judgment, as he must whenever confronted by the facts of the actual world. This method has some great advantages over that of getting ready-made conclusions from text-books, although it does not in the study of political science supersede the latter. The process while irksome at the beginning will soon have the same exhilarating effect upon the mind that brisk physical exercise has on the body. The Editor, in the notes accompanying the selections, has avoided making summaries or drawing conclusions. He has merely given the general setting of the selection, and indicated its relation to other matters. In cases where parts of articles are printed, the material omitted is usually historic or of an incidental nature, while the part reproduced deals directly with present day methods of government. The Editor desires to make special acknowledgments to various publishers and authors who have permitted him to make selections from articles or works, published or written by them. He desires in the first place to mention the "Autobiography of Senator Hoar," published by Scribner's Sons and Company, an admirable treasure-house of political reminiscence, to be compared among recent books only to the Memoirs of Carl Schurz. The same publishers have permitted the use of portions of articles published in Scribner's Magazine, by Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip on the Treasury, General W. H. Carter on the War Department, Mr. S. P. Langley on the Scientific Work of the Government, and Governor Magoon on the War Department. Secretary Root permitted the use of his address on Local Self-Government of the States; and Judge Charles F. Amidon, that on the Nation and the Constitution. Acknowledgments are further due the following publications and writers: The Atlantic Monthly, for articles by Mr. S. W. McCall, on the Power of the Senate and on the Fifty-Ninth Congress; Judge F. C. Lowell, on American Diplomacy; as well as Mr. A. P. Dennis, on Our Changing Constitution. The North American Review permitted the use of articles by Mr. A. Maurice Lowe, on the Oligarchy of the Senate, and Mr. Albert D. Currier, on Government by Executive Rulings. The Political Science Quarterly is entitled to acknowledgment for those by Mr. Harold M. Bowman, on American Administrative Tribunals, and Mr. A. P. Dennis, on the Democratic Convention of 1904; the Independent for that by Mr. Albert Halstead on The President at Work; the Outlook for the article by Mr. Huntingdon Wilson, on the Foreign Service of the United States. The Review of Reviews permitted the use of the article by Mr. W. B. Shaw, on The Civil Service under Roosevelt, and of Mr. Bowker, on the Post Office; McClure's Magazine of that by President Cleveland, on The Government in the Chicago Strike of 1894; The Forum, that by Mr. H. L. West, on the Senate; and the Michigan Law Review, that on The Department of Justice by Professor J. A. Fairlie. The Editor is further greatly obliged to the publishers of the New York Evening Post for the permission to reproduce a number of valuable articles and editorials from that journal. Two articles have been taken from foreign Reviews, that by Professor S. J. McLean, on President Roosevelt and the Trusts and by Mr. Frederic Harrison, on the Inauguration of President McKinley. The Presidents, Senators, Representatives, Judges and Government Officials whose careful and authoritative statements in Congressional debates and public documents form the great bulk of this collection are also entitled to the personal thanks of students of American Government for their lucid contributions towards its description. The Editor also desires to express his obligation to Mr. William L. Bailey and to Professor R. B. Scott, for looking over the proofs. I. THE PRESIDENT. CONTENTS Albert Halstead, The President at Work Representative J. S. Williams Announces his Policy Report of a Special Rule, April 4, 1908 . . Discussion on the Bridge Bill, May 13, 1908 |