THE BRITISH MINISTRY
LONDON, June 8. The members of the Cabinet, including the Lord Chancellor (£10,000), have agreed to pool their salaries. Each member will in future receive £4271. Mr Asquith (£5000) is excluded from the scheme. On the question of salary, Sir' A. B. Markham objected to the reported pooling of Ministerial salaries.(Disorder.) Mr Asquith said he was surprised and pained. If they were going to discuss how Ministers disposed of their salaries, that was an end to all the decencies of public life. He absolutely declined to acknowledge the right of the House to inquire how a Minister spent his .salary. He would never consent to hold office under such conditions. N The matter then dropped.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3196, 16 June 1915, Page 57
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