PAYMENT OF MEMBERS.
[To TER EDIPOZ or TOP "Srserwrox.'q Snt,—If we are to have a General Election in July, your. remarks last week as to the position of the Unionist Party in regard to the payment of Members are not a bit too strong and are not made too soon. I cannot speak for England, but in Scotland, quite apart from the question of the principle involved, one of the most popular reforms the Unionist, Party could put in its programme would be the abolition of the "£8 a week." In the very Radical part of Scotland, up in the north-east corner, in Elgin and Banff, the only thing that seemed to annoy the faithful " Liberals " was the payment of Members. Larger issues were not so easily grappled with. Home Rule did not rouse them (they were in no danger of it themselves) ; angry as they were with the Insurance Act, it promised them some good ; but my canny fellow-countrymen cannot see the point of paying their Members of Parliament £400 a year when there are plenty of excellent people anxious to do the work for nothing I—I am, Sir, Sta., L A. M.
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