bered alphabetical list shall correspond with the number on the ball shall advance and choose his seat for the term for which he is elected. cated before the 2. Before said drawing shall commence each seat Seats to be vashall be vacated and so remain until selected under drawing. this rule, and any seat having been selected shall be deemed forfeited if left unoccupied before the call of the roll is finished, and whenever the seats of Members and Delegates shall have been drawn, no proposition for a second drawing shall be in order during that Congress. RULE XXXIII. HALL OF THE HOUSE. Use of the Hall The Hall of the House shall be used only for the of the House. legislative business of the House, and for the caucus meetings of its members, except upon occasions where the House by resolution agree to take part in any ceremonies to be observed therein; and the Speaker shall not entertain a motion for the suspension of this rule. RULE XXXIV. OF ADMISSION TO THE FLOOR. Who admitted The persons hereinafter named, and none other, to the floor of the shall be admitted to the Hall of the House, or House. rooms leading thereto, viz: The President and Vice-President of the United States and their pri vate secretaries, judges of the Supreme Court, members of Congress and members-elect, contestants in election cases during the pendency of their cases in the House, the Secretary and Sergeant-atArms of the Senate, heads of Departments, foreign ministers, governors of States, the Architect of the Capitol, the Librarian of Congress and his assistant in charge of the Law Library, such persons as have, by name, received the thanks of Congress, ex ed. members of the House of Representatives who are not interested in any claim or bill pending before Congress, and clerks of committees, when business from their committee is under consideration; and it shall not be in order for the Speaker to entertain a request for the suspension of this rule or to present from the chair the request of any member for unanimous consent. RULE XXXV. OF ADMISSION TO THE GALLERIES. Admission to The Speaker shall set aside a portion of the west reserved galleries; how obtain gallery for the use of the President of the United States, the members of his Cabinet, justices of the Supreme Court, foreign ministers and suites, and the members of their respective families, and shall also set aside another portion of the same gallery for the accommodation of persons to be admitted on the card of members. The southerly half of the east gallery shall be assigned exclusively for the use of the families of members of Congress, in which the Speaker shall control one bench, and on request of a member the Speaker shall issue a card of admission to his family, which shall include their visitors, and no other person shall be admit ted to this section. Official report ers; appointinent RULE XXXVI. OFFICIAL AND OTHER REPORTERS. 1. The appointment and removal, for cause, of and removal of, the official reporters of the House, including stenogby Speaker. raphers of committees, and the manner of the execution of their duties, shall be vested in the Speaker. Press reporters; admission of to 2. Stenographers and reporters, other than the floor and report official reporters of the House, wishing to take ers' gallery. down the debates and proceedings, may be admit ted by the Speaker to the reporters' gallery over the Speaker's chair, under such regulations as he may, from time to time, prescribe; and he may as sign seats on the floor to a representative of both the Associated and the United Press associations, and may admit to the privileges of the floor an assistant to each of such representatives. RULE XXXVII. PAY OF WITNESSES. The rule for paying witnesses subpoenaed to ap pear before the House, or either of its committees, shall be as follows: For each day a witness shall attend, the sum of two dollars; for each mile he shall travel in coming to or going from the place of examination, the sum of five cents each way; but nothing shall be paid for traveling when the witness has been summoned at the place of trial. RULE XXXVIII. PAPERS. Witness fees and mileage. Clerks of com mittees must de liver papers to Clerk of the adjournment of 1. The clerks of the several committees of the House shall, within three days after the final adjournment of a Congress, deliver to the Clerk of House at final the House all bills, joint resolutions, petitions, and Congress. other papers referred to the committee, together with all evidence taken by such committee under the order of the House during the said Congress, and not reported to the House; and in the event of the failure or neglect of any clerk of a committee to comply with this rule, the Clerk of the House shall, within three days thereafter, take into his keeping all such papers and testimony. withdrawn from the files. RULE XXXIX. WITHDRAWAL OF PAPERS. Papers, how No memorial or other paper presented to the House shall be withdrawn from its files without its leave, and if withdrawn therefrom, certified copies thereof shall be left in the office of the Clerk; but when an act may pass for the settleWhen Clerk ment of a claim, the Clerk is authorized to transmay loan papers to Department mit to the officer charged with the settlement thereof the papers on file in his office relating to such claim, or may loan temporarily to any officer or Bureau of the Executive Departments any papers on file in his office relating to any matter pending before such officer or Bureau, taking proper receipt therefor. officers. RULE XL. On ballot, maJority required to elect. BALLOT. In all other cases of ballot than for committees, a majority of the votes given shall be necessary to an election, and where there shall not be such a majority on the first ballot, the ballots shall be repeated until a majority be obtained; and in all balloting blanks shall be rejected and not taken into the count in enumeration of votes or reported by the tellers. Passage and ap proval of bills en and in Record. RULE XLI. MESSAGES. Messages received from the Senate and the Pres tered in Journal ident of the United States, giving notice of bills passed or approved, shall be entered in the Journal and published in the Record of that day's proceedings. RULE XLII. EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS. communications dressed to the Estimates of appropriations, and all other com- All Executive munications from the Executive Departments, in- shall be adtended for the consideration of any committees of Speaker. the House, shall be addressed to the Speaker, and by him submitted to the House for reference. RULE XLIII. QUALIFICATIONS OF OFFICERS AND EMPLOYÉS. Officers and employés shall claims against No person shall be an officer of the House, or continue in its employment, who shall be an agent for not be agents in the prosecution of any claim against the Govern- the Government. ment, or be interested in such claim otherwise than as an original claimant; and it shall be the duty of the Committee on Accounts to inquire into and report to the House any violation of this rule. RULE XLIV. JEFFERSON'S MANUAL. Manual to gov The rules of parliamentary practice comprised Jefferson's in Jefferson's Manual shall govern the House in ern procedure of House, when not all cases to which they are applicable and in which inconsistent with standing they are not inconsistent with the standing rules rules. and orders of the House and joint rules of the Senate and House of Representatives. RULE XLV. RULES OF THE HOUSE. prevail in suc These rules shall be the rules of the House of These rules to Representatives of the present and succeeding ceeding Con Congresses unless otherwise ordered. gresses. |