...for such meeting. SECT. 12. The city council shall determine the rules of its own proceedings, and be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members. In case of the absence of the president, the city council shall choose a president pro tempore, and...

...other provision* common to both, which we now proceed to discuss. The Constitution provides: "Each House shall be the judge of the election returns, and qualifications of its own members." It is necessary that those powers should be vested in the House where the membership is claimed. Thi*...

...members as president pro tempore, who shall, however, have the same right to vote as other members. Each house shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members, and may determine the roles of its own proceedings, except as herein provided. Each house lhall keep...

...Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur in amendments, as in other bills. SECTION 4. 1. Each House shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members; and shall have power to punish them for disorderly behavior or misconduct, by censure, fine, imprisonment...

...in place of the Vice President, who is at ordinary sittings president of the Senate. The Senate is the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members. Thus in the famous case of Reed Smoot of Utah, discussed widely in the newspapers of the time on account...

...member of the house of representatives or any office within the gift of the legislature. Sec. 9. Each house shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members. A majority of the members of each house shall constitute a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn...

...were clearly within its constitutional authority, it being provided in the Constitution that "each house shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members"; and undoubtedly the House had the right, after sufficient information, to judge and pass upon the election...

...Congress as a whole may alter the Constitution by a twothirds vote. Each of the two Houses of Congress is the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members and may, by two-thirds vote, expel a member. The period termed a "Congress," continues for two years....

...member of the house of representatives or any office within the gift of the legislature. Sec. 9. Each house shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members. A majority of the members of each house shall constitute a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn...

...Senators from each State, chosen by the legislature thereof for six years," and makes each House " the judge of the election, returns, and qualifications of its own members. ' ' In the investigation of the claimants' right to seats the first question to be determined is, Was...