Cobden, Richard, [198].
Coinage Act of 1873, [185].
Commerce, federal power over, [30], [31]; former control of appropriations for internal improvements by Committee on, [167].
Commission, legislative, proposed by J. S. Mill, [115], [129], [192]; the most effective legislative, [192].
Committee, "Executive," proposed for House of Representatives, [114].
Committees, select, [67].
Committees, Standing, government by, [56]; chairmen of, leaders of House, [60]; chairmen of, do not consult or coöperate, [61]; for every topic of legislation, [61]; served by rules of House, [66], [71]; number and uses of, [67], [68]; consider all bills, [67]; overlapping jurisdiction of, [68]; cannot reject bills, [69]; neglect of, to report, [69], [70]; entire direction of legislation by, [70], [78]; hasty consideration of reports of, by House, [71]; four specially licensed, [71], [72]; average time given to each of the, to report, [72]; call of, for reports, [72], [73]; hastening of business by the, [74] et seq.; control of debate by, [75] et seq.; arguments before the, [81-85]; division of power amongst the, [92]; both parties represented on, [99]; appointed in House by Speaker, [103]; history of rules of appointment of, [104]; aided by Speaker, [108]; Roman magistrates and the, [109]; "little legislatures" made up of all sorts of men, [113]; contrasted with single Standing Committee of Parliament, [116], [117]; of House of Commons, [122]; which control national income, [136]; which create demands upon the Treasury, [167], [168]; on expenditures, [175-177]; multiplication of, by Congress, [176], n.; approachability of the, by lobbyists, [189], [190]; choice of, in the Senate, [212], n.; supervision of the departments by the, [231], [262], [271], [272]; may command, but cannot superintend, [271]; part of the mechanism of Congress, [281]; offset by legislative caucus, [326].
Commons, House of, represented by Ministers of Crown, [59], [244]; character of debate in the, [94], [95]; Cabinet's place and functions in the, 117 et seq.; private members' bills in the, [120], [121]; committees of, [122]; functions and character of Speaker of, [122]; the, in session, [123]; compared with French Chamber, [123], [128], [129]; controls, does not originate, financial measures, [137]; opposition of, to civil service reform, [285], [289]; cross-examination of Ministers in, [300].
Conference Committees on appropriation bills, [157], [158], [280].
Congress, the centre and source of power, [11]; early awkwardness of, [21], [44]; made dominant and irresistible by doctrine of "implied powers," [23]; check upon, by Judiciary, [35], [36]; power of, over federal courts, [38]; check upon, by President, [41]; quick assumption of control by, [44], [45]; enlarged powers of, created by efficiency of organization, [47]; prominence of Senate in contests with executive, [47] et seq.; proper central object of constitutional study, [57]; complex organization of, [58]; without authoritative leaders, [59], [92], [205], [212], [315]; embarrassments of new member in, [61] et seq.; work of, parceled out to Committees, [67]; delays of each new, in getting to work, [72], [73]; uninteresting character of debate in, [95], [96]; means of financial control by, [147]; supervision of expenditures by, [175], [179]; difficulties of constituencies in controlling, [186-189]; cause for distrust of, 186 et seq.; lobbying in, [189], [190]; failure of presidential nominating caucus of, [247]; does not breed administrators, [251], [252]; and the Executive, party diversity between, [267]; defective means of, for controlling executive action, 270 et seq., [302]; and the Executive, absence of confidential coöperation between, [278]; exactions of, upon the departments, [278], [279]; diligence of, in legislation, [294], [297]; necessity for discussion of administration by, [301] et seq.; informing function of, to be magnified, [303]; grasps after new subjects of legislation, [304]; freedom of action possible to, [304], [305]; inferior to the Press as a critical authority, [306], [319]; embarrassments of, in making its authority open and respectable, 312 et seq.; and Parliament succeeding Revolution settlement in Eng., [315]; without adequate information, [315]; tendency towards concentration of federal powers in hands of, [315], [316]; irresponsibility of, [318]; agreement and stability of majorities in, [324] et seq.; parties in, disciplined by caucus, [326], [327].