Note 28 — Chapter III · The Alleged Break-down of Laissez-Faire

Report from the Select Committee on the Telegraphic Bill, 1869: q. 321 to 329. In 1868, Mr. Scudamore and the Government had said that the State ought not to be given the monopoly of the telegraph business. Special Report from the Select Committee on the Telegraphs Bill, 1868; q. 124 and following, 319 and 320, and 2,464 and following.