Class interests, The Commons the champion of, 366-68 Class legislation to be avoided, 12 Cleghorn, J., on power of the Treasury, 370-71 Clerks, Lower division, Salaries of, 170n Clery, ----, dismissed for political activity, 183, 185; on political pressure, 186 Cochrane-Baillie, C. W. A. N., Query of, on press telegrams, 122 Commission on Civil Establishments, The Royal, on pressure for increased wages, 137-40 Committee of the Indoor Staff, Report of, the basis for the Raikes' revision of wages, 41; not approved by civil servants, 142-43 Committee on Revenue Department Estimates, Questions of chairman of, on salary increase under Fawcett, 136-37 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; demands a Select Committee, 143, 145, 151; intervened for a sorter reduced for cause, 314 Consolidation of telegraph companies, Argument for, 54-55; the companies' proposal, 56 Continuous counting of sporting messages, 125-26 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, 291-92 Crosse, F. T., complains against promotion by merit, 284-85; on retention of pensioners in service, 340 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, 335-36 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, 324-28; W. E. Baxter on, 324-25; Sir R. E. Welby on, 335-26; H. H. Fowler on, 326; Sir T. H. Farrer on, 327-28 Decentralization of administration, Necessity of, in Post Office, 318-20, 383 Depreciation of plant, Cost of, 79 Discipline, Proper, should be preserved, 149; typical cases of enforced leniency in, 306-18 Discontent in Postal and Telegraph Service, 150-51, 158; emphasized by A. K. Rollit, 174-76; widespread, 218; premium on, 222 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, 347-48 Dockyard laborers not disfranchised, 96 Dual duty men, 285-86 Du Cane, Sir Charles, on getting rid of incompetent public employees, 249-50; on promotion by merit in the Customs, 273 Duplex telegraphy, 93