The power to determine the rules of its proceeding is exactly analogous to the powers given to Congress. Power is given to Congress to lay and collect taxes. duties. imposts. and excises. On that subject no Member has a constitutional privilege. we refer it to the Committee on Ways and Means. "To provide for the common defense." We do that by. referring all bills on that subject to the Naval Committee and the Committee on Military Affairs. "To borrow money on the credit of the United States." We refer all such questions to the Committee on Ways and Means. "To regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several States and with the Indian tribes." No such measure comes before the House until it is reported by the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. "To establish a uniform rule of naturalization." All bills on that subject go to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization. "To coin money. to regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin. and to fix the standard of weights and measures." Everybody knows that such subjects go to the Committee on Coinage. Weights. and Measures. "To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States." All such measures go to the Committee on the Judiciary. "To establish postoffices and postroads." Those measures go to the Committee on PostOffices and PostRoads. "To promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited time to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries." Those go to the Committee on Patents. "To constitute tribunals Inferior to the Supreme Court. " to the Committee on the Judiciary. Now. the power in Congress to do all these things does not give the right to any man to jump on the floor at any time and bring in a bill for consideration of Congress.
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