State employment means life employment, 247 Statistics of telegraph lines and facilities, 42-45 Steadman, W. C., demands a Select Committee on causes of complaint, 187; motion lost, 189; moved reduction of Postmaster General's salary, 189; lost, 193; third demand, 193; lost, 198; cites special cases of grievance, 195-96; on this question business, 315-16 Stephenson, Sir Wm. H., on dismissal of State servants, 247-48; on cost of pensions of incompetents, 263; on promotions, 268 Superannuation Act, Committee on operation of, 262 Swiss experience, 24-26, 28 Switzerland, Reports on users of telegraph in, 17; effect of reduction of rates, 18; telegraph introduced in, 38; appropriated by the Government, 38; statistics, 42; increased use in, 51; telegrams to inhabitants in, 53 Table of ages and wages of provincial telegraphists, 141n Tariff on telegrams reduced, 91, 92; cut almost in two, 109; Government should have resisted vote to cut in two, 379 Tariffs and growth of traffic, 50-53 Taylor, postman of Sterling, Case of, 195 Telegrams, Proportion of, to letters sent, 18; tariff on, reduced by House of Commons, 91, 92; cut almost in two, 109 Telegraph of no use in times of peace, 37 Telegraph clerks, Lack of knowledge of technics by, 270-71; demanded reduction of hours, 328; intervention for at Halifax, 348 Telegraph companies, Indictment of, 15; proposal of the, 56; unpopular, 61; sums to be paid to, 72n Telegraph deficit, Aggregate, 90; Parliament responsible for, 91-92 Telegraph Department, Report on deficits in, with statistics, 110-11, 181; not earning operating expenses, 220 Telegraph employees, Good-will of, purchased out of public purse, 380 Telegraph lines, Cost of rearranging and extending, 45, 49; estimated, 58 Telegraph messages, and revenue from, 104-5, 111n Telegraph offices in United Kingdom, 19; non-paying, 102n Telegraph service, Extension of, 77-80; actual cost, 78 Telegraph stations, Number of, in 1865, 44; distances from Post Office, 47; open to the public, 81n; number of increased, 104 Telegraph systems of United Kingdom and those of Belgium and Switzerland, Distinction between, 36; comparative use of, 51-52