In Committee of Supply on Wednesday there was an animated
debate on the Post Office Vote. Mr. Hohhonse announced that the Government had decided (1) to appoint a small Expert Committee to inquire into the recommendations of the Holt Committee, and (2) to set up at the earliest possible moment some body to consider the relations of the State towards its employees in all Departments. The division on the Post Office Vote gave the Government a majority of only fifty-four, which, but for the concessions made by Mr. Hobhouse, would probably have sunk much lower. We may note that earlier in the evening, under the Ten Minutes Rule, Major Archer-Shee brought in a Bill to amend the law relating to companies incorporated outside the United Kingdom. In the course of his speech he referred to the circumstances of the flotation of the American Marine Company, and maintained that it ought to be out of the power of the directors of a foreign company which came to this country for money to pass resolutions which prevented the English shareholders from having a proper hold over the company.
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