R. Sterling '97, Princeton's second speaker, sought to demonstrate the specific advantages of co-operation between executive and legislative departments. He maintained that such co operation would produce a thorough discussion concerning legislation; that it would substitute a responsible for an irresponsible government and that it would secure better and more practical legislation. The following reasons were given:
That competition would be improved, (A) in civil service; (B) in the committee.
The speaker then asserted that hasty legislation would be improved, because (a) it would be carefully deliberated in the House (b) the Senate must pass upon it and that those who pass the laws will be made responsible for the working of them.
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