Constitution of the United States Author:House Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Page. Sec. 31. Bills. Second reading in the House - - 145 32. Reading papers ----- 146 33. Privileged questions ----- 147 34. Previous question -----... more » 155 35. Amendments 157 36. Division of question - ... 161 37. Co-existing questions - - - - 162 38. Equivalent questions - 163 39. The question - - - - - - 164 40. Third reading .... 165 41. Division of the House - ... 166 42. Titles - ... - j-ji 43. Reconsideration - - . - - 171 44. Bills sent to the other House - - 173 45. Amendments between the Houses - 174 46. Conferences - 175 47. Messages - 178 48. Assent - - 180 49. Journals - ..'.... 181 50. Adjournment 182 51. Session 183 52. Treaties - 185 53. Impeachment ... . [88 chapter{Section 4PREFACE, The Constitution of the United States, establishing a legislature for the Union under certain forms, authorizes each branch of it "to determine the rules of its own proceedings." The Senate have accordingly formed some rules for its own government; but these going only to few cases, they have referred to the decision of their President, without debate and without appeal, all questions of order arising either under their own rules, or where they have provided none. This places under the discretion of the President a very extensive field of decision, and one which, irregularly exercised, would have a powerful effect on the proceedings and determinations of the House. The President must feel, weightily and seriously, this confidence in his discretion, and the necessity of recurring, for its government, to some known system of rules, that he may neither leave himself free to indulge caprice or passion, nor open to the imputation of them. But to what system of rules is he to recur, as supplementary to those of the Sen...« less