Foreign experience in State operation, 17; summary, 28 Foreign messages profitable in Belgium, 22; in Switzerland, 24 Foreman, B. J., Pension asked for, by L. Sinclair, 314 Foster, M. H., on claims for reversionary rights, 70-71 Fowler, Sir H. H., on the tone in the House, 278; protests against Postmaster General sitting in House of Lords, 304; on a six or seven hour day, 326 Fowler, W., on contingent liabilities, 75, 76 France, Government of, appropriates the telegraph, 38; increased use in, 51 France, Percentage of personal and social messages in, 18; number of offices in, 19, 20 Freehold of provision for life, Employee of the State has, 247, 380 French experience, 26, 28 French State telegraphs run at loss, 26 Garland, C. H., on service rendered by T. Bayley, 228 Giffen, Robert, on pensions to men reorganized out of service, 264 Gladstone, W. E., on class influence in House of Commons, 6-7, 97-98; on securing pledges from candidates, 149; rescinds Fergusson's warning, 150; tribute of, to Joseph Hume, 371-74a Gladstone Ministry, 73 Glasgow, Extension of service in, 78 Glasgow postmaster's mistake, 269-70 Godley, Sir A., member of Tweedmouth Committee, 163, 165 Goldsmid, J., on overmanning offices, 371 Gorst, Sir John Eldon, on expenditure of public money on education, 320; on mismanagement arising from intervention of House of Commons, 322; on power of Treasury to make inquiries not exercised, 369; on efficiency in business and government offices, 370, 385-86 Goschen, G. J., on the evidence before Select Committee, 65-66; on reversionary rights of the railways, 66-67; questioned Mr. Scudamore on his estimates, 86-87 Government, The problem of, and its solution, 12 Government, The, ignorant of relations between telegraph companies and railways, 57-58; obliged to purchase reversionary rights, 64; should have resisted demands of railways, 69; its estimate of total sum, 72. Government clerks, Scale of wages for, recommended by Playfair Commission, 130 Governments, The visible helplessness of, 359 Gower, G. G. Leveson, Questions of, on promotion, 269 Graves, Edward, on promotion for ability, 270 Green, James, on cases of Richardson and Walker, 290-91 Grievance, Abolition of a, in turn a grievance, 342 Grievances, Typical, 306-18 Grimston, Robert, on consolidation of telegraph companies, 54-55 Groves, J. G., Intervention by, 315 Guarantees required for new telegraph offices, 99, 100-1; check on log-rolling, 101; agitation for reduction of, 102-3 Hamilton, Sir Edward, on support of Treasury in House of Commons, 368