| Associations, institutions, etc - 1881 - 746 pages
...be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. SEC. 5. Each house shall be the judge of the election, returns, and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business ; but a smaller number may adjourn... | |
| Weston Arthur Goodspeed, Charles Blanchard - Ohio - 1882 - 894 pages
...be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. SEC. 5. Each house shall be the judge of the election, returns, and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business ; but a smaller number may adjourn... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 1302 pages
...expressly granted by the Constitution to the House.which have any similarity to judicial power, are: 1. It shall be the judge of the election, returns and qualifications of its own members. 2. It may authorize a number smaller than a quorum to compel the attendance of absent members, in such... | |
| James Abram Garfield - Presidents - 1882 - 842 pages
...the Constitution which provide for the trial of impeachments, and those which empower each house to " be the judge of the election, returns, and qualifications of its own members," and to punish or expel its members for disorderly behavior. These clauses confer no authority whatever... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Elections - 1883 - 706 pages
...or disregard. "Each House shall \)ti the judge of the election, returns, and nitalijicatiomt of Us own members." No law that was ever passed on this...well illustrated by the doctrine laid down by McCrary in his Law of Elections, section 349, in reference to the laws made to govern contested elections :... | |
| Johnson County (Iowa) - 1883 - 974 pages
...be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. SEC. 5. Each house shall be the judge of the election, returns, and qualifications of its own members , and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn... | |
| California - 1883 - 490 pages
...members us 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 rules of its own proceedings, except as herein provided. Each House shall keep... | |
| Austin Abbott - Civil procedure - 1883 - 602 pages
...office, there also is the remedy on the floor of the house, which is declared by the Constitution to be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members (Const, art. IJ, § 10). In the distribution of responsibility for a fair vote, a correct count and... | |
| Herman Dieck - Presidents - 1884 - 778 pages
...be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different day. Sec. 5. 1 Each House shall be the judge of the election, returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business ; but a smaller number may adjourn... | |
| Education - 1893 - 376 pages
...new Congress come into existence? (6) When will the present Congress expire ? R. In Congress " Each house shall be the judge of the election returns and qualifications of its own members." why ? 7. Senators and Representatives in Congress are privileged from arrest during attendence at any... | |
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