Страница - 139Страница - 141- Badcock, J. C., before Tweedmouth Committee, [167]-[168], [296];
- on redundant first class newspaper sorters in Post Office, [258]-[259];
- on squeezing through, [280];
- on promotion, [290];
- on Roberts case, [309];
- on Worth case, [312];
- on the malingerers’ grievance, [357]-[358]
- 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];
- on travelling expenses of county court judges, [354];
- on pressure brought by Members of Parliament on Financial Secretary, [374]-[377]
- 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];
- Belgium, Percentage of personal and social messages in, [18];
- number of offices in, [19];
- figuring cost in, [20];
- experience of, [21]-[24], [28];
- Telegraph introduced in, by British company, [38];
- Government of, appropriates the new industry, [38];
- statistics, [42];
- increased use in, [51];
- telegrams to inhabitants, [53]
- 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];
- answers questions on increase of salaries under Fawcett, [136]-[137];
- on removal of inefficient employees, [250]-[251];
- advice from, refused by Mr. Raikes, [275];
- on trades union spirit among clerks, [302]-[303]
- 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];
- messages carried by, and receipts, [50]-[51];
- Government purchase of, [58]
- 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];
- on case of T. Reilly, [308];
- on number of applications by members of the Commons, [316]
- 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];
- sums on which revenue would have paid interest, [90], [104]
- Cavendish, Lord Frederick, debate on Fawcett revision of wages, [132];
- letter on agitation in postal service for increased wages, [133]-[134]
- 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];
- opposed promotion by merit, [267]-[268];
- active in election campaigns, [382];
- more injurious to public interest than any combination of capital, [392]
- 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];
- typical cases of enforced leniency in, [306]-[318]
- 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];
- made inadequate investigation of cost of nationalization, [57]-[58];
- replaced by the Gladstone Ministry, [73];
- protest of, against enfranchising civil servants in revenue departments, [6], [95]-[96]
- 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];
- organized, [38];
- first dividend declared, [39];
- growth of, and prices of stock[190];
- paid ten per cent., [41];
- messages carried by, and receipts, [50];
- Government purchase of, [58];
- earnings of the, [60], [74], [85];
- shares of, did not rise, [70]
- Electric light, Spread of the, hampered, [389]
- English companies, Experience of, [29]-[35]
- Equality, Mechanical, demanded, [341];
- 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];
- estimated cost of, [84]-[85];
- under-estimated by one-half, [88]-[89];
- proportion of, to gross revenue, [89n];
- augmented, [103];
- average per telegram, [103n];
- increase through raise in wages, [105]
- Extension of telegraph service, [77]-[80];
- estimated cost of, [49];
- estimated vs. actual expenditure for, [78]-[79];
- effect of, unremunerative, [99]
- Farrer, Sir T. H., on real difficulty of public service in getting rid of bad men, [253]-[255], [256];
- declared promotion by routine the real evil, [271];
- put proper men at the top, [272];
- on a six or seven hour day, [327]-[328]
- Fawcett, Henry, increased pay of telegraph operators, [131];
- on increased salaries of telegraph employees, [135]-[136];
- horror of passing over any one, [279], [306];
- created class of telegraph clerks, [328];
- class of senior telegraphists, [329]
- 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];
- issues a warning, [148];
- on proper discipline, [149];
- on conditions in the Civil Service, [163];
- on employees taking part in politics, [183]-[184]
- 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];
- on examination of telegraphists, [330]-[331];
- on optional retirement at fifty, [356]
- Fisher, Hayes, on public expenditure, [365]
- Foreign experience in State operation, [17];
- Foreign messages profitable in Belgium, [22];
- 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];
- protests against Postmaster General sitting in House of Lords, [304];
- on a six or seven hour day, [326]
- Fowler, W., on contingent liabilities, [75], [76]
- France, Government of, appropriates the telegraph, [38];
- 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];
- on securing pledges from candidates, [149];
- rescinds Fergusson’s warning, [150];
- tribute of, to Joseph Hume, [371]-[374]
- 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];
- on mismanagement arising from intervention of House of Commons, [322];
- on power of Treasury to make inquiries not exercised, [369];
- on efficiency in business and government offices, [370], [385]-[386]
- Goschen, G. J., on the evidence before Select Committee, [65]-[66];
- on reversionary rights of the railways, [66]-[67];
- questioned Mr. Scudamore on his estimates, [86]-[87]
- Government, The problem of, and its solution, [12]
- Government, The, ignorant of relations between telegraph companies and railways, [57]-[58];
- obliged to purchase reversionary rights, [64];
- should have resisted demands of railways, [69];
- its estimate of total sum, [72].
- 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];
-
on increased expenditures, [160n];
- on Civil Service positions, [162n];
- no service like the public service, [166]-[167];
- recommendation to Tweedmouth Committee, [167];
- on comparison of postmen with other classes of employment, [257]-[258];
- on messenger boys in Post Office Department, [261]
- Hobhouse, C. E. H., Intervention by, [300]
- Hobson, Mr., postmaster at Glasgow, obliged to promote by seniority, [269];
- 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];
- on uses of telegraph, [17];
- on estimated cost of and revenue from the telegraphs, [58];
- on the terms of purchase, [63];
- on purchase of reversionary rights, [64];
- on civil servants, [96]-[97]
- Incompetents, Difficulty of removing, [247]-[257], [259];
- reorganized out of service on pensions, [262]-[263];
- cost of pensions to, [263];
- juniors doing work of, [270]
- 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];
- Inland traffic, Attempt to develop in Belgium, [21]-[22];
- 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];
- declares promotion of telegraphists blocked, [153];
- statement of, declared misleading by Mr. Morley, [154]-[155];
- grievances of the auxiliary staff, [155]
- 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]