WHAT IT COSTS AN M.P.
An unsigned nrticlo in tho February "Blackwood" details some of the demands made'on tlio purso of a member of Parliament. The writer states that during his first year as a candidate lie expended about £750 in donations and subscriptions, ovor and above his customary vails and charities, and in the second year a littlo nioro—between- £1500 and £1600—on what may lie called "ground bait." Tho writer says ho knows ono member who pays away about £4000 annually to ' his constituents. Tho Bribery Acts, ho adds, are useless; tho money is spent precisely for'the same purposes as in tho bad old days, the only gain being that soir.o of the mendicant bodies to which money goes are roally of use in the oommunittf. •
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 160, 31 March 1908, Page 5
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127WHAT IT COSTS AN M.P. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 160, 31 March 1908, Page 5
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