ouse, and members may have nd distributed. sentatives rarely has a secret sesill keeps its executive sessions g see page 344. provision is to make members or the record is preserved. It number necessary to secure the n is intended to protect the them to impose responsibility open to abuse. It is sometimes delay unnecessarily the proper . (For a graphic account of ong the Law Makers, 165–173.) -Adjournment. g the session of congress, shall he other, adjourn for more than ther place than that in which the g. provision is evident. ess may end in any one of three resentatives may end. agree to adjourn. 4 sation for the services,1 to be ascertained by lo out of the treasury of the United States.3 all cases except treason, felony, and breach be privileged from arrest during their atte session of their respective houses, and in returning from the same; and for any speed either house, they shall not be questioned place. .5 1See discussion in connection with stat p. 85. 2 The salary of congressmen is, theref themselves, subject only to the approval dent. It is now $5000 a year, and m speaker receives $8000 a year and mileage dent pro tempore of the Senate receives th serving as president of the Senate. They are serving the United States. *Defined on pages 158 and 211. 5 So that their constituents may not for sinister reasons be deprived of representat "That is, he cannot be sued for slander justice, but he can be checked by his ho sary, and the offensive matter omitted from The purpose of this provision is not to s in speaking ill of persons who do not dese but to protect right-minded members - υουυυυω αιωνιος ωιιο οιωνιων 'uments whereof shall have been me;1 and no person holding any tates shall be a member of either ince in office.2 of this provision is to remove ress the temptation to create es for their own benefit, or to reason the salaries of offices is designed also to secure conice on the part of the president. provision has, however, been "As there is a degree of deich requires a certain degree of ust, so there are other qualities a justify a certain portion of Republican government preof these qualities in a higher It might well be deemed harsh dual from any office, clearly ncies of the country, simply s duty. The chances * * * ment to a new office are not so s to bewilder many minds; and tions from duty are so easily y, if ever, escape the public luence is to be exerted by the C Se lon the |