on Rules of Senate and House were directed each to appoint "a skilled person to act as counsel" to the Senate and House respectively, among whose duties should be that of consolidating and incorporating from time to time in the General Laws all new general statutes. Also they are to submit to the General Court such proposed changes and corrections in the General Statutes as they deem necessary or advisable.
Wisconsin in 1909 had sought to solve the problem in somewhat the same way by creating the office of Revisor (Laws 1909, c. 546), whose duties should be: (1) to maintain a loose-leaf system of the statutes, separating those statutes in force from those repealed or superseded; (2) to maintain a loose-leaf ledger of court decisions referring to statutes; (3) to present to the Committee on Revision of each House of the Legislature, at the beginning of each session, bills providing for such consolidation and revision as might be completed from time to time; (4) to keep an alphabetical, subject card-index to the statutes; (5) to formulate and prepare a definite plan for the order, classification, arrangement, and printing of the statutes and session laws; and (6) to supervise and attend to the preparation, printing, and binding of such compilations of particular portions of the statutes as might be ordered by the head of any department of the State. Apparently the detail of the program proved unsatisfactory, for by the time the 1917 revision of the laws appeared, there remained, if its index may be trusted, only directions to present to the Judiciary Committee at the beginning of each session plans and bills, with general authority to prepare the volume of "Wisconsin Statutes" (including the "Wisconsin Annotations") after each session.
Abbot, Charles, rules against reading
speeches, 245; death of Pitt hastened
by casting vote of, 451.
Adams, Charles Francis, favors desks
in the House, 241.
adverse committee reports in, 269;
closure in Senate of, 296; Yeas and
Nays in, 358; as to election of presid-
ing officers in, 471; revision of the
statutes in, 592.
Adams, Henry, comments on effect of Aldrich, Nelson Wilmarth, tries to get
keeping silence, 318.
Adams, John, 539; episode in connec-
tion with appointment of as delegate,
32; describes breaking of a quorum,
34; comment on by Josiah Quincy,
250; puts Yeas and Nays in Mas-
sachusetts Constitution, 357; ruling
by as to reconsideration, 385; treat-
ment of "The Legislative Power"
by, 417; as a presiding officer, 425;
talks as presiding officer, 443; and
votes, 452.
Adams, John Quincy, action of in the
New Jersey election case, 8; solves
problem of presenting petitions, 65;
suggests choice of committees by lot,
115; abuse of by John Randolph,
263; secures rule as to votes upon
amendments when previous ques-
tion voted, 273; refuses to vote, 371;
objects to pairs, 380; quotes from the
"Rolliad" as to duty of the Speaker,
435; election of as President aids
harmony, 509; tells of proposal to ex-
change in 1806, 528; as to appropri-
ating by resolution, 556.
Adams, Samuel, quorum-holding by,
32; discourteous treatment of by
Massachusetts Senate, 420; chosen
clerk of House in which he was a
member, 523.
Administrative detail, 514, 543, 584;
and Congress, 21, 49, 221; and com-
mittees, 126; and the passage of
bills, 192; in France, 266; enactment
of by general statutes, 559.
Admission of the public, 331.
Eschines, and the quorum, 23.
Agnew, Daniel, views of as to title re-
quirements, 548.
Alabama, committees in, 102, 103; the
readings in, 207; no amendments
changing purpose in, 234; limit on
length of speeches in, 266; debate on
some form of closure, 291.
Alexander, De A. S., as to private in-
terests and voting, 369.
Allen, William, tries to end executive
sessions of Senate, 335.
Allen, William Vincent, long speech by
in filibuster, 292.
Amendment, 223; in Parliament, 14,
88, 311; of skeleton bills in Michigan,
81; pro forma and other in Commit-
tee of the Whole in Congress, 90; in
the Massachusetts Convention of
1917-19, 92, 237; in Iowa, 194; and
germaneness, 209, 404; other safe-
guards as to, 230; Yeas and Nays on,
235, 359; and the previous question,
272; handled by use of the "kanga-
roo" in Parliament, 281; effect pro-
duced by debate on, 318; and the
Committee on Rules, 480.
Ames, Fisher, on the Committee of the
Whole, 99; describes filibuster in the
first Congress, 284; and the admis-
sion of ladies, 336; on party spirit in
1st Congress, 508.
Ammons, Elias Milton, 75, 77; on in-
troduction of bills, 75.
Anderson, William, on result of non-
partisan choice in Minnesota, 498.
d'Annunzio, Gabriele, provides annual
joint session in idealistic Constitu-
tion of Fiume, 418.
Anthony, Henry Bowen, ruling of as to
the right of any Senator to call for
reading in full, 215.
Applause, in Congress, 256; in Mas-
sachusetts and Georgia, 257.
Appropriations, time limits on bills for,
82; to be considered in Committee of
the Whole, 89; partisanship rare in
Committee on, 118, 503; handling of
bills making, 167; acquiring informa-
tion as basis for, 175; due delibera-
tion on, 192; foreign matter in debate
in connection with, 253, 255; Yeas
and Nays on, 359; and conference
committees, 404, 406; the work of,
477; greatest ever in Minnesota with
non-partisan election of Legislature,
499. See also Money Bills.
Argentina, members in, speak without
rising, 242; handling deadlocks in,
414.
Aristophon, indictments of for intro-
ducing new laws, 68.
Austin, John, on the technical difficulty
of legislation, 566.
Australia, money bills in, 412.
Austria, amendments in, 229; long
speech in, 283; handling deadlocks
in, 414.
Bacon, Anthony, 423.
Bacon, Augustus Octavius, 451; on
quorum-counting, 45; on the use of
names in debate, 249.
Aristotle, principle of classification of, Bacon, Sir Francis (Lord), not permit-
472.
Arizona, presiding officer of Senate
member of committees of, 120; read-
ing at length in, 213; amendments
and previous question in, 273; Yeas
and Nays in, 358.
Arkansas, the quorum in, 28; time
limits in, 82; powers of recess com-
mittees in, 178; the readings in, 207,
213; no amendments changing pur-
pose in, 234; the table in, 276; Yeas
and Nays in, 358; Lieutenant-Gov-
Jernor in Senate of, 448; effect of omis-
sion from Journal in, 532; no provi-
sion about titles in, 546; measures
open to veto in, 557; revision of the
statutes in, 592.
Arneson, Oscar, on Minnesota time
limit for introduction of bills, 83.
Arnold, Benedict, 357.
Arnold, Samuel Greene, quoted, 518.
Arthur, Chester Alan, determining
votes cast by, 452.
Ashmun, George, questions a resolu-
tion, 556.
Asquith, Herbert Henry, on the intro-
duction of bills, 59; on the Committee
of the Whole, 88; as to debate on first
reading, 267; commenting on form
of closure, 281; appeals to country
as to control of House of Lords, 410.
Athens, new laws in, 67; formalities of
oratory in, 239.
Attendance, advantage of small, 48; in
Committee of the Whole in Congress,
90, 254; of committees, 152; in Eng-
land, 185; in Canada, 188; in Demo-
cratic caucuses, 513. See also Pairs,
Quorum.
Attorneys-General, and the drafting
and revising of bills, 570, 582; in
South Carolina, 572.
Augustus Cæsar, discontinues publica-
tion of proceedings, 337.
ted to speak third time, 259; oratory
of, 303.
Bailey, Joseph Weldon, defends Demo-
cratic caucus, 511.
Balfour, Arthur James, on the intro-
duction of bills, 59; on the composi-
tion of committees, 184; on change in
debate in Parliament, 268; gives
figures as to divisions, 377; on party
discipline in Parliament, 501.
Barbour, Joseph L., ruling of as to mo-
tion for previous question, 18.
Bayard, James A., 2d, called to order
for referring to a caucus, 509.
Beard, Charles Austin, in criticism of
committee system, 193.
Beardsley, Samuel, moves to excuse
J. Q. Adams from voting, 371.
Belgium, quorum-counting in, 46;
committees in, 103, 114; Sections in,
114; Reporters of bills in, 168; voting
article by article in, 237; voting by
roll-call in, 355; presiding officers in,
437.
Belknap, Jeremy, tells of an oath of se-
crecy taken by Massachusetts legis-
lators, 333.
Bell, John, proposes requirement as to
tellers, 376.
Benton, Thomas Hart, 430; disapproves
recess committees, 178; length of
speeches of and the hour rule, 262,
263, 289, 290; criticizes pairing, 379;
on indirect election and the Senate,
426; and expunction of Jackson cen-
sure, 520.
Berkeley, Sir William, as to free schools
and printing in Virginia, 341.
Bernard, Governor Francis, required
to prevent intermixing in laws, 550;
and change by reference, 552.
Beverley, Robert, a Virginia Clerk
punished for making trouble, 527.
Bicameral system, the theory of, 396;
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