[218] Hansard’s Parliamentary Debates, July 6, 1905, p. 1,390; Lord Stanley.
[219] The Times, September 17, 1904: Correspondence.
[220] The Times, September 12, 1904, denominated this episode “a melancholy and even ominous illustration of the process of democratic degeneration.” In the same issue Mr. S. W. Belderson writes that 130 Members of the House signed the paragraph in question.
[221] The Times, August 10, 1904.
[222] Report of the Inter-Departmental Committee on Post Office Establishments, 1897; q. 13,804; Mr. S. Walpole, Permanent Secretary of the Post Office.
[223] The Times, March 17, 1906; and Who’s Who, 1905.
[224] Fifty-first Report of the Postmaster General, 1905.