Word: congress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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DEBATE OF MAY 8, 1889.Question: Resolved, that a closer harmony between the national legislative and executive departments is essential, and can be obtained by giving cabinet ministers seats and voices in congress...
...present system of transacting business in congress is unsatisfactory and would be greatly improved by the proposed exchnage:- Senator Hoar in North American Review, Feb. 1879, Gamaliel Bradford, The Practical Working of our Government, pp. 4-8; Nation...
Best general references: Atlantic Monthly, vol. 57, p. 180; Morrill's Speech, forty-sixth congress, first session...
...ever since the question of adopting a constitution came up. Should indepondence in politics be carried to its full extent, the whole country would be split up into small parties. Mr. Friend cited examples to show the danger of voting against one's party. It is the complaint of Congress today that not enough attention is paid to party...
...corporations finally forced first the state and then the national government to consider the matter. The interstate commerce act is entitled an act to regulate commerce but it does not touch some forms, and this greatly complicates the difficulties which attend the enforcement of the act. But if congress were disposed to regulate all transportation, decided obstacles would be encountered. In the first place railroads are in private, and for the most part separate ownership. A uniform mileage rate would, therefore, not be just; but property rights must be protected. A second obstacle is found in the principals which govern...