MEETING DAYS OF CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.

ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED.

[Committees not given below have no regular meeting days, but meet upon the call of the chairmen.]

MEETING DAYS OF CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.

[Committees not given below have no regular meeting days, but meet upon the call of the

MONDAY

TUESDAY

WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY.

FRIDAY

chairman.]

SENATE.-Judiciary; Post-Offices and Post-Roads; Public

Lands.

HOUSE. - Indian Affairs; Mines and Mining; Patents; Pensions; Printing; Public Lands; Rivers and Harbors.

SENATE.-Education and Labor; Finance; Indian Affairs;

Pensions.

HOUSE. Claims; Elections; Interstate and Foreign Commerce; Indian Affairs; Invalid Pensions; Judiciary; Militia; Naval Affairs; Post-Office and Post-Roads; Ways and Means.

_SENATE.—Claims; Foreign Relations; Interstate Commerce;
Naval Affairs; Patents.

HOUSE. - Agriculture; Coinage, Weights, and Measures;
District of Columbia; Labor; Rivers and
Harbors; Territories; War Claims.

SENATE.-Commerce; Library; Military Affairs; Privileges
and Elections; Territories.

HOUSE. Foreign Affairs; Indian Affairs; Judiciary; Mili-
tary Affairs; Pacific Railroads; Private Land
Claims; Public Buildings and Grounds; Public
Lands; Railways and Canals; Ways and
Means.

SENATE.-Agriculture and Forestry; District of Columbia;
Fisheries; Public Buildings and Grounds.

HOUSE. - Banking and Currency; Elections; Invalid Pen-
sions; Military Affairs; Post-Office and Post-
Roads; Printing; Rivers and Harbors.

RATIO OF REPRESENTATION.

Constitution, 1789, ratio 30,000, whole number of Representatives.
First Census, 1793, ratio 33,000, whole number of Representatives.
Second Census, 1803, ratio 33,000, whole number of Representatives.
Third Census, 1813, ratio 35,000, whole number of Representatives
Fourth Census, 1823, ratio 40,000, whole number of Representatives_
Fifth Census, 1833, ratio 47,700, whole number of Representatives..
Sixth Census, 1843, ratio 70,680, whole number of Representatives_
Seventh Census, 1853, ratio 93,423, whole number of Representatives_
Eighth Census, 1863, ratio 127,381, whole number of Representatives
Ninth Census, 1873, ratio 131,425, whole number of Representatives
Tenth Census, 1883, ratio 151,911, whole number of Representatives_
Eleventh Census, 1893, ratio 173,901, whole number of Representatives

In connection with the above table the following exhibit will be of value:
1790. Population of the United States
1800. Population of the United States
1810. Population of the United States
1820. Population of the United States
1830. Population of the United States
1840. Population of the United States
1850. Population of the United States
1860. Population of the United States

65

105

141

181

213

240

223

233

243

293

325

356

3, 929, 214 5, 308, 483

7, 239, 881 9, 633, 822 12, 866, 020 17,069, 453 23, 191, 876

31, 443, 321 38, 558, 371

50, 155, 783

1870. Population of the United States

62, 622, 250