Excerpt from 55th Congress, 1st Session: March 15-July 24, 1897; Index to the Subjects of the Documents and Reports, and to the Committees, Senators, and Representatives Presenting Them, With Tables of the Same in Numerical Order Cockrell, francis M. - Continued. Fletcher, Charles, relief of. S. 394 Giddings, Napoleon B., relief of. S 226 Havens, Ezra S., relief of. S. 231 Larkin, Patrick, to remove charge of desertion. S. 475 mcdaniel, Orin R relief of. S. 809 Missouri Military Acedem relief of supt. S. 232 Neet, John S., jr., relief 0 S. 229 Orr, George A., relief of. S. 227 Port Hudson, medals for storming part S. 1557 Vivisection, memorial of American M ical Association same, memorial of Medical Society of D 0 same, memorial of scientific societies Cohen, Jacob I., admr., relief of. S. 2339 Collisions of vessels, inland rules to prevent. 4 pts same, consideration. H. R 43 same, to adopt. S. 1886 Colman, Anna M widow, may prosecute claim. S. 253 Colman, Charles D. Widow of, may prosecute claim. S. 253 Colorado, memorial of General Assembly of, relative to Geolog ical Survey Columbian Exposition, report on Govt. Exhibit submitted Commerce, etc., monthly summary, J uly-dec. 1897. Pts. 1 - 6 same, J an.-j une 1898. Pts. 7-12 see also Reciprocity. Commerce Committee. Astoria, Oreg., quarantine station at. S. 966. Collisions of vessels, inland rules to prevent. S. 1886 Cumberland Sound, appropriation for dredfiing. S. J. R. 57 Loring, B. W to commission as captain, . C. S. S. 1337 New Haven, Conn., aids to navigation in harbor. S. 674 Norwalk, Conn., aids to navigation in harbor. S. 673 Revenue Cutter Service, to promote eficiency. S. 620 Sailing vessels, larger, to subject to inspection, etc. S. 622 St. Louis River, bridge, to amend act. S. 956. Same. H. 16 amdt Selover, Howard, etc., relief of heirs. S. 665 Sharpshooter, barkentine, American register for. S. 1788 Tonnage tax, to repeal reciprocal abolition of, etc S. 621 Vessels, fees for certificates of title. S. 946 Water hyacinth, to investigate obstruction by. S 390 Commercial arrangements with foreign countries Commercial Mutual Insurance Company, relief of. S. 436 Compressed air, transmission of mail by, appropriation for Conanicut Island, report of examination for channel Congress, reports to be made to Congressional Directory, 2 editions. 2 pts Congressional documents, index, 55th Congress, lst session Congressional Library, see Library of Congress. Consolidated index, 55th Congress, lst session Consular Reports, index to v 42-54, nos. 152 - 203 6 pts., pt. 6 printing of v. 54, nos. 200-203, May - Aug. 1897, and sup. 6 pts., pts. 1 - 5 v. 55, nos. 204 - 207, Sept - Dec. 1897 and sup. 5 pts Consuls, for payment of certain Continental Fire Insurance Co. And others, relief of. S. 436 Contingent Expenses of Senate, Committee to Audit and Con trol, see Senate, Committee to Audit, etc. Conway, Henry B., to increase pension. S. 126 Cook, Alice V. To pension. S. 76 Corgan, John N to increase pension. S. 730 Cotton, Sarah E to pension. S. 1837 Coulson, Mary A admrx., relief of. S. 1945 Coulson, Sewell, relief of admrx. S. 1945 Court of Claims, findings, see names of claimants. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Until 1913 and passage of the Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, US senators were elected by state legislatures, not directly by the people. Progressive Era reformers urged this revision in answer to the corruption of state "machines" under the dominance of party bosses. They also believed that direct elections would make the Senate more responsive to popular concerns regarding the concentrations of business, capital, and labor that in the industrial era gave rise to a growing sense of individual voicelessness. Popular control over the higher affairs of government was thought to be possible, since the spread of information and communications technology was seen as rendering indirect representation through state legislators unnecessary. However sincerely such reasons were advanced, C. H. Hoebeke contends, none of them accorded with the original intent of the Constitution's framers.The driving force behind the Seventeenth Amendment was the furtherance of democracy?exactly what the founders were trying to prevent in placing the Senate out of direct popular reach. Democracy was not synonymous with liberty as it is today, but simply meant the absolute rule of the majority. In full reaction to the egalitarian theories of the Enlightenment, and to the excesses of popular government under the Articles of Confederation, the Constitution's framers sought a "mixed" Constitution, an ancient ideal under which democracy was only one element in a balanced republic. Accordingly, only the House of Representatives answered immediately to the people. But as Hoebeke demonstrates, the states never resisted egalitarian encroachments, and had settled for popular expedients when electing both presidents and senators long before the formal cry for amendment. The Progressives' charge that a corrupt and unresponsive Senate could never be reformed until placed directly in the hands of the people was refuted by the amendment itself. As required by the Constitutio