[390:3] Rep. of Com. on Priv. Business, 1902, VII., 321, Q. 248.
[390:4] Rep. on Municipal Trading, 1900, VII., 183, Q. 3915.
[390:5] Ibid., Qs. 290-91 and 3923-24.
[390:6] Ibid., Qs. 284-85, 390, 3912, 3920, 3922; Rep. of Com. on Priv. Business, 1902, VII., 321, Qs. 77-80, 214-15.
[390:7] Rep. on Municipal Trading, 1900, VII., 183, Qs. 454-55 and 3917-18.
[391:1] Cf. Rep. on Municipal Trading, 1900, VII., 183, Qs. 298, 341-44, 347, 3939-41.
[391:2] For a careful study from this point of view of a fairly good legislative body, by one of its members well fitted to observe, see an article by Francis C. Lowell, in the Atlantic Monthly, LXXIX., 366-77, March, 1897.
[392:1] In the five years 1891-95 the number of bills opposed on second reading averaged 17-3/5, while from 1897-1901 they averaged 32. Rep. of Com. on Priv. Business, 1902, VII., 321, Q. 218.
[392:2] Rep. of Com. on Priv. Business, 1902, VII., 321, App. 2. But these periods are too short to warrant any accurate conclusion. In not more than eight or nine per cent. of the cases does the opposition seem to have succeeded. Ibid., Q. 219-20.
[393:1] Cf. Rep. of Com. on Priv. Bill Leg., Com. Papers, 1888, XVI., 1, Qs. 346-47, 487-88, 553, 1244. Rep. of Com. on Municipal Trading, 1900, VII., 183, Qs. 519, 523-26, 529. Com. on Priv. Business, 1902, VII., 321, Qs. 42-43. In conversation the writer found the opinion that the habit was increasing substantially universal.