On the subject of the payment of Members Mr. Cox
is certain that it is from every point of view undesirable that Members of Parliament should vote salaries to themselves without first obtaining by means of a Referendum the explicit sanction of the nation which has to provide the money. He is opposed to Welsh Disestablishment on the ground that any such measure must involve the forcible appropriation by the State of property entrusted to the Church, and he is prepared to resist any measure for financially handicapping the Voluntary schools. In conclusion, he strongly condemns the financial extravagance of the present Administration. their multiplication of officials, and their arbitrary penalisation of particular forms of property. The Unionist members of the Senate meet on the day we go to press to select a candidate,
and it is understood that the names of Mr. Charles Parsons, F.R.S., the famous marine engineer, and of Mr. T. E. Page will be submitted. There is a strong and natural desire that Cambridge should be represented by some one thoroughly conversant with academic needs, and the claims of Mr. T. E. Page as an eminent scholar, an educationist, and an admirable public speaker are above cavil ; but opinion inclines to the selection of Mr. Parsons. Mr. Parsons, great inventive genius though he is, cannot be said to meet these "academie "require- ments, and if the choice should lie between him and a man of the tried Parliamentary experience and distinction of Mr. Harold Cox, we cannot be in doubt as to which candidate the University would do well to choose with a view to rendering a service to the State.
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