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Excerpt from Rules of the Senate of the United States: Consisting of Special Rules of the Senate, the Joint Rules of the Two Houses, and Such Provisions of the Constitution as Relating to the Organization, Power, Privileges, Proceeding, and Duties of the Senate of the United States Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members, Quorum. And a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may ad journ from day to day, and may be authorized Absent members. To compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties as each house may provide. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.