The rules of proceeding in each house are sub stantially 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, see Hind's Precedents of the H. of It.
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 hill, he signs it. If be 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 journal 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 objec tions, to the other house, by which it is likewise re considered, and, if approved by two-thirds of that house, it becomes a law. But in all such cases the votes of 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 (Sundays 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 re turn; in which case it shall not he a law. See Kent, Lect. XI.
The right of the president to sign a bill after an adjournment of congress although within ten days of its passage, has been inferentially approved by the supreme court on four different occasions, in connection with the captured and abandoned prop erty act, which was signed by the president on March 12, 1863, and after the adjournment of con gress ; Tobey v. Leonard, 2 Wall. (U. S.) 423, 17 L.
Ed. 842 ; U. S. v. Anderson, 9 Wall. (U. S.) 56, 19 L. Ed. 615 ; U. S. v. Klein, 13 Wall. (U. S.) 128, 20 L. Ed. 519. Upon this point the court of claims held that a bill signed by the president after the usual adjournment of congress for the winter holidays, but within ten days from the time when it was pre sented to him, was duly approved within the intent and meaning of the constitution; U. S. v. Alice Weil, 29 Ct. Cl. 523.
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 amendable by the senate in its discretion; Art. 1, s. 7.
One of the houses cannot adjourn, during the session of congress, for mare than three days with out the consent of the other ; nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sit ting ; Art. 1, e. 5.
All the legislative powers granted by the consti tution of the United States or necessarily Implied from those granted, are vested In the congress.