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Your petitioners having learned that a bill to place the United States naval observatory under civilian control, and to appoint an astronomer its chief director, has been brought to the attention of Congress, earnestly request that this measure shall receive your friendly consideration...
...demand; Morrill, 424.- (3) They would not be listened to when advocating measures repugnant to Congress - (4) Written reports furnish better basis for sound legislation, because poor speakers would fail to give clear expositions, while good speakers could mislead; Morrill, 422. - (5) The committee system would continue to control legislation: Hart, Atlantic, LVII. 380; Hoar, North Amer. Review, CXXVIII, 121-2; Nation, XVI, 235. - (c) Responsibility would not be centralized, for unless cabinet directed all legislation - (1) Private members would introduce conflicting bills. - (2) Cabinet would advance privately any measures known to be unpopular. - (3) Responsibility would not be felt...
...executive, with cabinet, was not intended to be allied to Congress, but to be a a check or balance; Thayer, 446; Hare, I, 180. - (c) It is fundamental in a democracy that the people should move the government, not that any body of men should control legislation; Snow...
...chairman of the State Republican Committee in 1883, and a representative to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses. He was one of the leaders of the majority in the last House where he came into prominence as the chief promoter of a bill to provide for federal control of federal elections. He is an enthusiastic supporter of Hon. Theodore Roosevelt in his Civil Service Reforms and also strongly favors the restriction of undesirable immigration to our shores. In a literary way, Mr. Lodge is well known as the author of "A Short History of the English Colonies...
...open to cheap and pauper labor. These foreigners do not understand our ways of government. They cannot distinguish between unrestricted freedom and liberty, thus anarchism and the numerous cliques and secret societies, with all their evils, arise. Law is the expression of public sentiment and if we put the control of elections into the hands of the immigrant our law will not represent the sentiment of the more educated classes and from this untold harm may result...