[702] [702.1] material that there should be a rule to go by, than what that rule is; that there may be a uniformity of proceeding in business not subject to the caprice of the Speaker or captiousness of the members. It is very material that order, decency, and regularity be preserved in a dignified public body. 2 Hats., 149. SEC. II. LEGISLATURE All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. Constitution of the United States, Art. I, sec. 1. [702.2] The Senators and Representatives shall receive a compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States. Constitution of the United States, Art. I, sec. 6. [702.3] [703] [703.1] For the powers of Congress, see the following articles and sections of the Constitution of the United States: I, 4, 7, 8, 9; II, 1, 2; III, 3; IV, 1, 3, 5, and all the amendments. SEC. III. PRIVILEGE The privileges of members of Parliament, from small and obscure beginnings, have been advancing for centuries with a firm and never-yielding pace. Claims seem to have been brought forward from time to time, and repeated, till some example of their admission enabled them to build law on that example. We can only, therefore, state the points of progression at which they now are. It is now acknowledged: 1. That they are at all times exempted from question elsewhere, for anything said in their own House; that during the time of privilege. 2. Neither a member himself, his ' wife, nor his servants (familiares sui), for any matter of their own, may be 2 arrested on mesne process in any civil 1 Order of the House of Commons, 1663, July 16. time bang hat bar bguy and moegendence are pre- It was probably from the new of the memang tante (RN of prolege that the framers of our Consumative in ther care to provate that the laws still bod equally £ especially that those who make them shall not exempt themselves from their opersico, bare voly poniend Senstors and Representatives themselves from the single act of arrest in all cases except treasco. felley, and breach of the peare, during their attendance at the sessive of their respective Houses, and in gong to and returning from the same, and from being questioned in any other place for any speech or debate in either Horse. Constitution United Stas. Art. 1. we 6. Under the general authority to make all laws necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers given them Constitution United States. Art. I. sec. S. ther may provide by law the details which may be necessary for giving full effect to the enjoyment of this privilege. No such |