Constitution of the U SGeneral Books LLC, 2009 - 286 pages This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1879* Excerpt: ... necessary that the committee shall be full when a paper is acted upon.--Journal, 1, 34, p. 1143. Nor is it even necessary that every member shall have been notified of an adjourned meeting, if it shall appear that at such meeting a quorum was present, and that a majority of such quorum authorized a report to be made.--Same Journal, pp. 1433, 1434. It is the practice for committees to appoint subcommittees to make investigations, and in such case no member of the committee, as a matter of right, can take for examination papers referred to a subcommittee.--Cong. Globe, 1, 39, p. 4019. "A committee cannot receive a petition but through the House."--Manual, p. 60. "Members having petitions and memorials to present may hand them to the Clerk, indorsing the same with their names, and the reference or disposition to be made thereof; and such petitions and memorials shall be entered on the Journal, subject to the control and direction of the Speaker."--Rule 131, p. 135. This is the only mode of presenting a petition for reference now recognized by the rules. The rule, however, is construed to authorize the withdrawal of old papers from the files, for the purpose of reference to the appropriate committee. Iu this connection it is deemed proper to call attention to that portion of the foregoing rule which requires that the name of the member and that of the committee shall be indorsed upon the paper to be referred. "The Clerk may deliver the bill to any member of the committee, but it is usual to deliver it to him who is first named."--Manual, p. 69. In the House of Representatives, the long-settled practice has been, where the committee have a regular place of meeting, as is the case with all standing committees, for the Clerk to take ... |
