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Best general references; Woodrow Wilson, Congressional Government, pp. 242-292; Bryce. American Commonwealth, vol. I ch. IX. Gamaliel Bradford, The Practical Working of Our Government, and in Annals of the Amer. Acad. of Pol. and Soc. Science, November 1891; P. 1-11 Report of Senate Committee 46 Congress, 3d Sess; Willard Brown. Atlantic Monthly, vol. 50. p. 95, July, 1882. Joseph Story on Constitution Section 869; Nation, vol. 28. 243 et passim. Pendleton's Speech, Cong Record...
...These evils would be largely avoided if Cabinet members could participate in the debates, - (a) This is shown (1) by the example of England; Practical working of our Government, p. 13 f. and -(2) By the example of France and Italy; Annals of Amer. Acad., p. 5. - (b) Congress would better understand the needs of the country which are known to the executive department; Atlantic p. 96.- (c) There would be less opportunity for Cabinet officers to evade inquiries of Congress; Wilson...
...listened to when advocating measures repugnant to Congress - (4) Written reports furnish better basis for sound legislation, because poor speakers would fail to give clear expositions, while good speakers could mislead; Morrill, 422. - (5) The committee system would continue to control legislation: Hart, Atlantic, LVII. 380; Hoar, North Amer. Review, CXXVIII, 121-2; Nation, XVI, 235. - (c) Responsibility would not be centralized, for unless cabinet directed all legislation - (1) Private members would introduce conflicting bills. - (2) Cabinet would advance privately any measures known to be unpopular. - (3) Responsibility would not be felt in the lack of any penalty...
...Huntington Walcott Fund, the income to be spent for books for the University Library, preference given to those on History, Pol. Econ., and Sociology; also $10,000 to found the Huntington Frothingham Walcott Fund, the income to be spent by the Trustees of the Peabody Museum of Amer. Arch. and Ethu. or their successors, for promotion of archaeological and ethnological research...
Best general references: Speech of H. C. Lodge in Congressional Record, p. 7053, 6-27, 1890; Lodge in N. Amer. Rev., Sept., 1890, vol. 151, p. 257; Powderly, N. Amer. Rev., vol. 151, p. 266; R. Smalls, N. Amer. Rev., Nov. 1890, vol. 151, p. 596; Schaffer, N. Amer. Rev., Nov. 1890, vol. 151, p. 601; J. Cook...