"How it was to be done, was not for him to say, but he had suggested, and he still thought that there would have to be some organization outside party politics altogether, and unconnected with and unmoved by Parliament and political considerations, to whom such questions should be referred and by whom an impartial opinion should be given.... He wanted now rather to anticipate a request that would probably be made by Honorable Members opposite--that he should appoint a Parliamentary Committee. To that request he would have to give a negative reply, and he would say why. First, too great political pressure would be brought to bear on the Committee; second, the whole case of the Post Office employees was before the House in the evidence taken by the Bradford Committee, and everybody could make up his mind as well as he would be able to if appointed to a Select Committee. Third, he would not throw the responsibility on to a Committee; it was his place to bear it himself." On July 18, Lord Stanley, Postmaster General, stated that he would neither withdraw nor modify the epithets "blackmail" and "blood-sucking" which he had used. He stated that those epithets applied "only to those who by speeches, letters or circulars, attempt unduly to influence the votes of Honorable Members with regard to the questions affecting Post Office wages, and to those who associate themselves with such action."[234] [Sidenote: _Captain Norton on Civil Service Agitation_] After the Postmaster General had spoken, Captain Norton moved a reduction of the Post Office Vote, for the purpose of drawing attention to the grievances of long standing of the Post Office employees. He said: "As regarded what had been said about undue influence, his contention was that so long as the Postal officials, or should he say the members of the Civil Service, and for that matter the members of the fighting services were allowed to maintain a vote, they had precisely the same rights as all other voters in the country to exercise their fullest influence in the defense of their rights, privileges and interests. He might mention that all classes of all communities, all professions, all trades, all combinations of individuals, such as anti-vaccinationists and so forth, had invariably used their utmost pressure in defense of their interests and views upon Members of the House...."[235] Sir Albert K. Rollit supported Captain Norton's motion. [Sidenote: _Chancellor of the Exchequer asks for non-Party Vote_]