VI. STATE ADMINISTRATION.

*Finley, J. H., and Sanderson, J. F., The American Executive and Executive Methods. (American State Series.) 1908. Thorough discussion; treats of both the state and federal governments.

Fish, C. R., The Civil Service and Patronage. 1905. (Harvard Historical Studies.) History and analysis of the patronage system and civil service reform.

Goodnow, Frank J., The Principles of the Administrative Law of the United States. 1905. Sets forth fully the law of both central and local administration.

Proceedings at the Annual Meeting of the National Civil Service Reform League. 1884 to date. Papers and reports.

*Report of the Efficiency and Economy Committee, Illinois. 1915. Probably the best and most thorough-going of reports of its kind. State Regulation of Public Utilities. 1914. (Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, whole No. 142.) Symposium of articles on particular phases of the subject.

VII. STATE JUDICIARY.

*Baldwin, S. E., The American Judiciary. (American State Series.) 1905. Careful exposition of the federal and state judiciary. Beard, C. A., The Supreme Court and the Constitution. 1912. Inquiry whether the framers of the constitution intended the court to pass on constitutional questions. Concludes that they did.

Corwin, Edw. S., The Doctrine of Judicial Review. 1914. Presents the author's views concerning a number of important questions in American constitutional history, especially the doctrine of judicial review.

Davis, Horace A., The Judicial Veto.

1914. Three essays concluding that deciding upon the constitutionality of statutes is a political and not a legal function.

*Haines, C. G., The American Doctrine of Judicial Supremacy. 1914. Presents the history, scope and results of judicial control over legislation in the United States.

Judson, F. N., The Judiciary and the People. 1913. Discusses from the conservative point of view most of the current questions concerning the judiciary.

McLaughlin, A. C., The Courts, the Constitution and Parties. 1912. Five essays upon American constitutional problems.

Pound, Roscoe, The Scope and Purpose of Socioligical Jurisprudence. In Vols. 24 and 25, Harvard Law Review, 1910-12. Discusses the historical development and present status of the subject.

Ransom, Wm. L., Majority Rule and the Judiciary. 1912. Sets forth the reasons for the proposal that the people should reserve the power to recall judicial decisions.

Reform in the Administration of Justice. 1914. (Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, whole No. 141.) Symposium of papers on particular phases of the subject. Storey, Moorfield, The Reform of Judicial Procedure. 1911. Discusses particularly the reduction of litigation by legislation, the law's delay and criminal procedure.

VIII. THE INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL.

*Barnett, Jas. D., The Operation of the Initiative, Referendum and Recall in Oregon. 1915. A minute and exhaustive study of the operation of direct legislation in the state where it has been most extensively employed.

Beard, C. A., and Shultz, B. L., Select Documents on the State-Wide Initiative, Referendum and Recall. 1912. Includes all of the constitutional amendments providing for a state-wide system of initiative, referendum and recall then in force, several of the most significant statutes elaborating them, pending amendments, six important judicial decisions, etc.

Equity. Quarterly. Best publication for current news of direct legislation development.

*Initiative, Referendum and Recall. 1912. (Annals of American Academy of Political and Social Science, whole No. 132.) Symposium of papers on particular phases of the subject.

Munro, Wm. B., Editor, The Initiative, Referendum and Recall. 1912. Papers on important phases of the subject by prominent statesmen and publicists.

Oberholtzer, E. P., The Referendum, Initiative and Recall in America. New Ed., 1911. Thorough discussion of the historical development of direct legislation and the recall. The author is opposed to their adoption.

Wilcox, D. F., Government by All the People. 1912. Discusses the initiative, referendum and recall as instruments of democracy.

IX. SUFFRAGE AND ELECTIONS.

*Commons, J. R.. Proportional Representation. (2nd Ed.) 1907. Α thorough exposition. Shows historical significance of present movement for proportional representation.

Crothers, Samuel McChord, Meditations on Votes for Women. 1914. Entertaining and lucid presentation of arguments for woman suffrage; delightful from literary point of view.

Dallinger, F. W., Nominations for Elective Office in the United States. 1897. (Harvard Historical Studies, Vol. 4.) Historical and critical study of nominations by convention. Humphreys, J. H., Proportional Representation. 1911. Treatment of the subject with especial reference to the English Parliament. Hearings before the Committee on Woman Suffrage. United States Senate. 1913. Gives arguments as presented on both sides of the question.

Hoag, C. G., Effective Voting. 1914. Senate Document 359; 63d Congress, 2nd session. Discusses proportional representation and explains the various systems of preferential voting.

*Jones, C. L., Readings on parties and Elections in the United States. 1912. Collection of extracts arranged carefully for the student. Jenks, J. W., Principles of Politics. 1909. Contains interesting chapter on suffrage.

Macy, Jesse, Party Organization and Machinery. (American State Series.) Rev. Ed. 1912. Chiefly a description of party committees. Mathews, Shailer, Editor, Woman Suffrage. (Vol. 7, of Woman Citizen Series.) 1913. Collection of historical and informational articles.

Murphey, E. G., Problems of the Present South. 1914. Study of suffrage questions.

Phillips, J. B., Educational Qualifications of Voters. 1906. University of Colorado Studies. Summarizes educational qualifications of the several states.

Stephenson, G. T., Race Distinctions in American Law. 1910. Contains excellent chapter on negro suffrage.

*Sumner, Helen L., Equal Suffrage. 1909. A thorough study of the operation and effects of woman suffrage in Colorado.

Women in Public Life. 1914. (Annals of American Academy of Political and Social Science, whole No. 145.) Symposium of articles on woman suffrage, both favorable and unfavorable, and other phases of the subject.

X. STATE FINANCE.

Adams, H. C., Public Debts. 1887. Sets forth the principles underlying the use of public credit. Shows historical development of the use of public credit.

(American Science Series.)

Science of Finance. 1912. Standard text book on public expenditure, public revenue and public credit.

*Agger, E. E., The Budget in the American Commonwealths. (Columbia doctorial dissertation.) 1907. Discusses the methods used in the states for the safeguarding of public financial operations.

*Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science: Whole No. 147, Readjustments in Taxation; whole No. 151, Public Budgets. Thorough-going symposia on the subjects.

Bastable, C. F., Public Finance. (3rd Ed.) 1903. Thorough exposition by a professor in the University of Dublin.

Bullock, Chas. J., Selected Readings in Public Finance. 1906. Illustrative articies from standard authors both American and foreign. Cooley, Thos. M., A Treatise on the Law of Taxation. 2 Vol. (3rd Ed.) 1903. The standard work on the subject. Includes the law of local assessments.

Ford, H. J., The Cost of Our National Government. 1910. Deals with the budgetary methods of the federal government.

George, Henry, Progress and Poverty. 1879. Reprint, 1912. Sets forth the social and financial philosophy of the single tax.

Haig, Robert Murray. The Exemption of Improvements from Taxation in Canada and the United States. A report prepared for the Committee on Taxation of the City of New York. 1915. Gives the results of the author's investigations in a large number of cities, with generalizations and conclusions.

Judson, F. N., Treatise on the Power of Taxation, State and Federal, in the United States. 1903. Complete treatise. Emphasizes distinction between the taxing power and the construction of particular statutes passed in the exercise of the power.

*Lowrie, S. Gale, The Budget. 1912. An investigation made for the Wisconsin State Board of Public Affairs. Discusses American and foreign budgetary methods.

Need for a National Budget. 1912. Report of President Taft's Commission on Economy and Efficiency, House Document 854, 62nd Congress, 2nd session. Result of a thorough investigation of congressional methods of financial control.

Plehn, C. C., Introduction to Public Finance. (3rd Ed.) 1911. An excellent brief account.

*Proceedings of the National Conferences on Taxation of the National [formerly International] Tar Association. 1907 to date. (Formerly State and Local Taxation.) Reports and papers dealing with every phase of the subject.

*Report of Special Tax Commission, State of Kentucky. 1912-14. Sets forth the results of a careful investigation and gives interesting suggestions for reform.

Seligman, E. R. A., Essays in Taxation. (8th Ed.) 1913. Historical and critical discussion of the more important phases of the subject.

The Income Tax. (2nd Ed.) 1914. An exhaustive discuscussion, historical and critical.

Stourm, René, Le Budget. 1888. The standard treatment of the budget. Wealth, Debt and Taxation. 13th Census. 1913. Includes an exposition of the taxation systems of all of the states.

West, Max, The Inheritance Tax. (2nd Ed. Completely revised and enlarged.) 1908. (Columbia University Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, IV, 2, 1893-4.) A careful and complete statement of the development of inheritance taxation in the United States.

XI. SOCIAL LEGISLATION.

American Labor Legislation Review. Vol. 1. 1911 to date. Quarterly. Current news and discussion.

Bulletins of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Issued at frequent but irregular intervals. Contain discussions of topics of particular current interest, statistics, compilations of statutes, decisions, etc. Clarke, L. D., The Law of the Employment of Labor. 1911. Covers the field of law affecting the employment of labor in the United States. *Commons, Jno. R., and Andrews, Jno. B., Principles of Labor Legislation. 1916. Thorough-going discussion, both critical and constructive.

Ely, R. T., Property and Contract in Their Relation to the Distribution of Wealth. 2 Vol. 1914. Treats of what the author considers the fundamentals of existing social and economic life from the point of view of distribution.

Freund, Ernst, The Police Power. 1904.

Standard treatise on what

the author defines as "the power of promoting the public welfare by restraining and regulating the use of liberty and property." *Goodnow, F. J., Social Reform and the Constitution. 1911. Shows the

possibilities of constitutional development, through judicial interpretation, to meet current social needs.

Hollander, Jacob H., The Abolition of Poverty. 1914. Discusses briefly the possibilities of the various currently proposed reforms. Orth, Samuel P., Readings on the Relation of Government to Property and Industry. 1915. Brings together some of the most significant of current discussions of the subject, especially from the law reviews.

Proceedings of Conference of Governors. 1908. Papers and discussions upon the conservation of natural resources.

Rubinow, I. M., Social Insurance. 1913. A thorough discussion of insurance against industrial accidents, sickness, unemployment and old age, invalidity and death.

Seager, H. R., Principles of Economics. 1914. A standard treatise; especially to be recommended for its discussion of labor problems.