...in the government of the District of Columbia as their successor. The executive power was vested in a governor appointed for four years by the President of the United States, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The President was also empowered to appoint the members...

...a legislature consisting of two houses, the Philippine Commission of eight members appointed by the President of the United States, with the consent of the Senate, and a Philippine assembly elected by the people of the Philippines. The executive branch of the government...

...subject to the veto of Congress. The executive power is vested in Governors appointed for a term of four years by the President of the United States with the consent of the Senate. In the organized Territories there is a series of courts of which the higher ones are held by judges...

...some Territories have created a sort of rudimentary constitution by enacting a Bill of Rights.2 ln every Territory, as in every State, the executive,...President, together with a secretary, treasurer, auditor, and usually also a superintendent of public instruction, and a librarian. The governor commands the...

...Territories, kept distinct. The executive consists of a governor and secretary, appointed for terms of four years by the President of the United States with the consent of the Senate, and of an attorney-general, treasurer, commissioner of public lands, superintendent of public instruction,...

...; it was afterward conferred on an elective legislature. In the later form, the Executive consisted of a governor appointed for four years by the President of the United States, Mith the consent of the Senate, and removable by the President, together with a secretary, treasurer,...

...members, at least five of whom must be native Porto Ricans. All members are appointed for a term of four years by the President of the United States, with the consent and approval of the United States Senate. Six of the 11 members are also heads of the Executive Departments,...

...Comptroller of the Currency, who are members ex officia, and five others appointed to hold office for ten years by the President of the United States with the consent of the Senate. In appointing them the President has due regard to a fair representation of the different commercial,...

...been considerably and significantly different. Like Hawaii, Porto Rico has a governor appointed by the President of the United States with the consent of the Senate, and a local legislature. Instead of reporting to the Interior Department the governor sends his annual...

...March 8, 1886. There were twenty-five directors of the concern, five of whom were appointed by the President of the United States with the consent of the Senate, and not more than three by the State ; the stockholders chose the others. The corporation could not accept...