The British State Telegraphs A Study of the Problem of a Large Body of Civil Servants in a Democracy
CHAPTER X
THE TWEEDMOUTH COMMITTEE REPORT 165
The Government accepts all recommendations made by the Committee. Sir Albert K. Rollit, one of the principal champions in the House of Commons of the postal employees, immediately follows with a Motion "intended to reflect upon the Report of the Tweedmouth Committee." Mr. Hanbury, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, intimates that it may become necessary to disfranchise the civil servants. The Treasury accepts the recommendations of the so-called Norfolk-Hanbury Committee. The average of expenses on account of wages and salaries rises from 11.54 cents per telegram in 1895-96, to 13.02 cents in 1902-03, concomitantly with an increase in the number of telegrams from 79,423,000 to 92,471,000.