The house of representatives has the exclusive right of originating bills for raising revenue ; and this is the only privilege that house enjoys in its legislative character which is not shared equally with the other ; and even those bills are amend able by the senate in its discretion. U. S. Cond. art. I. a. 7.
One of the houses cannot adjourn, during the ses sion of ()engross, for more than three days without -- — the consent of the other; nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting. U. S. Const. art. 1, e. 5.
6. All the legislative powers granted by the constitution of the United States are vested in the congress. These powers are enumerated in art. I, s. 8,•as follows : To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States, to borrow money on the credit of the United States, to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states and with the Indians, 1 McLean, C. C. 257 ; to establish a uniform rule of naturalization and uniform laws of bank ruptcy throughout the United States, to coin money, regulate the value thereof and of foreign 'coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures, to pro vide for the punishment of counterfeiting the secu rities and current coin of the United States, to establish post-offices and post-roads, to prombte the progress of science and neeful arts, by'securing for limited times to 'authors and inventors the 'exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries, to constitute tribunals inferior to the supreme court, to define and punish piracies and felonies on the high seas and offences against the laws of nations, to declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water, to raise and support armies, to provide and maintain a navy, to make rules for the government of the land and naval forces, to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions, to pro vide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively the ap pointment of the officers and the authority of train ing the Militia accord in g to the discipline prescribed by congress, to exercise exclusive legislatiota over such district as may in due form become the seat of government of the United States, and also over all forts, magazines, arsenals, dock-yards, and other needful buildings ceded and acquired for those purposes, to exercise exclusive legislation over the District of Columbia, and to make all laws neces sary and proper to give full efficacy to the powers contained in the constitution.
7. The rules of proceeding in each house are substantially the same : the house of representatives choose their own speaker ; the vice-president of the United States is, ex officio, president of the senate. For rules of proceeding and forms observed in pass ing laws, see Barclay's Dig., Washington, 1863.
S. When a bill is engrossed, and has received the sanction of both houses, it is sent to the president for his approbation. If he approves of the bill, he signs it. If he does not, it is returned, with his ob jections, to the house in which it originated, and that house enters the objections at large on its jour nal and proceeds to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of the house agree to pass the bill, it is sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by 'which it is likewise recon sidered, and, if approved by two-thirds of that house,it becomes a law. But in all such cases the votes oi both houses are determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill are to be entered on the journal of each house respectively.
If any bill shall not be returned by the president within ten days (Snndays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the congress by their adjournment prevent its return ; in which case it shall not be a law. See Kent, Comm. Leet. XI.