[16] For an incisive account of the whole affair, see an article Entitled "The Session," _No. Am. Review_, vol. cxi., pp. 48, 49. [17] 7 Wall. 506. [18] For a brilliant account of the senatorial history of these two treaties, see the article entitled "The Session," _No. Am. Rev._, vol. cviii. (1869), p. 626 _et seq._ [19] In an article entitled "The Conduct of Business in Congress" (_North American Review_, vol. cxxviii. p. 113), to which I am indebted for many details of the sketch in the text. [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. [30] On one occasion "the House passed thirty-seven pension bills at one sitting. The Senate, on its part, by unanimous consent, took up and passed in about ten minutes seven bills providing for public buildings in different States, appropriating an aggregate of $1,200,000 in this short time. A recent House feat was one in which a bill, allowing 1,300 war claims in a lump, was passed. It contained one hundred and nineteen pages full of little claims, amounting in all to $291,000; and a member, in deprecating criticism on this disposition of them, said that the Committee had received ten huge bags full of such claims, which had been adjudicated by the Treasury officials, and it was a physical impossibility to examine them."--N. Y. _Sun_, 1881.