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General references: Follett: The Speaker of the House of Representatives, chs. VII-XI. Hurt: Practical Essays, p. 1-20. Bryce: American Commonwealth, I, pp. 124-164. Reed: Parliamentary Rules. North American Review...
Best general references: James Bryce, American Commonwealth, I, 134-137; J. G. Carlisle, The Limitations of the Speaker, No. Am. Rev. 150: 382 et seq.; A. B. Hart, The Speaker as Premier in his Practical Essays, No. R. Q. Mills No. Am. Rev., 149: 664-670. T. Nelson, The Powers of the Speaker, Atlantic Mon., LXIV: 64 et seq.; Arena, V, 569-579 (Apr.); Johns Hopkins University Studies, XI, No. 2, The Speaker of the House of Representatives...
...American constitution is a direct protest against one man power. Constitution Art. I, II, III. B The power of appointing all (sixty) committees is contrary to this spirit (1) Lodges in one man power to shape every bill presented. (Nelson, Atlantic Mon., LXIV, 69,) (2). Such power with an unprincipled speaker would work inconceivable ruin. (Nelson, Atlantic Mon., LXIV, 7). (3) Such power even with a good speaker is bad; (a) Likely to cause irremedial mistakes. (b) The committees are so numerous that many must be composed of men of small calibre. C It is arbitrary powers deprive members...
...semi-annual elections to the two literary societies took place last week, the American Whig Society having 108 new members, mostly from the entering class, and the Cliosophic Society...
...first number of The College Republican, the official organ of the American Republican College League appeared yesterday. The paper is edited by William B. Wolffe of the Graduate School. Besides several pictures and considerable news from college Republican Clubs, the issue contains an abstract of an address made in Worcester on the currency question, by E. H. Warren of the Graduate School...