Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1861-08-21

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5. The House 81 Rstrsseniatyss shalI choose ia :
speaker aud other eieeEs; Aad shall have the e
power Of Impeachment, exceps that any indicaI -
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l. The Senate of the Confederate States shall be co 8
posed of Senators from each State, chosen for x
years by the legislature thereof the regular ses >
| next Immediately preceding the commencement j
The term OF service and each Senator shall have tI
/ vote.
| 2 Immediately after they shall be assembled .
consequence of the first election they shall be diyi
equally may be into three classes The seats ii
the senators of the first class shall be vacated at ne
expiration of the second year of the second class
the expiration of the fourth year and of the third e
at the expiration of the sixth year that onethrd
may be chosen every second year and if vacan4
happen by resignation or otherwise during the Re-
cess OF lhe legisature oi any state, the executte
thereof may make temporary appointments until sis
next meeting of the Legislature, which shall then i
such vacancies
g. No person shall be Senator who shall not hissss
attained the age of thirty years and be citizen of
Confederate States and who shall not when elected
be inhabitant of the State for which he shall be
chosen.
4 The Vice President of the Confederate States ss
be President of the Senate, but shall have VOTE n
less they shall be equally divided. -
8. The Senate shall choose their other officers ahd
also President teHpOre in the absence of the Wee
President, when he shall exercise the Office of Pr
dent of the Confederate States.
8. The Senate shall have the sole power try all m
peachments. Whenstting for that purpose they shan
be oath affirmation. When the President of the
Confederate States is tried the Chief Justice shall pre-
side and person shall be convicted without the
concurrence of twothrds of the members present.
I. Judgment in cases of Impeachment shall not ex-
tend further than to removal from Office and disquai-
cation to hold and enjoy any office of honor or profit
under the Confederate States party convicted
SHALL nevertheless be liable and subject 10 indict-a
ment, trial, judgment and punishment according TO
law. = .
SECTION 4.
1. The time, place and of holding elections
for Senators and Representatives shall be prescribed
in each State by the leisl thereof subject the
provisions of this Constitution but the Congress may
at any time, by law, make or alter such regulations
except the times and places of choosing Senator's
=. The Congress- shall assemble at least every
year and such meeting shall be the first Monday in
December unless they shall, by law appoint differ
ent day.
SECTION 5.
1. Each House shall be the Judge of the elections
returns and qualifications of its own MEMBERS and
majority OF each shall constitute quorum to do bus
ness but smaller number may adjourn from day to
day. and may be authorized to compel the attendance
of absent members, in such manner and under such
penalties each House may provide.
2 Each House may determine the rules of its pro-
lV pnavi iOr
and, with the concurrence of othrds of the whole
number, expe member.
s. Each House shall keep a journal of its proceed
ings and from time TO time publish the excepting
such parts may in their judgment require secrecy
and the yeas and nays of the members of either
House, question: SHALL the desire of one nth
Of those present, by entered on the journal.
q: Neither House, during the session of Congress,
SHALL without the consent of the other, adjourn for
more than three days. to any other place than
in which the two Houses shall be sitting.
SECTION g.
1. The Senator'S and Representatives shall receive
compensation for their services to be ascertaned by
law and paid out of the treasury of the Confederate
States. They shall, in all cases, except treason and
breach of the peace be privileged from during
their attendance at the session of their respective
Houses, and in going to and returning from the
and for any speech or debate 10 either House. they
shall not be questioned IN any other place.
2. No Senator or Representative shall, during the
time for which he was elected be appointed TO any
civil office under the authority of the Confederate
States, which shall have been created, or the emou
ments whereof shall have been during such
federate States shall be member of either House
during his continuance in office. But Congress NAV
by law grant to the principal officer in each of the Ex
ecutve Departments seat upon the floor of either
House, with the privilege of discussing any measures
appertaining TO his department.
SECTION Z.
L. All bills for raising revenue shall originate in the
House OF Representatives.; but the Senate may pro-
pose or concur with amendments on other bills.
2. Every bill which shall have passed both Houses,
shall, before it becomes law, be presented TO the
President of the Confederate States if he approve he
shall sign it but not he shal! it with his OBJ
jectonso the House in which it shall have originated
who shall enter the objections at large their iourn
ais and proceed to reconsider it. IT, after such reconsd
eration othrds of that House shall agree TO pass
10 the other House, by which it shall likewise be re-
considered, and if approved by two-thirds OF that
House, it shall become law. But in all such cases.
the votes oi both Housesshal be determined by yeas
and nays, and the voting for and against the
bill shall be entered the journal of each House re-
spectlyely. Ii any bill shall be returned bv the
President within ten days Sundays excepted) after il
shall have been presented TO him. the same shall be a
law, in like manner he had signed it, unless the
Congress- by their adjournment prevent return in
which case il shall not be law. The President NAV
approve any appropriation and disapprove any other
appropriation in the same bill In such case he shall,
in signing the BILL designate the appropriations disap-
proved; and shall return copy of such appropria-
tons with his objections, to the House in which the
Dill shall have originated and the proceedings
shall then be had in of other bills disapproved
by the President.
g. Every order resolution or VOTE to which the con-
currence of both Houses may be necessary Except
question of adjournment) shall be presented to the
President of the Confederate States and before The
same shall take effect, shall be approved NY him; or
being disapproyed by him, may be re-passed by two
thirds of both Houses according to the rules aud m
tations prescribed in case of a bill.
SECTION
The Congress shall have power
1. To lay and collect taxes, duties mposts, and ex
cses for revenue necessary to pay the debts provide
for the common defence, and carry on the govern
of the Confederate States, but bounties shall
be granted from the treasury; shall any duties or
taxes mportations from foreign nations be laid TO
promote foster branch of industry and al du-
ties, imposts and excises shall be UNIFORM throughout
the Confederate States:
2. To borrow money on the credit of the Confeder-
ate States:
g. Te regulate commerce with foreign nations and /
among several States and with the Indian tribes
but neither this, any other Eclause contain
ed in the constitution shall ever be construed TO dele
gate the power Congress to appropriate money Tor
any internal Improvement intended TO facilitate COM
merce; except for the purpose of furnishing hgnts,
the coasts and the Improvements OF iarbors and ene
Of distractions In river navigation, IN All
which cases. such duties shall be laid on the nayga-
tion facilitated thereby, may be necessary to pay
the cests and expenses thereof:
f. 10 establish uniform laws Of naturalization, and
uniform laws the subject Of bankruptcies, through
out the Confederate States, but law of Congress
discharge any debt contracted before the passage
Of the same:
s. To coin money. regulate the value thereof and Of
foreign coin, and fix the standard OF weights and
measures:
g. 10 provide for the punishment of counterfeiting
the securities and current coin OF the confederate
States:
T. To establish post Offices and post routes; but the
expenses of the Postoce Department, afer the first
dred and sxty-three shall be paid out Of its
s. To promote the progress Of science and useful
arts by securing limited times to authors and in
venors exclusive 10 their respective writings
and discoveries:
o. To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme