Word: congress
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...McCall began by saying that the representative is the only officer of the United States government that is voted for directly by the people. It is for this reason that the House of Representatives has come to be called the popular branch of Congress. The House has almost the same duties as the Senate; indeed, in their legislative capacities they are almost identical. One difference is that the House must originate all bills for raising revenue. This was supposed, at the time of the framing of the Constitution, to be a very great power, and that the power...
...large part of the time of the House is taken up with appropriation bills. The session of Congress which has just closed was of ten weeks' duration and during that time, one thousand million dollars was appropriated, or ten millions a week. We are now passing through a veritable orgy of Extravagance. With an enormous debt, and a large annual defleit, the Ways and Means Committee is now considering the revision of the tariff, and on next Tuesday will present a bill to Congress which, it is hoped, will increase the annual revenue by one hundred millions of dollars...
...GEOLOGICAL CONFERENCE. "Giaciation in the Catskill Mountains." Mr. H. E. Merwin. "The Fourth Scientific Congress (First Pan-American) in Santiago, Chili." Professor Woodworth. Mineralogical Lecture Room...
...Herbert Putnam '83, at present librarian of Congress, has been both a lawyer and a librarian. After graduating from Harvard in 1883 he engaged in library work at Minneapolis. In the meanwhile he studied law and began to practice in Boston in 1891. In 1895 he returned to library work, becoming librarian of the Boston Public Library. From this position he was called in 1899 to become Librarian of Congress. Mr. Putnam has received the degree of Litt.D. from Bowdoin in 1898, from Yale in 1907, and from several other colleges. He was born in New York City, September...
...known by the general public. The policeman, when arresting a criminal is really a judge of the first instance, who must quickly decide what constitutes a crime. He is also the only authority in the land in the eyes of the new immigrant, who knows nothing of Constitution or Congress. If he forces some poor push-cart man to give him a bribe, the immigrant forms his ideas of American justice from that action. These two phases greatly increase the need of an honest police force...