School Board of London, Influence of, 321 Schwann, C. E., Intervention by, 298-99 Scudamore, F. I., commissioned to report on private and State telegraphs, 4, 13; report of, 14-22; reports based on incomplete returns, 42-45; errors in his figures, 44-45, 79, 80; standards of service, 45-48; errors of estimate of cost of extension and operation, 49; misleading comparison of telegrams with letters, 52-53; failure of his evidence, 54; argued for State monopoly, 55-56; previously opposed the same, 56n; on a Post Office system of telegraphs, 61-62; on the terms of purchase, 62; estimated cost, 63, 64; cross-examination of, 65-66n, 68n; ignorant of relations between telegraph and railway companies, 68; report on reorganization of telegraphs, 78n; estimate of revenue, 63, 81-82; influence over two ministries, 81; argues from penny postage, 82; revenue forecasts, 83-87; increase of messages, 84; gross revenue, 84; working expenses, 84-85; stood by his estimates, 86-87; revenue predictions of, appalling blunders, 87; responsible for, 92; to committee of newspaper proprietors, 115-16; yields to newspaper demand, 117 Select Committee on Post Office Servants, Composition of, and reference to, 243; asks for reappointment, 244 Service, Mr. Scudamore's standards of, 45-48 Service, Change in conditions of, resisted, 351-53 Shares, Proposed way of selling, 56 Shaw Lefevre, G. J., on the reduction of the tariff on telegrams, 108-10 Shehan, D. D., Intervention by, 297 Shephard, J., Complaints of, before Tweedmouth Committee, 289-90, 295-96 Sloan, T. H., Intervention by, 300-1, 313 Smith, J. S., on the Webster case, 307; on Woodhouse case, 310-11 Smith, Llewellyn, member of Tweedmouth Committee, 164, 165, 177 Smith, W. H., on the purchase of the telegraphs, 60 Smyth, Thomas, Intervention of, for Thomas Reilly, 308 Sorters of foreign letters, Option of vested interest for, 332-33; complaint from second class, 333 Speculator and dividend seeker, The mere, 37 Split duties, Complaint about, 155 Sporting messages sent gratuitously, 125; to so-called hotels, 126 Staff appointments the salt of the Service, 271n Staff of men highly trained in the school of competition, 5 Stanley (of Alderly), Lord E. J. S., ordered report on Post Office Telegraph Service, 13; on Bradford Committee's Report, 222-24, 229-30; would not receive circulars from members of House, 223; cost of recommendations, 224, 230; made own investigation and granted increased pay, 225, 230; would bear responsibility, 233; congratulated on his retirement, 244; on promotion for merit, 301; on dual duty, 347 Stansfeld, James, on difference between public and private establishment, 248-49 State, Result of extending the functions of the, 12