Departments, heads of should have seats in Congress, 226- 232.
Depositories, national, 475-476. Des Moines Plan of Government, 356.
De Tocqueville, Alexis, 111. Dewey, D. R., 448.
Direct legislation, value of, 303- 305, 309.
Dodd, W. F., 265, 295. Dougherty, J. H., 184. Durand, E. D., 349.
Election of judges, 312-314. Election of senators, attempts to change, 156-160; advantages of popular, 160-162. Elections, multiplicity of, 273- 275; primary, 378-384; reform of 507-512; regulation of_in Connecticut, 513-517; in Los Angeles, 526; in Oregon, 118-
Elective officers, reduction of, 386– 391, 507-509; recall system for, 526.
Electoral system, defects in, 184-
Electors, presidential, district sys-
tem of choosing, 188; evils of the general ticket system of choosing, 189-191.
Executive supremacy, federal, causes of, 196-200; significance of, 200-202. Extradition, 92–94.
Fairlie, J. A., 202, 211, 232, 452. Federalism, present day, 77, 80. Federalist, The, 171, 243. Federalists, urge the adoption of the Constitution, 46-50. Filibuster, 137, 167.
Finance, defects in congressional, 435-440; municipal, 452-455. Folk, J. W., 126.
Forest service, 407-408.
Fourteenth Amendment, 95, 96, 101, 113, 116.
Gage, L., 464.
Garner, J. W., 303, 328. Gerry, E., 222.
Gibbon vs. Ogden, 483. Government, distinguished from state, 7; special training re- quired for, 305, 310; by igno- rant, danger of, 310; proper sphere of, 396-397; essential and non-essential functions of, 397-402.
Government ownership, 409-410. Governors, State, extension of powers of, 263; administrative powers of, 266; legislative powers of, 266-268, 274; com- pared to the President, 271- 272; general powers of, 273.
Habeas Corpus, writ of, origin,
105-109; Act of 1679, 109-110. Hamilton, A., 39, 41, 44, 46, 243. Harlan, J. M., 68. Hart, M. K., 27.
Haynes, G. H., 118, 156. Heads of Departments, federal, president's control over, 207- 210; powers of, 215-218; ad- mission to congress proposed in Washington's administration,
219-222; admission to Congress advocated, 226–231.
Hepburn Act, 486. Herbert, H. A., 149. Hinds, A. C., 129. Hinsdale, M. L., 218. Home Rule, municipal, develop- ment of, 336-342; vs. State control, 343; constitutional provision for, in California, 339,
in Missouri, 339, in New York, 342; advantages of, 344-349; law providing for in Iowa, 356. House of Commons, 149. House of Representatives, debate in, 129-131, 144; rules of, 136- 144; committe s of, 145-148; compared to House of Commons, 149-154.
Hughes, C. E., 26, 30.
Implied powers, doctrine of, 55. Income tax, 433.
Income tax amendment, 434. Incorporation, federal act for op- posed, 78, 79; federal, recom- mended, 500-501.
Independent Treasury, evils of, 465, 466-469, 475. Initiative and Referendum, de- velopment of, 295-296; in Ore- gon, 120-123, 296-298; results of in Oregon, 298-303; failure of, 305-308; limitations of, 309. Interstate commerce, limited view
of, 77-81, 89-91; broad view of, 82-88; power to regulate, 483- 485, 492-497, 499.
Interstate Commerce Act of 1906, 486.
Interstate Commerce Commission, enlarged, 490; appeals from, 497-498.
Immunity laws, 519.
Jefferson, T., 232.
Judges, federal, term of, 243; du- ties of, 245-246; character of, 247-250.
Judges, State, appointment of, 311; evils of election of, 312- 314; term of, 315-316; power of in criminal trials, 332. Judiciary, power of to interpret the Constitution, in the United States, 62; on the Continent, 63; character of, 243, 244. Jurors, selection of, 316, 317; in- struction of, 318.
Jury duty, desertion of, 321-323.
McClain, E., 255, 316. McConachie, L. G., 145, 223. McCulloh vs. Maryland, 55, 72. McGovern, F. E., 518. Madison, James, 39, 219, 221. Magna Charta, 10. Maine, Henry, 112. Maltbie, M. R., 344. Marbury vs. Madison, 250. Marshall, J., 55, 72, 250, 483. Martin, J., 402.
Mayor government, development of, 349; limitations of, 352-353; failure of, in New York, 354, in
Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act, 441. Pendleton Report, 226, 230. Platform, party, 119, 381-383. Political corruption, repression of,
Politician, the, methods of, 376, 386-388, 504.
President, may sit in Senate, 177; recent growth in power of, 196- 202; power of removal of, 203- 207; power of direction of, 207- 210. Presidential government, 193, 196. Primary elections, in Oregon, 118;
legislation on, 378-384; limita- tions of, 507, 512; cost of, 511. Public Service Commissions, 275, 278, 280.
Public Service corporations, mo- nopolistic character of, 276-280. Public utilities, ownership of, 409-410, 459-462; corruption in, 504, 505.
Scruggs, W. L., 95, 113.
Secretary of the Treasury, reports to Congress, 219, 220; presence in Congress opposed by Madison, 221; favored by Gerry, 222. Self-government, meaning of, 17- 19; how acquired, 19-21. Seligman, E. R., 411, 428. Senate, committees of, 162-166; freedom of, debate in, 167-169; power of over money bills, 172, 173, 181; control of appoint- ments, 173-175, 178-180; treaty- making power of, 175-177, 180- 181; growth of power of, 182- 183.
Senators, federal, legislative elec- tion of opposed, 156-160; vantages of popular election of, 160-162; election of in Oregon, 299, 302.
Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 490, 494. Slaughter House Case, 98, 102. Socialism, tendency toward, 399, 401; growth of in the United States, 402-410.
Society, distinguished from the state, 7.
Sovereignty, definition of, 6-7. Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives, control of debate by, 129-130; character of, 131; ap- pointment of committees by, 132, 133; and the committee on rules, 133, 143; powers of legiti- mate, 134-136, 142. State constitutions, history of, 261-265; recent, 265–270. State, definition of, 3-5; sphere of action of, 397-398.
State regulation of public utili-
ties, 276-280; of industry, 398- 401.
States Rights, 77; danger of pres- ent, 84-86.
State sovereignty, 89. Strict construction, 65. Suffrage, danger of extension of, 111-113; under the 14th and 15th amendments, 113-115, 116– 118; in the Southern States, 115-116; the Supreme Court on, 116-118.
Supreme Court, attitude of, to- ward the Constitution, 67-68; toward the rights of citizenship, 100-104; toward the suffrage, 116-118; toward trusts, 493, 496.
Taft, W. H., 497.
Taney, R. B., 69, 104.
Tariff Act of 1909, 441-448. Tariff, maximum and minimum, 446, 447; Philippine, 447. Taussig, F. W., 419.
Taxation of corporations, 426; ad- vantages of, 427; methods of as- sessing, 428-433.
Taxation of franchises, 456–459. Taxation of incomes, 433-434. Taxation of property, lack of uni- formity in, 411; evasion of, 413; dishonesty in, 415; regressive forms of, 416; double, 417. Taxation of securities, methods of, 419-420; exemption from, 421, 426-427; evasion of, 420; rates of excessive, 423-426. Taxes, basis of, 421-422. Tenure of Office Act, 204, 205. Treasury Department, organiza- tion of, 207, 219.
Treasury, United States, policy of, 464-466.
Treaties, 175-177, 180, 181. Trusts, prohibition of, 490–492; Chicago conference on, 492, 493.
Verdict of jury, can be set aside,
319; character of, 323-324; evils of unanimous, in civil trials, 325-328.
Veto, governor's power of, 267- 268; under the initiative and referendum, 297.
Vote, the intelligent, 126; the blind, 384-388; the independent,
Voters, education of, 118-126.
Ways and Means, committee of, 223, 435.
Wilcox, D. F., 361, 456. Williams, T., 492.
Willoughby, W. W., 111, 397. Wilson, W., 9, 19, 89, 369. Wise, J. S., 92, 97, 116, 483. Woodburn, J. A., 192.
Young, J. T., 196.
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