Alexandria gazette & advertiser. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1822-1824, 1824-01-29

senate SaaiI cnoOeo tbov ACC FEostoSss.
. Quorum for the purpose shall consist
of Two thirds Of the whole number of Sc
majors: and . majority of such quorum
shall 30 sufficient to make . choice.
No personsconsitutionally ineligible
to the Office of President, shall be sligi-
BILE to that Of Vice President Of the u
sited States. And ifany person so in.
eligible shall have a majority Of the
votes Of the electoral districts, or shall
be ono Of the two highest, if there be no
majority, then . new election for Vice
President shall be ordered without de-
lay, and the President of tho Senate
shall exercise the functions Of q Vice
President until q Vice President be
chosen.
And all questions relative to the eli.
gibility Of the persons voted for a. Pre-
sideut or Vice President, and every O.
thar question arising on the said cleo
ton, shall be determined by concurrent
vote of each House Of Congress.
Congress shall pass such laws, fixing
the time Of holding the election, IS will
give the necessary time for referring
the election to the electors, in ease DO
person has q majority of votes.
The proposed amendment was re.
ceived, and ordered to lie on the table,
and be printed.
Mr.. Floyd laid on the table the fol.
lowing, for consideration on Monday
next.
"ResolUed. That the President bore.
ques,ed to cause t be laid before this
House an estimate of the expense which
would be incurred by transporting tho
troops now at the Council Bluffs to the
mouth Of the Colombia or Oregon Ri
YER"
MIR. Rich submitted the following
proposition OF amendment to the stand
ing rules of the House. viz:
"Resolued, That the 69th section OF
the Rules of this House be expunged,
and that the following be inserted un-
der the head of s:GbgAtpittees Of tho
Whole House," And il6npediateiy pre-.
ceding the 74th section, thai 10 to say
"E~xcIusive.of the eCouHityee of the
Whole ON the state e. the oion, there
! shall be three committees Of the Whole
| House, to wit: One on Bills and other
sabiects of Q public or general nature;
ono on private or local Bills; and one
on subjects of a private or local nature,
on which q committee shall have made
an u~nfavorable report.
when q subject shall have been re-
ferred to . Committee of the Whole, 1t
shall be assigned to the appropriate
committee by the Speaker; and, unless
! otherwise ordered, be entered on tho
Calendar for The next succeeding day.
Each of the said committees shall
elect its chairman, who, if prssent,
shall preside at it, sittings; but, if sb.
sent, his place, for the tiuie being, shall
be filled by a member to be designated
by the Speaker.
"The House having resolved is-
self into either Of the said committees
of tho whole, the several subjects shall
DO announced for confederation, in the
order in which they stand Cd the Ca
lendar, but shall not be considered ex.
cept on motion ola member, seconded
by a majority Of the committee. PRo.
vIDsD. that the House may specially
resolve itself into a committee Of the
whole on any subject which the com.
mittee shall previously have refused to
consider.
Leave Of the House shall in no Ease
be necessary TO authorize a Committee
to report it's sessions on subjects not
defnitively acted on"
Mr.. Rich, in Offering this resolution,
observed that, among tho opinions
which he had for many years held,
there was none in the correctness of
which he had greater confidence, than
that the mode Of sr~ansacting bust
meas in this House was, in one respect,
susceptible of material improvement {:
he referred to that part of it which re-
lates to the appointment Of q great
number Of committees of the whole
House to follow in succession, in tho
order in which the various subjects
were brought up and stood on the dock
ct. A few years after he had first bad
the honor of a seat in this House, q
General committee of the whole was
appointed, to whom any number Of
SUBJECTS. however diverse, might be
successively referred. Tho ons
quence Of this practice soon grew to be.
that, towards the close of each session,
as business became accumulated in the
House, every thing was referred to this
committee of the Whole, and, through
the great pressure of it's multifarious
objects of attention. numbers Of them