The Rules and Orders of the Senate and House of Representatives of the WASHINGTON CITY: PRINTED BY DAVIS & FORCE. PREFACE. THE Constituiton of the U.S. establishing a legislature for the Union under certain forms, authorises each branch of it to determine the rules of its own proceedings.' The Senate have accordingly formed some rules for its own government: but these going only to few cases, they have referred to the decision of their President, without debate and without appeal, all questions of order arising either under their own rules, or, where they have provided none. This places under the discretion of the President a very extensive field of decision, and one which irregularly exercised, would have a powerful effect on the procedings and determi |