Adams, John Quincy, 69.
Aldrich, Senator, 3, 105.
Ames, Fisher, 69.
Appropriation Committees, 15, 129.
Appropriations, classification of, 19;
framed by eight committees, 19;
rules governing consideration, 20;
Senate increase, 21; manipulated
in aid of patronage, 100; Presi-
dent's relations to, 54, 109, 119.
Australia, 61.
Bacon, Senator, 6.
Bagehot, Walter, 37.
Bailey, Senator, 71.
Bartholdt, Representative, 43.
Bennet, Representative, 95.
Benton, Senator, 68.
Blackmail, legislative, 27, 117.
Breckenridge, Vice-President, 68, 76.
British Estimates, 11, 95.
Bryce, James, 9.
Budget, process of making, 11, 127;
lack of control, 15; constitutional
agencies of control, 22; English
system of control, 54, 103; U. S.
constitutional provision, 103; in
Confederate constitution, 104;
control impossible under present
conditions, 108; responsibility laid
on President, 109; significance
of that action, 115; requires ex-
ercise of veto power, 117; in-
volves whole organization of public
authority, 120; compared with
English system, 142.
Burgh, James, 36.
Burke, Edmund, 35, 39, 87, 107.
Burton, Theodore E., 31, 32, 42, 104,
108.
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Cannon, Speaker, 4, 26, 27, 34.
Carter, Senator, 97.
Census Bureau, 8, 121.
Charleston Navy Yard, 48.
China, 957.
Committee of Conference, senatorial
use of, 29, 44.
Commons, House of, kicked out
money bill of Lords, 22; legisla-
tive proposals, 39; rules of order,
54, 93; seat of government, 66;
payment of members proposed, 91.
Concurrent Resolutions, 17, 117.
Congress, of United States, action on
estimates, 14, 46; numerous com-
mittees of, 72, 105; feeble begin-
nings of, 76; pay and perquisites
of, 91; office buildings of, 93;
cost of franking privilege, 92;
expense of, compared with Parlia-
ment, 95; resists economy, 98;
futile commissions, 99; encroach-
ments on Executive, 99, 101, 105;
reforms instituted by, 104; ser-
vant of particular interests, 107;
need of reform, 115; see Senate
and Representatives.
Constitution, U.S., 17, 66, 118.
Convention system, 70.
Cortelyou, George B., 1.
Court of Claims, 16.
Courts assuming legislative functions,
79.
Cost of government, see National
Expenditure.
Darwinism, 110.
Dawes, Representative, 104.
Denmark, 5.
Direct primary system, 85.
Dolliver, Senator, 99.
English constitution, 66.
Estimates, British, 11, 142.
Milton, John, 5.
Money, Senator, 106.
Montesquieu, 62.
Estimates, U.S., 11, 17, 115, 127, 136. | Meyer, Postmaster-General, 50, 134.
Executive communications, 14.
Executive Department, see Presi-
dent of the United States.
Expenditure, see National Expendi-
ture.
1, 2, 3, 7; compared with other
countries, 57; increase of pay roll,
82; conditions promoting extrav-
agance, 84, 87, 97; analysis of,
121; tabular statements, 136.
Navy yards, 52.
Newark Evening News, 113.
Newlands, Senator, 106.
New Zealand, 58.
Norway, 5, 63.
Office-holders, their number, 82.
Olmsted, Representative, 40.
Panama Canal, 5.
Parcels Post, 51.
Pension agencies, 25, 107.
Philipp, E. L., treatise of, 89.
Platforms, party repudiated, 70.
Polk, President, 111.
Portugal, 56.
Post-Office Department, 50.
President of the United States, ex-
cluded from budget-making, 53;
separated from Congress,
represents the people, 72, 111;
congressional jealousy of, 106;
his duty to coördinate income and
expenditure, 109; difficulties of his
office, 112; should exercise powers
of Committee of Rules, 114; his
budget responsibility, 117; his
veto power, 118; discretionary
authority over appropriations, 119.
Prussia, 90.
Public Buildings bill, 43, 51.
Public printing, cost of, 97.
Reed, Speaker, 72.
Representative institutions, debility
of, in America, 30; breakdown in
the United States, 73; salvation
of, 109; conditions of efficiency,
115.
Representatives, House of, 7, 11, 14,
15; constitutional powers of, 23;
rules of, 40; decline of, 34, 45, 61, | State, the American, decay of, 75,
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