Footnote 172: For full description, with illustrations, see Wright and Smith, Parliament, Past and Present, Chap. 18.[(Back)]
Footnote 173: Redlich, Procedure of the House of Commons, II., 68-77.[(Back)]
Footnote 174: In point of fact, the Chairman and Deputy Chairman retire when the ministry by which they have been nominated goes out of office.[(Back)]
Footnote 175: On this account he is referred to ordinarily as the Chairman of Committees.[(Back)]
Footnote 176: American Commonwealth, I., 135.[(Back)]
Footnote 177: Parliament, 140-141.[(Back)]
Footnote 178: See p. [112].[(Back)]
Footnote 179: On the officers of the House of Commons see Lowell, Government of England, I., Chap. 12; on the speakership, Redlich, Procedure of the House of Commons, II., 131-171; Graham, The Mother of Parliaments, 119-134; MacDonaugh, The Book of Parliament, 115-132; Porritt, Unreformed House of Commons, I., Chaps. 21-22; A. I. Dasent, The Speakers of the House of Commons from the Earliest Times to the Present Day (New York, 1911); and G. Mer, Les speakers: étude de la fonction présidentielle en Angleterre et aux États-Unis (Paris, 1910).[(Back)]
Footnote 180: On committees on private bills see p. [137]. The committees of the House of Commons are described in Lowell, Government of England, I., Chap. 13; Marriott, English Political Institutions, Chap. 11; Ilbert, Parliament, Chap. 6; Redlich, Procedure of the House of Commons, II., 180-214; and May, Treatise on the Law, Privileges, Proceedings, and Usage of Parliament, Chaps. 13-14.[(Back)]