Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-04-28 | Page 25 | John Bull's Coming Election Will be His Most Expensive

John J hulls Bulls Coming C Election n Will dill Be His Most Lost Expensive I LO DON A Ajril 27 UP tAP AP The l election May 30 20 will be the most expensive in history from the standi bint bl bf fa the British to tax p payer pa er I Its legal cost is estimated ted at 12 pounds The latest estimate of the to total l tors tots I principally y women who w will willbo be bo added adde 1 to the register r May lay 1 will ru run up the cost By a recent r e lt law law- the amount mount which a candidate might spend was In invie vie view tit of th the enl enlargements ig of ot the electorate red reduced ed to 12 cents cens a voter in country divisions and 10 cents a voter In to boroughs In addition there are r a allowed low d the I salary of an election e ag-e agent 1 up to in coutry co try divisions and pounds In boroughs and nd the pers personal n l exp expenses ns s of a candidate Up tip to pounds 27 MILLION VOTERS The latest estimate o 0 the tota total ele ctol electorate te on th trite the new register re Is rather more than OOOO On a fair assumption that half h lf of f these are in country divisions and half haIt in boroughs the maximum permissible expenditure by the c candidates s of ot nil all 1 parties assuming a three cornered I contest in all cases Would be approximately ap approximately ap- ap proximately pounds T To this would have to be added the expenses of ot returning officers poll clerks hire of halls hans poling booths and other Incidental ex ex- ex These are fixed by treasury treasur scale and paid by the treasury out of the taxpayers taxpayers' money A sum of pounds is s already included In Included In- In id for the purpose in the estimates estimates estimates esti esti- mates of the year ear earThe The combined total expenditure legally permissible is therefore nearly neatly pounds as the direct I di- cost of selecting a hew parlia pl ment ADDITIONAL EXPENSE Additions Addition must be made mad f for r th the costs of bf posters 1 pamphlets pam tm- tm tS and other lIh literature I ture The amount 1 of this el expenditure never nenI ll is 1 fully lully discovered but some sohie idea of the sum involved ed may ay be he found in the fact f ct that a few months ago the lIb liberal party placed d a pound order for posters It is If expected that thal 1 the Ule conservative conserva conserva- tive and liberal candidates assisted assist assist- ed cd form th the immense resources s of f their party funds will m spend u up to the maximum in iii n almost every con COn- The socialist party art is for reasons of enforced econom economy budgeting budge for far an nn average expenditure expendi expendi- ture of 2250 pounds in each contest