Eastern Telegraph Cable Company, Work required by, 169 _Economist, The_, on nationalization, 61; on Bradford Committee Report, 216 Economy, Parliament has never an influence for, in expenditure for education, 320; change of public opinion toward, 364-65; a voice in defence of, wanted, 367-68, 373 Edinburgh, Extension of service in, 78 Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce leads in demand for lower charges, 3, 5, 81 Electoral disabilities, Acts for relief of, 184n Electric and International Telegraph Company, Rates, 29-30n; organized, 38; first dividend declared, 39; growth of, and prices 190; paid ten per cent., 41; messages carried by, and receipts, 50; Government purchase of, 58; earnings of the, 60, 74, 85; shares of, did not rise, 70 Electric light, Spread of the, hampered, 389 English companies, Experience of, 29-35 Equality, Mechanical, demanded, 341; not opportunity, 343 Examination of first class telegraphists for promotion, 330-31 Executive ability, Deplorable waste of, by intervention, 318-19, 383-84 Executive's power of dismissal, Curtailment of, 245-66; power of promotion curtailed, 267-301 Expense, Enormous increase of, 146, 151, 160-61, 180, 200 Expenses, operating, Cost of, to State, 49; estimated cost of, 84-85; under-estimated by one-half, 88-89; proportion of, to gross revenue, 89n; augmented, 103; average per telegram, 103n; increase through raise in wages, 105 Extension of telegraph service, 77-80; estimated cost of, 49; estimated _vs._ actual expenditure for, 78-79; effect of, unremunerative, 99 Farrer, Sir T. H., on real difficulty of public service in getting rid of bad men, 253-55, 256; declared promotion by routine the real evil, 271; put proper men at the top, 272; on a six or seven hour day, 327-28 Fawcett, Henry, increased pay of telegraph operators, 131; on increased salaries of telegraph employees, 135-36; horror of passing over any one, 279, 306; created class of telegraph clerks, 328; class of senior telegraphists, 329 Fawcett Association, Pledge contained in circular issued by the, 148n Fawcett Revision of wages, 1881, 131, 137, 152; increased expenditures from, 160-61 Fay, Samuel, member of Bradford Committee, 213, 214 Feasey, E. C., Intervention for, by J. Ward, 316-17 Fergusson, Sir James, on political circulars issued by civil servants, 147-48; issues a warning, 148; on proper discipline, 149; on conditions in the Civil Service, 163; on employees taking part in politics, 183-84 Financial failure of State telegraphs, Reasons for, 99, 103-10 Financial Secretary, Duties of the, 361, 363 Fischer, H. C., before Tweedmouth Committee, 167-68, 169-70; on examination of telegraphists, 330-31; on optional retirement at fifty, 356 Fisher, Hayes, on public expenditure, 365