Raikes' Revision of wages and salaries, 1890-91, 140-47, 152; increased expenditures from, 160-61 Railway companies, M. H. Foster's views on reversionary rights of, 70-71; Government's proposition to, 71; cost of the reversionary rights, 75-76; wires released to, 78 Railways, Reversionary rights of the, in the telegraphs, 57; purchase of the, necessary, 64; Mr. Goschen on, 66-67; Mr. Scudamore's estimates for, erroneous, 68-69; leases of way-leaves, 69-70 Rates for messages, Control of, lost by the Government, 5, 91, 92; effect of reduction of, on increase of telegrams, 18; charged by British companies, 19; irrespective of distance, not remunerative, 28, 31-35; Mr. Scudamore's forecasts on, 83-84 Reformed Parliament, Class influence the great reproach of the, 6-7, 97-98 Reilly, Thomas, Case of, 308 Reorganization out of service, 262-66 Representation of the People Bill, 94 Reuter's Telegram Company, Property of, purchased, 73 Revenue, Estimated gross, 84; net, 86; proved appalling blunders, 87; receipts, 88-89; and interest on capital, 90-91n; net from messages, 104; large loss in, 109-10, 111; a diminished balance of, and increased expense, 146-47, 181 Revenue Department Estimates, Select Committee on, Report on deficit in Telegraph Department, 110-11 Revenue officers, Enfranchisement of proposed, 94; opposed by Disraeli, 95; carried by Mr. Monk, 96; G. W. Hunt on, 96-97; favored by Gladstone, 97, 184 Reversionary rights of railway companies, 69-70; sum paid for, 75; estimate of, and cost, 76 Richardson, ----, Case of, 290-91 Right, The Sole, to transmit messages by electricity acquired by the Government, 5 Roberts, ----, auxiliary postman, Case of, 308-9 Robinson, postman at Liverpool, appointed inspector, 281; case cited as a grievance to Tweedmouth Committee, 282 Rockingham, Marquis of, disfranchised revenue servants at their own request, 184, 185 Rollitt, Sir Albert K., on demands of telegraphists, 155; on examinations for promotion, 156; moved reduction of salary of Post Master General, 173; endorses complaints, 174-76; demands a Committee of business men, 176; withdrew amendment, 179; reminds Commons of civil servants' votes, 196; charges breach of contract, 202; record of, 224; supported Norton's motion, 234 Ronalds, Mr., attempts to interest British Government in telegraphy, 37 Rothschild, Baron F. de, on civil servants, 143 Royal Commission of 1888 declared promotion by seniority the great evil, 274 Rutherford, W. W., a merchant in politics, 227 Salary, _see_ Wages Salisbury Government succeeded by the Gladstone, 149 Samuel, H., intervenes for telegraph clerks at Oxford, 346 Saunders, Mr., on gratuitous sporting messages, 124-25 Schackleton, D. J., Intervention by, 353