Congress progressive reform

Robert Harrison0521827892, 9780521827898, 9780511195853

This series of case-studies of reform legislation in Congress during the early twentieth century explores the nature of progressivism and the processes of political change which resulted in the establishment of the modern American state. Among the topics covered are railroad regulation, labor relations, social policy of the District of Columbia, Republican insurgency, and the nature of Democratic progressivism. The work will be of interest to students of twentieth-century political history, the history of Congress, and the origins of the modern American state.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Half-title……Page 3
Title……Page 5
Copyright……Page 6
Contents……Page 7
Tables……Page 8
Preface……Page 11
Acknowledgments……Page 13
Abbreviations……Page 15
1 Introduction……Page 19
Progressivism and the New American State……Page 20
A “New Political Order”……Page 22
Theories of the State……Page 24
Congress and Progressive Reform……Page 27
Men and Measures……Page 31
In the House of the “Czar”……Page 36
The House Democrats……Page 45
“The Millionaires’ Club”……Page 47
Party Organization in the Senate……Page 51
The Legislative Process……Page 56
Congress and the Electorate……Page 58
The Man in the White House……Page 63
3 The Troubled Subject of Railroad Regulation in the Progressive Era……Page 68
Demands for Regulation……Page 70
The Hepburn Bill……Page 76
The Senate and Judicial Review……Page 80
The Search for Compromise……Page 85
Senate Voting on the Hepburn Bill……Page 88
The Limitations of the Hepburn Act……Page 95
Mr. Taft’s Railroad Bill……Page 99
Congress and the Mann-Elkins Bill……Page 102
Conclusion……Page 110
Prologue……Page 115
The “Bill of Grievances”……Page 118
The AFL and the Campaign of 1906……Page 124
“Government By Injunction”……Page 126
“Conspiracies in Restraint of Trade”……Page 135
Conclusion……Page 139
Toward a Federal Social Policy……Page 143
A “Model City”……Page 145
The Alleys of Washington……Page 148
The Right to Play……Page 151
Child Labor in the District……Page 155
Education and Welfare……Page 159
Government and Finance……Page 162
Congress and the District……Page 167
6 The Senate and Progressive Reform……Page 174
Republican Voting in the Senate……Page 175
Principally Concerning Railroads……Page 179
Pure Food and Drugs……Page 182
The Conservation of Children and Trees……Page 186
Conservatives and Progressives……Page 188
The Payne-Aldrich Tariff……Page 191
Patterns of Insurgency……Page 199
The Insurgent Profile……Page 203
7 Patterns of Republican Insurgency in the House of Representatives……Page 210
Cannon, Roosevelt, and Reform……Page 212
“Subsidy Is Odious”……Page 216
The Despotism of the Rules……Page 225
Rules Reform……Page 229
Rules, Revision, Regulation……Page 232
Insurgents and Progressives……Page 237
Conclusion……Page 245
8 Progressivism, Democratic Style……Page 247
Strategies……Page 249
What Divided Democrats from Republicans?……Page 252
“Democratic Doctrine”……Page 258
The Limits of Democratic Progressivism……Page 262
A Jeffersonian Democracy……Page 264
Conservative and Progressive Democrats……Page 269
9 Congress, Progressive Reform, and the New American State……Page 273
Progressivism in Congress……Page 274
Progressivism and the New American State……Page 279
Beyond the “State of Courts and Parties”……Page 283
Congress and Political Change……Page 289
Appendix The Analysis of Roll Calls……Page 295
Index……Page 299