Reports, of Standing Committees, time given to, [72]; backed by neither party, [96]; thoroughly considered in early Congresses, [106]; of Committee on Appropriations, privileges of, [153], [154]; of Conference Committees, extraordinary privilege of, [158]; annual, of Treasury, referred to Committee of Ways and Means, [170], [171]; of Committee on Appropriations preferred to reports of Committee of Ways and Means, [174].
Representative assemblies, duties and means of, in instructing public opinion, [298] et seq.; supremacy of, in every system of self-government, [311].
Representative government, government by advocacy, [208].
Representatives, House of, [58-192]; position of Speaker in, [59], [103-108]; led by chairmen of Standing Committees, [60]; multiplicity of leaders in, [61]; rules of, restrain individual activity, [63]; introduction of bills in, [64]; bills in, introduced on Mondays, [66]; early course of bills in, [67], [68]; daily course of business in, [73]; press of time in business of, [74], [90]; conditions of debate in, [75] et seq.; absence of instinct of debate in, [79]; best discussion impossible in, [86]; hall of, [86], [87]; debate in, in former times, [89]; compared with Roman assembly, [109]; concentration of federal power in, [110]; suspension of rules of, to pass bills, [111], [112]; compared with British Commons, [116] et seq.; with English and French chambers, [129]; disintegrate character of, [210]; "latent unity" of, with Senate, [224].
Responsibility, of administrators, to representative chamber for inefficiency, [274], [276], [277]; of ministers Machiavelli on, [275]; scattering of, by federal constitutional system, [281]; with power, [283], [284]; of Executive, and civil service reform, [285] et seq.; history of ministerial, in England, [286] et seq.
Resumption Act of 1875, [185].
Revenue, controlled by House Committee of Ways and Means and Senate Committee on Finance, [169]; policy of Committee of Ways and Means and of English Chancellor of Exchequer, [171-175]; subordinate to Supply in Congress, [174], [175].
Revolution, English, of 1688, character of Parliament succeeding the, [313].
Revolution, French, [20], [43].
Rivers and Harbors, Committee on, [165]; prerogatives of Committee on, [167]; Committee on, and "log-rolling," [168].