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...Amer. Archaeol. 1, 20a, 20b, Peabody...
...necessary development. A. The cause of the inefficiency of Congress is its inaction (North Am. Rev., 151, p. 396). B. This inaction is caused by 1. Enormous increase in legislation (Hart: Practical Essays, p. 5.) 2. Obstinate opposition of minority (Follett: The Speaker of House, p. 180; Bryce: Amer. Common., I, p. 134). C. The increased power of the Speaker tends to counteract these two causes of inaction. 1. It facilitates sifting legislation in committee (Follett, ch. viii; Bryce: Amer. Common., I, pp. 165-173). (a) The Speaker's power of appointment has the tendency to make the committee effective...
...ounce of silver, but simply coin all silver presented, and return it to owner. (b) All history shows that the unlimited coinage of an article has never been able to raise it to a level with gold, the market price having been beneath gold (Fiske: Critical Period of Amer. Hist. 1784-89; Blaine: Thirty Years in Congress, Vol. I.; Macaulay's History, Vol. I, II). (5) Free coinage would not give us bimetallism. (a) All our gold would be exported or hoarded, according to Gresham's Law. (Newspapers during panic of 1893). (b) We would be on a silver monometallic...
...Amer. Archaeol. 1, 20, Peabody...
Best general references: Party Platform, World's Almanac for 1893, p. 83; Sub-Treasury Warehouse Scheme, World's Almanac, 1891, p. 94; C. W. Wiley in Amer. Jl. Politics, 5:651 (Dec., 1894); F. B. Tracy in Forum 16:244 (Oct., 1893); Rise and Doom of the Populist Party; F. M. Drew in Pol. Sci. Quar. 6; 282 (June, 1891); The Present Farmers' Movement, J. F. Vaile in Forum 18: 714 (Feb., 1895); Colorado's Experiment with Populism; Public Opinion...