[20] No Committee is entitled, when called, to occupy more than the morning hours of two successive days with the measures which it has prepared; though if its second morning hour expire while the House is actually considering one of its bills, that single measure may hold over from morning hour to morning hour until it is disposed of.
[21] Quoted from an exceedingly life-like and picturesque description of the House which appeared in the New York Nation for April 4, 1878.
[22] No. Am. Rev., vol. xxvi., p. 162.
[23] Id., the same article.
[24] "Glances at Congress," Dem. Rev., March, 1839.
[25] Autobiography, pp. 264, 265.
[26] The National Budget, etc. (English Citizen Series), p. 146. In what I have to say of the English system, I follow this volume, pp. 146-149, and another volume of the same admirable series, entitled Central Government, pp. 36-47, most of my quotations being from the latter.
[27] See an article entitled "National Appropriations and Misappropriations," by the late President Garfield, North American Review, vol cxxviii. pp 578 et seq.
[28] Senator Hoar's article, already several times quoted.
[29] Adams's John Randolph. American Statesman Series, pp. 210, 211.