1. How many representatives in Congress has your state? 2. Is there any evidence that your state is "gerrymandered"? 3. In what congressional district do you live? How many counties are there in the district? What is its population? How much does the population vary from the congressional ratio? Who is your representative? How many terms has he served? What is his party? By how large a majority was he elected? 4. Who is the senior senator from your state? The junior senator? How many terms has each served? To which of the three classes does each belong? 5. If the first congressional ratio of one member for 30,000 inhabitants were now in force, what would be the number of representatives in the house? Give arguments for and against the proposition that a house of 435 members is too large. 6. Is the present salary of members of Congress sufficiently large to attract the best men? Do you think the European custom of not paying salaries to members of Parliament a wise one? 7. Do you think members of Congress are morally entitled to "constructive" mileage, that is, for mileage not actually traveled, as where one session merges into another? 8. Members of the British Parliament are elected for a term of five years, those of the German Reichstag for five years, those of the French Chamber of Deputies for four years. In view of these rather long terms, do you think a two-year term for American representatives is too short? 9. Do you think the practice of members of Congress of distributing large quantities of garden seed among their constituents at public expense a wise or a vicious one? 10. Do you think public documents printed by authority of Congress should be distributed free of cost to all who desire them? 11. What is your opinion of the practice of members of Congress of printing in the Congressional Record long speeches never delivered in Congress? 12. Would the nomination of members of Congress by direct primary be a better method than nomination by convention? 13. What would be the advantage in requiring a newly elected Congress to assemble shortly after the election instead of about thirteen months thereafter, as is the present rule? 14. Ought the qualifications for voting for representatives in Congress to be determined by national authority instead of by the states? 15. Ought a representative to be required to be a resident of the district from which he is elected? 16. Do you think the states should be equally represented in the senate? CHAPTER XI ORGANIZATION AND PROCEDURE OF CONGRESS