Word: power
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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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...
...These excessive powers lead to misgovernment.- (a) Bargaining.- (1) Between members and candidates for speaker.- (2) Between Speaker and members wishing to offer resolutions: Nation. XXVI. 226.- (b) Excite contested elections which delay legislative business (exs. 1839, 1849, 1855, 1859, etc.).- (1) When parties are evenly divided none will give up such an all-powerful position.- (c) Corrupt use of power by Speaker to further corporate interests: Cong. Rec. 44 Cong. 1 Sess. 3606.- (d) Minority summarily overridden: 19th Cent. XXVIII...
...committee shall report to the president of Columbia College not later than May 1st of the year designated for the award. If special topics of investigation shall have been recommended and no work upon these topics shall appear worthy of a prize, the committee shall have power to confer the prizes upon the authors of the most meritorious works falling within the provisions above laid down in Paragraph III, and published within the preceding ten years. If but a single work upon a suggested topic shall appear worthy of a prize, the committee shall have power to award the second...
...manifested in our treatment of foreign affairs seems to us a menace to the welfare of our country and to her high stand among the civilized nations. We assert that it is a duty entailed on us as citizens of the United States to do every thing in our power to oppose the war-spirit so rampant now. We therefore suggest that every member of the University, whether student or professor, write a personal letter to the senators of his state and the representative of his district, deprecating the warlike policy indicated in the President's Message...
...legal-tender bills).- (c) The Republicans passed an act almost unanimously to retire greenbacks, Dec. 18, 1865: Nation, LXI, 380.- (d) March 18, 1869. Congress passed an act solemnly pledging itself to make early provision for redemption of the United States notes in coin: E. C. Mason's Veto Power, S 61.- (e) President Grant urged Congress to retire the legaltender notes: McPherson, Handbook, 1874.- (f) President Hayes...