Word: chairman
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...present powers of the Speaker, as fixed by rule, are excessive.- (a) He practically makes the rules: Practical Essays. 15-17; 19th Century, XXVIII. 870.- (1) Appoints committee on rules.- (2) Is himself chairman of the committee.- (b) He interprets and applies the rules without appeal: Cong. Rec. 53 Cong. 2 Sess. 4667.- (c) He has unqualified veto power over every legislative action and also power to forward any measures: N. A. R. Vol. 150, 399; Nat. XXVI. 226; Practical Essays, p. 14; Cong. Rec. Vol. II. 43 Cong. 1st Sess. Appendix p. 25.- (1) He appoints the standing committees...
...question as to whether it is advisable to have proctors in the examination room was taken up by the Faculty about two months ago and a committee of which Professor Shaler was the chairman, was formed to find out the general feeling of the students on that subject. Since then several steps have been taken. Professor Wendell gave it out as a subject for themes and over three hundred were read, of which only two per cent opposed the present system. Several suggestions were made, such as the proctors should not wear squeaking boots, talk together in corners, or walk...
...Power of appointing committees.- (1) Speaker as party chief.- (2) Gives policy and method to Congressional action.- (b) Recognition.- (1) Party majority can present its programme.- (c) So-called veto power.- (1) Prevents loss of time on measures obnoxious to the majority.- (d) The Speaker's power as chairman of the Committee on Rules.- (1) Prevents clashing of committees.- (2) Enables measures to be considered in the order of their importance.- (3) Fixes responsibility for legislation...
...Committee of Award for 1898 consists of the following members: Professor H. T. Peck Columbia College (chairman); Professor Daniel G. Brinton, University of Pennsylvania; and W. J. McGee, Esq., Smithsonian Institution. Washington...
...political articles will be sure to attract attention, "The Emancipation of the Post-Office," by John R. Proctor, Chairman of the United States Civil Service Commission, and "Congress out of Date," the latter being an able statement of the evils due to the present system of convening Congress a year after its election...