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discussed.  What impressed me most was the [[red underline]] shortness of the debates [[/red underline]] each speaker being limited to 3 minutes and the chairman enforcing this rule in a very business-like way.  The thought occurs to me that the endless complications of our methods of legislation [[are?]] mostly to the fact that our modern methods of government were devised for an incomparably smaller country and simpler conditions of life and industry and that now the country has become so large as to make our older methods totally unadapted to new needs.  It seems almost self-evident that all these questions will have to be pondered and settled by competent nonpartisan 

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non political commissions.  A start has [[strikethrough]] being ma [[/strikethrough]] already been made in regard to railroad legislation, and now the Bill of a permanent [[red underline]] Tariff Commission [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] has [[/strikethrough]] seems likely to be adopted.  The main trouble in all these debates of [[red underline]] lawyers and lawyer politicians is that [[/red underline]] their reasoning is all [[underline]] qualitative [[/underline]] while it ought to be [[underline]] quantitative.[[/underline]]  The latter way of reasoning would exclude many sophistries and exaggerated points of view which have so often caused an aberration of judgement in political and legislative matters. - Quite a large number of visitors-tourists in the Capital.  [[red underline]] Everything conducted with impressive democratic simplicity [[/red underline]] and directness.  On leaving I met a group

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