Word: congress
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...members of the present Congress three are graduates of Yale and two of Harvard...
...rules of the Fifty First Congress proved an efficient remedy for these evils - (a) They save valuable time. - (b) They make possible the transaction of public business in order of its importance. - (c) They solve the quorum question constitutionally: "A Democratic Leader" in N. Am. Rev., vol. 151, p. 237. - (d) They protect adequately both majority and minority. - (e) They do not confer on the speaker dangerous power. - (b) They are supported by precedent and common sense: T. B. Reed in N. Amer. Rev., March, May, and August, 1890. Joseph Chamberlain in Nineteenth Cent...
Best general references: Congressional Record, vol. X, part 1; vol. XXI, appendix, pp. 22-25; House Journal, Fifty First Congress, 1st Session; Copy of the rules, (pamphlet); North American Review, vol. 150; Nation, Feb. 6, 13, and 20, 1890; Public Opinion, VIII; Feb. 8, 1890; Story's Commentaries, II, 299; Lalor's Cyclopaedia, IV, 88; Bryce's American Commonwealth, I, 129-132; Smith's Const'l Manual...
...ruling on "filibustering" is dangerous, one-sided and liable to be carried to extremes; - (a) Congress likely to pass too much rather than too little legislation; - (b) A minority by filibustering attracts public attention; - (c) It prevents members from introducing an amendment which might pass if put to a vote; - (d) Liable to extremity because the pronouncing upon the character of a motion left to the discretion of an opponent...
...rules place the control of the House almost exclusively in the hands of one man; McMillin in Cong. Record, vol. 2, App. p. 25; - (a) They injure Congress as a deliberative body; - (b) They enable the speaker to declare bill passed when the rolls show the contrary; Nation, Feb. 13, p. 124; - (c) They make it possible to "railroad" bills through Congress...