Cheeseman, ----, dismissed for political activity, 183 Childers, H. C. E., opposed reduction of charges for telegrams, 107 Churchfield, Charles, Misrepresentations made by, 159-60; on the Roberts case, 309-10 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, 249-50 Civil servants, Problem of a large body of, in a Democracy, 3; 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, 158-60; positions as, sought and retained, 161-62; Government compromises with, 163; too much political pressure from, 177, 188-89; disfranchisement of suggested, 178; concessions to by Norfolk-Hanbury Committee, 180; demand right to agitate, 183-87; Commons the Court of Appeal for, 184-85, 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, 238-39; hosts of non-economical demands granted to, 381; political activities of, 382 Civil Service should be kept out of politics, 234-36; a Prime Minister on the, 237-38; spirit of the, 323-59; implied contract between the State and the, 324, 381 Civil Service head of an office can alone influence expenses, 369; not thanked for services, 369, 385, 386 Civil Service pressure, The Treasury on, 132-34; evidence as to in 1888, 137-40; Earl Compton's part in, 142-43, 145; W. Ambrose disgusted at, 145 Civil Service unions, Intervention of, in behalf of the individual, 245, 246; opposed promotion by merit, 267-68; active in election campaigns, 382; more injurious to public interest than any combination of capital, 392 Civil Services Expenditure, Select Committee on, 1873, Testimony of Sir Wm. H. Stephenson before, on dismissal of State servants, 247; testimony given before, 373 Claims of the telegraph companies, 72 Class, R. W. Hanbury on a new social, 188 Class bribery displacing personal, 246; a result of public ownership, 378, 387, 391 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