimates, Questions of chairman of, on salary increase under Fawcett, [136]-[137]
- Committee to ascertain profits of telegraph companies, [72]
- Competition, Alleged wastefulness of, [53]-[54]
- Compton, Earl W. G. S. S., a representative of Post Office employees, [142];
- the companies’ proposal, [56]
- Consolidation of telegraph companies, Argument for, [54]-[55];
- Continuous counting of sporting messages, [125]-[126]
- Cooke and Wheatstone’s inventions purchased, [38]
- Cornwell, ——, Case of, [257]
- Cost, No explanation of discrepancies between estimates and actual, [80]
- Counter men, Risk allowance for, [349]
- Crompton episode, The, [291]-[292]
- on retention of pensioners in service, [340]
- Crosse, F. T., complains against promotion by merit, [284]-[285];
- Customs Revenue Department, Complaints about promotion in, [288n]
- Danish Government reports on users of telegraph, [17]
- Davies, H. A., on right to fixed rate of promotion, [335]-[336]
- Davis, R. H., on action of Post Office authorities, [228]
- Davis, R. S., announces concessions made by Postmaster General, [10]
- Day, Implied contract for six hour, [324]-[328];
- Decentralization of administration, Necessity of, in Post Office, [318]-[320], [383]
- Depreciation of plant, Cost of, [79]
- Discipline, Proper, should be preserved, [149];
- Discontent in Postal and Telegraph Service, [150]-[151], [158];
- Disfranchisement of civil servants suggested, [178]
- Disraeli, Benjamin, on civil servants, [95]-[96], [184]
- Disraeli Ministry, Concessions of the, [4];
- Dobbie, Joseph, intervenes against dual duty at Glasgow, [347]-[348]
- Dockyard laborers not disfranchised, [96]
- Dual duty men, [285]-[286]
- Du Cane, Sir Charles, on getting rid of incompetent public employees, [249]-[250];
- on promotion by merit in the Customs, [273]
- Duplex telegraphy, [93]
- Eastern Telegraph Cable Company, Work required by, [169]
- Economist, The, on nationalization, [61];
- on Bradford Committee Report, [216]
- Economy, Parliament has never an influence for, in expenditure for education, [320];
- Edinburgh, Extension of service in, [78]
- Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce leads in demand for lower charges, [3], [5], [81]
- Electoral disabilities, Acts for relief of, [184n]
- Electric and International Telegraph Company, Rates, [29]-[30n];
- Electric light, Spread of the, hampered, [389]
- English companies, Experience of, [29]-[35]
- Equality, Mechanical, demanded, [341];
- not opportunity, [343]
- Examination of first class telegraphists for promotion, [330]-[331]
- Executive ability, Deplorable waste of, by intervention, [318]-[319], [383]-[384]
- Executive’s power of dismissal, Curtailment of, [245]-[266];
- Expense, Enormous increase of, [146], [151], [160]-[161], [180], [200]
- Expenses, operating, Cost of, to State, [49];
- Extension of telegraph service, [77]-[80];
- Farrer, Sir T. H., on real difficulty of public service in getting rid of bad men, [253]-[255], [256];
- Fawcett, Henry, increased pay of telegraph operators, [131];
- Fawcett Association, Pledge contained in circular issued by the, [148n]
- Fawcett Revision of wages, 1881, [131], [137], [152];
- Fay, Samuel, member of Bradford Committee, [213], [214]
- Feasey, E. C., Intervention for, by J. Ward, [316]-[317]
- Fergusson, Sir James, on political circulars issued by civil servants, [147]-[148];
- Financial failure of State telegraphs, Reasons for, [99], [103]-[110]
- Financial Secretary, Duties of the, [361], [363]
- Fischer, H. C., before Tweedmouth Committee, [167]-[168], [169]-[170];
- Fisher, Hayes, on public expenditure, [365]
- Foreign experience in State operation, [17];
- summary, [28]
- Foreign messages profitable in Belgium, [22];
- in Switzerland, [24]
- Foreman, B. J., Pension asked for, by L. Sinclair, [314]
- Foster, M. H., on claims for reversionary rights, [70]-[71]
- Fowler, Sir H. H., on the tone in the House, [278];
- Fowler, W., on contingent liabilities, [75], [76]
- France, Government of, appropriates the telegraph, [38];
- increased use in, [51]
- France, Percentage of personal and social messages in, [18];
- Freehold of provision for life, Employee of the State has, [247], [380]
- French experience, [26], [28]
- French State telegraphs run at loss, [26]
- Garland, C. H., on service rendered by T. Bayley, [228]
- Giffen, Robert, on pensions to men reorganized out of service, [264]
- Gladstone, W. E., on class influence in House of Commons, [6]-[7], [97]-[98];
- Gladstone Ministry, [73]
- Glasgow, Extension of service in, [78]
- Glasgow postmaster’s mistake, [269]-[270]
- Godley, Sir A., member of Tweedmouth Committee, [163], [165]
- Goldsmid, J., on overmanning offices, [371]
- Gorst, Sir John Eldon, on expenditure of public money on education, [320];
- Goschen, G. J., on the evidence before Select Committee, [65]-[66];
- Government, The problem of, and its solution, [12]
- Government, The, ignorant of relations between telegraph companies and railways, [57]-[58];
- Government clerks, Scale of wages for, recommended by Playfair Commission, [130]
- Governments, The visible helplessness of, [359]
- Gower, G. G. Leveson, Questions of, on promotion, [269]
- Graves, Edward, on promotion for ability, [270]
- Green, James, on cases of Richardson and Walker, [290]-[291]
- Grievance, Abolition of a, in turn a grievance, [342]
- Grievances, Typical, [306]-[318]
- Grimston, Robert, on consolidation of telegraph companies, [54]-[55]
- Groves, J. G., Intervention by, [315]
- Guarantees required for new telegraph offices, [99], [100]-[101];
- Hamilton, Sir Edward, on support of Treasury in House of Commons, [368]
- Hanbury, R. W., on penny postage, [124];
- to Postmaster General, [172]-[173];
- on political pressure, [176]-[179];
- cost of concessions, [180];
- on political influence and pressure, [184]-[187], [382];
- on Steadman’s motion, [187]-[189];
- on wages of employees, [192];
- opposed new Committee, [193], [197];
- denounces Civil Service pressure as intolerable, [197];
- on “soft heartedness” on the part of heads of departments, [253];
- on framing answers to questions from members, [278];
- would represent Postmaster General in House of Commons only conditionally, [304]
- Harcourt, Sir W., on Post Office employees, [238]-[239]
- Hardie, J. Keir, on concessions of Tweedmouth Committee, [202]-[203];
- Harley, H., offers telegraphers chance to learn postal work, [344]-[345]
- Harrison, ——, Case of, [159]
- Hartington, Marquis of, presents a Bill for purchase money, [73];
- Harvey, A. S., on probationary period of service, [260];
- on trades union spirit, [302]
- Hay, C. G. D., Intervention by, for telegraphists, [337]-[338]
- Heaton, J. H., on political patronage, [237]-[240];
- censured by constituents, [240]
- Hegnett, ——, promoted by merit. Interference in case of, [284]
- Helsby, ——, promoted by merit. Interference in case of, [284]
- Henderson, A., intervened for one Chandler, [348]
- Hill, E. B. L., Testimony before Tweedmouth Committee, [137];
- against and for amalgamation of telegraphers into one class, [343]
- Hill, Lewin, on yielding to Civil Service pressure, [142];
- Hobhouse, C. E. H., Intervention by, [300]
- Hobson, Mr., postmaster at Glasgow, obliged to promote by seniority, [269];
- mistake of, [270]
- Holidays, Tweedmouth Committee on, [350];
- Horse races, Betting on, subsidized, [124]-[26]
- House of Commons, Intervention of members of, on behalf of public servants, [10]-[11];
- the Court of Appeal for civil servants, [184]-[185], [205], [382];
- reminded of civil servants’ votes, [196];
- omnipotent, [199];
- responsibility resting on, [200];
- members of coerced, [203];
- asked to purchase votes, [232];
- thirty threatened with loss of seats, [239]-[240];
- majority of members pledged, [241];
- under pressure from the Civil Service unions, curtails Executive’s power to dismiss incompetent and redundant employees, [245]-[266];
- intervention of on behalf of individuals through Civil Service unions, [246];
- is master of public departments, [252]-[253];
- pressure of members on heads of departments, [253]-[255];
- the tone in the, [277];
- stimulus of a question in the, [286];
- stands for extravagance, [360]-[377];
- the champion of class interests, [366];
- debates in, weaken hands of Treasury, [368], [384];
- constant pressure from, on Financial Secretary for class interests, [373]-[377]
- Hume, Joseph, W. E. Gladstone’s tribute to, as a defender of economy in expenditure, [371]-[374]
- Hunt, G. W., calls Mr. Scudamore author of Bill to acquire telegraphs, [14];
- Incompetents, Difficulty of removing, [247]-[257], [259];
- Indictment against telegraph companies, [15]
- Individual grievances, Interference for, [303]
- Industry, A ready-made, acquired, [5]
- Inland messages, Loss on, in Belgium, [21]-[22];
- Inland telegrams, Low rates on, [21];
- losses incurred by, [22]
- Inland traffic, Attempt to develop in Belgium, [21]-[22];
- in Switzerland, [25]
- Inquiry, Scope of the, [3]-[12]
- Inspection of education, [320]-[322]
- Inspectors, Educational, Difficulties of, [321]-[322]
- Inter-Departmental Committee on Post Office Establishments named, [163]-[164]
- Intervention through House of Commons on behalf of individuals, [245]-[247], [251];
- in matters of promotion, [267]-[268];
- by Members an obvious difficulty, [274];
- types of, [294]-[296];
- on behalf of individual employees, how managed, [304]-[335];
- special cases of, by members of House of Commons, [293]-[301], [313]-[318];
- number of, [316];
- waste of executive ability from, [318]-[319];
- mismanagement arising from, [322]
- Irons, H. B., complains of prospects for promotion, [333]
- Isle of Man cable bought, [81]
- Jackson, ——, of Kilkenny, Interference for, [298]
- Jersey and Guernsey cable bought, [81]
- Jevons, W. S., on the increased use of telegraphs, [52];
- Jobbery not the great evil of the service, [271]
- Johnson, H., Interference for, [296]
- Jones, W., intervenes for telegraph clerks at Oxford, [346]-[347];
- Lord Stanley’s reply to, [347]
- Joyce, H., on promotions for merit over men not qualified, [279]-[281];
- Joyce, Michael, Intervention by, [296]-[297]
- Judges, County Court, Travelling expenses of, [354]
- Kearley, H. E., demands a Select Committee, [151]-[154];
- Kensington, ——, Case of, [290]
- Kerry, C. H., before Tweedmouth Committee, [168];
- Knox, Sir Ralph H., on extravagance in House of Commons, [366]-[368];
- defenders of economy needed, [371]
- Lacon, telegraphist at Birmingham, Case of, [195]-[196]
- Laissez-faire, [12];
- Lawson, H. L. W., on interference of members of Parliament in dismissals from service, [252];
- Learners, Promotion of, [291]
- Leeds, Extension of service in, [77]-[78]
- Leeman, G., cross-questions Mr. Scudamore, [65]-[66n], [68n], [92];
- Letter sorters, Scale of wages for, [349]-[350]
- Letter sent, Scudamore’s misleading comparison of telegrams with, [52]-[53]
- Liberal Party supported demands of civil servants, [8]-[9]
- Lickfold, J. R., on medical certificates, [356]-[358]
- Lingen, Lord R. R. W., on difficulties in public departments due to triennial change of Government, [256]-[257];
- on trouble to secure efficiency, [272]
- Log-rolling by members of House of Commons, [10]-[11]
- London and Provincial Telegraph Company, [40];
- London Central Telegraph Office, Employees not drawn from, [169]-[170]
- London District Telegraph Company unsuccessful as result of low rates charged, [33]-[35];
- London local telegraph system enlarged, [77]
- London Trades Council, Complaints from, [159]
- Lowe, Robert, on the immense price paid, [74]-[75];
- division of the service under, [271]
- McDonald, G., on grievances of news distributors, [355]
- Macdonald, J. A. M., questions Mr. Gladstone on Civil Service pressure, [149];
- M’Dougall, ——, promoted by merit, [283]-[284]
- MacIver, David, on complaints of telegraphists, [131]-[132]
- Maddison, F., on a non-official committee, [191]
- Magnetic Telegraph Company, [39]-[40]
- Malingerers’ grievance, J. R. Lickfold on the, [357];
- Manchester, Extension of service in, [78]
- Manners, Lord John, on Glasgow postmasters’ mistake, [269]-[270]
- Mears, ——, Case of, [160]
- Member of Parliament, Should interference of, in behalf of public employee, lead to dismissal? [248];
- influence of, may annul power of dismissal in public departments, [251]
- Members of House of Commons intervene in cases of discipline, [302]-[322]
- Members of Parliament and the rank and file, [303]
- Mercer, ——, Interference for, [297]
- Merchants, General, used telegraphs little, [16]
- Messages, Annual increase in, [16];
- relating to personal affairs an important part of traffic [17]-[18];
- annual increase of, in United Kingdom, [51];
- Mr. Scudamore’s estimated increase of, [83]-[84];
- fully realized [87];
- traffic of, [104];
- increase in number of, [110], [111];
- sent to individual newspapers, [122n];
- annual loss on newspaper, [119]-[120], [122], [123];
- delivered to newspapers, [124n];
- remained nearly stationary, [153n];
- increase of, [181]
- Mileage of telegraph lines in United Kingdom, [43]-[44], [45n];
- Mitford, F., Power of dismissal in public departments may be annulled by pressure from individual members of Parliament, [251]
- Money order issuing Post Office, A telegraph office promised at every, [20]
- Money order post offices and telegraph facilities compared, [48]
- Monk, Charles James, introduced and carried Bill to enfranchise revenue officers, [6], [96];
- Morgan, ——, Case of, [290]
- Morley, Arnold, Postmaster General, [149];
- on a Select Committee, [150]-[151];
- reply to Mr. Kearley on promotions, [154]-[155], [157]-[158];
- on civil service positions, [161]-[162];
- on make up of Select Committee, [162]-[163];
- on the Post Office for revenue, [166];
- Lords Commissioners of the Treasury to, [172]-[173];
- on passing over men not qualified, [279], [306]
- Mowatt, Sir F., member of Tweedmouth Committee, [163], [165], [177]
- Municipalities and National Government as violators of permanent interests of the people, [391]-[392]
- Murphy, Dennis, Interference for, [297]
- Murray, Sir George H., on change in attitude of House of Commons on expenditures, [366], [385]
- Nannetti, J. P., questions promotion of two female telegraphists, [293]-[295];
- National Expenditure, Select Committee on, Evidence before in 1892, on intervention of House of Commons in Departments of State, [363]
- National Joint Committee of the Postal Association, Resolution of, against the Bradford Committee, [212]
- National Telephone Company, Obstacles to development by, [388]-[389]
- National Union of Teachers, brings influence against inspectors, [321]
- Nationalization of the telegraphs, [4];
- Newnes, Sir G., Intervention by, [298]
- News distributors complain about Saturday holiday, [352]-[353];
- Newspaper sorters, No work for first class, since 1886, [258]-[259]
- Newspapers, Subscription charges to, for press bureau, [113]-[115];
- Nicholson, A. S., on grievances of telegraphists, [334]-[335]
- Non-paying telegraph offices, Guarantees required for, [99], [100]-[101];
- Norfolk-Hanbury Committee recommended further concessions, [179]-[180];
- Norfolk-Hanbury compromise, [359]
- North, A. W., Grievance of, as to female telegraphist, [356]
- North, Lord Frederick, ordered civil servants to support the Government, [185]
- Northcote, Sir Stafford, Disillusionment of, [100]
- Norton, Capt. C. W., an aggressive champion of civil servants, [11];
- on technical examination of telegraphists, [190];
- moves a reduction in expenses, [201];
- charges Government with breach of faith, [201]-[202];
- motion lost, [205];
- on rights of postal servants as voters, [211]-[212];
- moved reduction of Post Office Vote, [233];
- on Civil Service agitation, [233]-[234];
- motion lost, [236];
- vote, [236n];
- made a Junior Lord of the Treasury, [237];
- intervention by, [296];
- for senior telegraphists, [338], [339]
- O’Brien, P., Intervention by, [297]-[298];
- for retirements, [339]
- O’Connor, James, Intervention by, [353]
- Official documents, List of, used as authorities, [14n]
- Operators, Increase in number of, to meet reduction of tariff, [108]
- Overseers in postal service, Relief from duty of, [352]
- Oxford telegraph clerks secure intervention against dual duty, [346]-[347]
- Palmer, G. W., intervened for learners punished for carelessness, [315]
- Parliament warned against Government’s estimates, [65]-[69], [76];
- Parliamentary committees, Titles of reports of, [14n]
- Parliamentary Secretary, Duties of the, [361]-[362]
- Parties, Both political, committed to nationalization, [4]
- Party, Neither, in open alliance with civil servants, [7]
- Patey, C. H. B., on guaranteed offices, [102];
- Penny postage precedent, cited by Mr. Scudamore, [82]-[83];
- Pensioners, Retired, recalled to service, [340];
- protest against before Tweedmouth Committee, [340]
- Pension system no remedy for getting rid of incompetents, [256]
- Pensions, State’s system of, contrasted with system of London and North Western Railway, [264]
- Pensions to the incompetent, Cost of, [263]
- Permanent Secretary, Duties of the, [363]
- Personal bribery replaced by class bribery, [246]
- Playfair, Sir Lyon, Testimony of, before Royal Commission on Civil Establishments, [139]-[140];
- Playfair Commission, Scale of wages for government clerks recommended by, [130]
- Pledge contained in circular issued by the Fawcett Association, [148n]
- Plummer, Sir W. R., intervenes for retirements, [338]-[339]
- Political influence, Effect of, on Post Office administration, [305]-[306]
- Political pressure not all in one direction, [138];
- Politics forces the Government’s hand, [58]-[59]
- Post Office, The, a revenue department, [166];
- Post Office Department, Complaint of stagnation of promotion in, [152];
- Post Office employees denied by the Conservative Ministry a Select Committee on their pay and position, [8];
- Post Office officials can only recommend for promotion, [276]
- Post Office Servants, Select Committee on, [359]
- Postal clerks and telegraphists, Comparative chances for promotion of, [344]-[345];
- Bradford Committee on, [348]
- Postal servants, Are, fairly paid, [217];
- Postal Telegraph Clerks’ Association, a powerful political organization, [9];
- Postal telegraph offices, Increase of, [101];
- Postmaster General, Concessions made by, [10];
- Postmasters general, Anxieties of, regarding promotions, [279], [280], [306]
- Postmasters, Demands of, from Tweedmouth Committee, [288];
- salaries of, and volume of business, [288]
- Postmen, W. C. Steadman on grievances of the, [194]-[195];
- Thos. Bayley asks for a Committee on, [198]
- Postmen, London, Abolition of classification of, [341]-[242]
- Preece, W. H., on ignorance of telegraphers, [157];
- offers increased pay for technical knowledge, [270]
- Press Bureau maintained by telegraph companies, [113];
- Press hampers heads of departments in matter of promotions, [268]
- Price, R. J., sought to intervene in House in a case of promotion, [280]
- Private enterprise, Adequate results of, [41]-[42]
- Private enterprise in telegraphy broken down, [36], [37];
- Probationers, Difficult to dismiss, [260]
- Problem of government, The, and its solution, [12]
- Promotion, Employees claim a vested right to, [153];
- misleading table of, [154], [158];
- Tweedmouth Committee, on, [170]-[172];
- Bradford Committee on, [230];
- E. Graves on preference for, [270];
- by routine the real evil, [27], [274];
- tact and honesty needed in, [272];
- selection of officers for, an invidious task, [306];
- right to fix rate of, claimed, [335]-[336]
- Promotion by merit hardly takes place, [274];
- Promotion by seniority the great evil, [274];
- demand for, widely established, [381]
- Promotions revoked through pressure from members, [283];
- Prussia, Effect of reduced rates on increase of messages in, [17], [18]
- Public interest promoted by activities of speculator and dividend seeker, 37
- Public opinion, Change of, in matters of public expenditure, [363]-[366];
- no body of intelligent and disinterested, [391]
- Public ownership a parasite, [37]
- Public service, British, an attractive haven of refuge, [10]-[11];
- “Public Service” messages, Allowance for value of, [26]-[27]
- Purchase by the State, Threat of, arrested extensions, [41]
- Purchase of the telegraphs, [57]-[76];
- Purchase price of telegraphs estimated, [58], [63];
- of reversionary rights of railways, [64]
- Raikes, H. C., scheme of increased wages for telegraph employees, [140]-[141];
- Raikes’ Revision of wages and salaries, 1890-91, [140]-[147], [152];
- Railway companies, M. H. Foster’s views on reversionary rights of, [70]-[71];
- Railways, Reversionary rights of the, in the telegraphs, [57];
- Rates for messages, Control of, lost by the Government, [5], [91], [92];
- Reformed Parliament, Class influence the great reproach of the, [6]-[7], [97]-[98]
- Reilly, Thomas, Case of, [308]
- Reorganization out of service, [262]-[266]
- Representation of the People Bill, [94]
- Reuter’s Telegram Company, Property of, purchased, [73]
- Revenue, Estimated gross, [84];
- Revenue Department Estimates, Select Committee on, Report on deficit in Telegraph Department, [110]-[111]
- Revenue officers, Enfranchisement of proposed, [94];
- Reversionary rights of railway companies, [69]-[70];
- Richardson, ——, Case of, [290]-[291]
- Right, The Sole, to transmit messages by electricity acquired by the Government, [5]
- Roberts, ——, auxiliary postman, Case of, [308]-[309]
- Robinson, postman at Liverpool, appointed inspector, [281];
- case cited as a grievance to Tweedmouth Committee, [282]
- Rockingham, Marquis of, disfranchised revenue servants at their own request, [184], [185]
- Rollitt, Sir Albert K., on demands of telegraphists, [155];
- on examinations for promotion, [156];
- moved reduction of salary of Post Master General, [173];
- endorses complaints, [174]-[176];
- demands a Committee of business men, [176];
- withdrew amendment, [179];
- reminds Commons of civil servants’ votes, [196];
- charges breach of contract, [202];
- record of, [224];
- supported Norton’s motion, [234]
- Ronalds, Mr., attempts to interest British Government in telegraphy, [37]
- Rothschild, Baron F. de, on civil servants, [143]
- Royal Commission of 1888 declared promotion by seniority the great evil, [274]
- Rutherford, W. W., a merchant in politics, [227]
- Salary, see Wages
- Salisbury Government succeeded by the Gladstone, [149]
- Samuel, H., intervenes for telegraph clerks at Oxford, [346]
- Saunders, Mr., on gratuitous sporting messages, [124]-[125]
- Schackleton, D. J., Intervention by, [353]
- School Board of London, Influence of, [321]
- Schwann, C. E., Intervention by, [298]-[299]
- Scudamore, F. I., commissioned to report on private and State telegraphs, [4], [13];
- report of, [14]-[22];
- reports based on incomplete returns, [42]-[45];
- errors in his figures, [44]-[45], [79], [80];
- standards of service, [45]-[48];
- errors of estimate of cost of extension and operation, [49];
- misleading comparison of telegrams with letters, [52]-[53];
- failure of his evidence, [54];
- argued for State monopoly, [55]-[56];
- previously opposed the same, [56n];
- on a Post Office system of telegraphs, [61]-[62];
- on the terms of purchase, [62];
- estimated cost, [63], [64];
- cross-examination of, [65]-[66n], [68n];
- ignorant of relations between telegraph and railway companies, [68];
- report on reorganization of telegraphs, [78n];
- estimate of revenue, [63], [81]-[82];
- influence over two ministries, [81];
- argues from penny postage, [82];
- revenue forecasts, [83]-[87];
- increase of messages, [84];
- gross revenue, [84];
- working expenses, [84]-[85];
- stood by his estimates, [86]-[87];
- revenue predictions of, appalling blunders, [87];
- responsible for, [92];
- to committee of newspaper proprietors, [115]-[116];
- yields to newspaper demand, [117]
- Select Committee on Post Office Servants, Composition of, and reference to, [243];
- asks for reappointment, [244]
- Service, Mr. Scudamore’s standards of, [45]-[48]
- Service, Change in conditions of, resisted, [351]-[353]
- Shares, Proposed way of selling, [56]
- Shaw-Lefevre, G. J., on the reduction of the tariff on telegrams, [108]-[110]
- Shehan, D. D., Intervention by, [297]
- Shephard, J., Complaints of, before Tweedmouth Committee, [289]-[290], [295]-[296]
- Sloan, T. H., Intervention by, [300]-[301], [313]
- Smith, J. S., on the Webster case, [307];
- Smith, Llewellyn, member of Tweedmouth Committee, [164], [165], [177]
- Smith, W. H., on the purchase of the telegraphs, [60]
- Smyth, Thomas, Intervention of, for Thomas Reilly, [308]
- Sorters of foreign letters, Option of vested interest for, [332]-[333];
- complaint from second class, [333]
- Speculator and dividend seeker, The mere, [37]
- Split duties, Complaint about, [155]
- Sporting messages sent gratuitously, [125];
- to so-called hotels, [126]
- Staff appointments the salt of the Service, [271n]
- Staff of men highly trained in the school of competition, [5]
- Stanley (of Alderly), Lord E. J. S., ordered report on Post Office Telegraph Service, [13];
- on Bradford Committee’s Report, [222]-[224], [229]-[230];
- would not receive circulars from members of House, [223];
- cost of recommendations, [224], [230];
- made own investigation and granted increased pay, [225], [230];
- would bear responsibility, [233];
- congratulated on his retirement, [244];
- on promotion for merit, [301];
- on dual duty, [347]
- Stansfeld, James, on difference between public and private establishment, [248]-[249]
- State, Result of extending the functions of the, [12]
- State employment means life employment, [247]
- Statistics of telegraph lines and facilities, [42]-[45]
- Steadman, W. C., demands a Select Committee on causes of complaint, [187];
- Stephenson, Sir Wm. H., on dismissal of State servants, [247]-[248];
- Superannuation Act, Committee on operation of, [262]
- Swiss experience, [24]-[26], [28]
- Switzerland, Reports on users of telegraph in, [17];
- Table of ages and wages of provincial telegraphists, [141n]
- Tariff on telegrams reduced, [91], [92];
- Tariffs and growth of traffic, [50]-[53]
- Taylor, postman of Sterling, Case of, [195]
- Telegrams, Proportion of, to letters sent, [18];
- Telegraph of no use in times of peace, [37]
- Telegraph clerks, Lack of knowledge of technics by, [270]-[271];
- Telegraph companies, Indictment of, [15];
- Telegraph deficit, Aggregate, [90];
- Telegraph Department, Report on deficits in, with statistics, [110]-[111], [181];
- not earning operating expenses, [220]
- Telegraph employees, Good-will of, purchased out of public purse, [380]
- Telegraph lines, Cost of rearranging and extending, [45], [49];
- estimated, [58]
- Telegraph messages, and revenue from, [104]-[5], [111n]
- Telegraph offices in United Kingdom, [19];
- non-paying, [102n]
- Telegraph service, Extension of, [77]-[80];
- actual cost, [78]
- Telegraph stations, Number of, in 1865, [44];
- Telegraph systems of United Kingdom and those of Belgium and Switzerland, Distinction between, [36];
- Telegraphists, Average weekly wages paid to, by companies, [127]-[128];
- wages increased after transfer to Post Office, [129];
- Lord Cavendish on organized agitation by, [133]-[134];
- table of ages and wages of, [141n];
- Earl Compton on grievances of the, [143];
- cost of concessions to, [145], [172];
- promotion of, blocked, [153]-[154];
- demand of, [155]-[156];
- neglected to improve themselves, [157];
- false statements by, [158]-[160];
- C. H. Kerry on work required of, [168]-[169];
- maximum salary of, raised, [170]-[172];
- complaints of, endorsed by A. K. Rollit, [174]-[176];
- threaten to strike, [174];
- concessions to, [180];
- grievance of examination, [190];
- charge of breach of contract, [194], [201]-[202];
- senior, promoted from first class, [329];
- by examination, [330]-[331];
- first class complained of grievance, [331], [333];
- increase in promotions, [334];
- complaint, [334]-[335];
- intervention for second class by H. L. W. Lawson, [336]-[337];
- Capt. Norton intervenes for, [338];
- demand amalgamation into a single class, [342]-[343];
- reject opportunities and demand more pay, [344]-[345];
- seek intervention to prevent transfer as sorters, [346]-[348];
- grievances as to pensions, [356]
- Telegraphs, Purchase of the, [3], [57]-[76];
- high price paid, [4]-[5];
- estimated cost and revenue, [58];
- terms of the purchase, [59]-[60];
- Scudamore and Hunt on, [62]-[63];
- estimated revenue, [63], [82];
- transferred to Post Office Department, [75];
- actual cost of to Government, [75];
- cost of extension and rearrangement, [78]-[79];
- earnings, 1880-81, [104];
- become self-supporting, [104]-[105];
- failed to earn operating expenses, [110];
- might have remained self-supporting, [112];
- subsidize newspaper press, [113]-[124];
- rate charged, [117];
- Committee on increased cost of service, [118]-[119];
- subsidize pool-rooms, [124]-[126];
- extension of, a purchase of votes out of the public purse, [379];
- would yield a profit in hands of a commercial company, [386]
- Telegraphs more freely used in Switzerland and Belgium than in the United Kingdom, [53], [81]
- Telephone, Competition from, [181]
- Telephone industry hampered by the State, [387]-[389], [392]
- Telephone royalties included in gross receipts, [89]
- Times, The, on Bradford Committee Report, [216]-[217]
- Tipping, E. J., on the Crompton case, [292]
- Towns, English and Welsh, Telegraphic facilities in, [
48648n], [45]-[48] - Trades union spirit, Development of a, [302]-[304]
- Tradesman, Small, did not use telegraph, [16]
- Traffic, Growth of, and tariffs, [50]-[53]
- Transit messages profitable in Belgium, [22];
- in Switzerland, [24]
- Treasury, The, on Civil Service pressure, [132];
- Treasury, Lords Commissioners of the, on accepting recommendations of Tweedmouth Committee, [172]-[173]
- Trenan, E., on lack of knowledge of technics in telegraph clerks, [270]
- Tribunal, A permanent non-political suggested, [232]
- Turner, ——, Case of, [159]
- Tweedmouth Committee, Testimony before, [137], [141]-[142];
- membership of, [163]-[164], [165];
- Report, [165]-[181];
- L. Hill before the, [166]-[167];
- H. C. Fischer, [167]-[168];
- C. H. Kerry, [168]-[169];
- recommendations of, [170]-[172];
- recommendations of accepted, [172];
- sharply criticized by A. K. Rollit, [173]-[176];
- a one-sided tribunal, [211];
- did not give satisfaction, [218];
- increase of expenses by, [221];
- testimony showing leniency of Post Office Department with offenders, [306]-[318];
- special grievances cited to the, [289]-[291];
- on risk allowances, [349];
- on pay for letter sorters, [349]-[350];
- on holidays, [350];
- grievances laid before, [355]-[359];
- evidence before, shows the visible helplessness of governments, [358]-[359]
- United Kingdom, Telegraph facilities in 1865, [43]-[44];
- telegrams to inhabitants in, [53]
- United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company, organized with uniform tariff irrespective of distance, [29];
- United Kingdom Telegraph Company, [40];
- Government purchase of, [58]
- Universal Private Company, Property of, purchased, [73]
- Uren, J. G., on transfers of postmasters, [287];
- on blocking officers by pensioners, [340]
- Vacancy, suburban, Interference in the filling of a, [299]-[300]
- Verney, Sir Harry, moves enfranchisement of revenue officers, [94]
- Vested rights doctrine of the Civil Service, [153], [155];
- Vincent, Sir Edgar, on dismissal of incompetent officers, [259]-[260]
- Wages and salaries of employees raised by political pressure, [91]-[92], [105], [110], [137]-[140];
- caused decrease of revenue, [109];
- average weekly, paid to telegraphists by companies, [127]-[128];
- increase in after transfer to Post Office, [129];
- Fawcett revision of, [131];
- Lord Cavendish on, [133]-[134];
- Raikes revision of, [140]-[147];
- increased expenditures from, [160]-[161], [172], [180];
- no justification for raising maximum, [168];
- Tweedmouth Committees’ recommendations on, [170]-[171];
- adopted, [172];
- further raise of, by Norfolk-Hanbury Committee, [180];
- cost of, [180]-[181];
- continued pressure for increase, [182]-[213];
- comparative, [230]
- Walker, J. R., passed over, [291]
- Walpole, Spencer, member of Tweedmouth Committee, [163], [165], [177];
- Ward, J., member of Select Committee, Intervention by, [316]-[317]
- Wastefulness of the Government’s operation, [5];
- Weaver, H., on the newspaper tariff, [118]-[119]
- Webster, letter carrier, disciplined for misconduct, [307]-[8]
- Welby, Sir Reginald E., Testimony of, before Royal Commission on Civil Service pressure, [137]-[138];
- on power to remove incompetent employees, [251]-[253], [259];
- on probationary period, [260]-[261];
- on pensions, [263];
- on abolition terms, [264];
- on a six or seven hour day, [325]-[326];
- on vacations, [351];
- on power of public opinion on Treasury control of expenditures, [363]-[365];
- on power of Treasury to limit number of clerks, [370]-[371]
- West, Sir Algernon E., Testimony of, before Royal Commission on Civil Service pressure, [138]-[139];
- Whips, Government, [361]-[362]
- Whitehall system of inspection inefficient, [320]-[322]
- Wiles, T., Intervention by, [317]
- Wireless telegraphy restricted from competition with government telegraph monopoly, [389]-[390]
- Women telegraphists, Promotion of, questioned, [293]-[294]
- Wood, ——, Interference in behalf of, [294]-[295]
- Wood, Sir Charles, on reduction in number of Junior Lords, [362]
- Woodhouse, ——, postman at Norwich, Case of, [310]-[311]
- Woods, Samuel, Motion of, for right to agitate, [183]-[187];
- lost, [187]
- Work, Maximum of, provided for, [219]
- Writers and their importance, [353]-[354]
- Wykes, ablest man in Sheffield office, displaced after promotion, [283], [305], [381]
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| page | as printed | changed to |
|---|---|---|
| 32 | premanent | permanent |
| 103 | augumented | augmented |
| 154 | extraordinarly | extraordinarily |
| 196 | unbiassed | unbiased |
| 301 | indefinately | indefinitely |
| 327 | Commissoin | commission |
| 407 | 486 | 48n |