Previous Question, 75, 90; in the Senate, 211, n., 218. Prime Minister, method of selecting a, in England and France, 248; and President, contrast between, 249; questions asked the, in House of Commons, 300. Printing, prerogatives of Committee on, 71, 72; of unspoken speeches, 91. "Private bill day," 73. Protective policy of Committee of Ways and Means, 172-174. Public life, conditions of, in U. S., 195 _et seq_.; in England, 214; attractiveness of leadership in, 214. Public opinion, not instructed by congressional debate, 101; difficulties of, in understanding and controlling Congress, 186-189; not led in U. S., 187; distrust of Congress by, 188; confusion of, with regard to congressional policy, 280; instruction of, important duty of representative assembly, 297 _et seq_.; information of, by inquisitive public body, 300, 301; leaders of English, 322; paralysis of, in U. S., 331. Pulteney, 286, 287. Randolph, John, 89; interview of, with Treasury officials, 162, 163. "Reconstruction," reflected altered condition of balance between state and federal govts., 32, 33. "Record," Congressional, unspoken speeches in, 91; little read, 94. Reform Bill of 1832 in England, 220. Reichstag, consent of, necessary to policy in Germany, 59. 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_.