Rules for Election of President.
The House proceeded to consider the report made on Friday last, from the committee appointed to prepare and report rules proper to be observed in the choice of a President of the United States: Whereupon,
Ordered, That the said report be committed to a Committee of the whole House immediately.
The House, accordingly, resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole on the said report; and, after some time spent therein, the Chairman reported that the committee had had the said report under consideration, and directed him to report to the House their agreement to the same, with an amendment; which he delivered in at the Clerk's table, where the same was read. The House then proceeded to consider the report: Whereupon, the amendment reported from the Committee of the whole House to the said report, was, on the question put thereupon, agreed to by the House.
A motion was then made and seconded that the House do disagree with the Committee of the whole House in their agreement to the fourth rule contained in the said report, in the words following, to wit:
"4th. After commencing the balloting for President, the House shall not adjourn until a choice is made:"
And, the question being taken thereupon, it passed in the negative—yeas 47, nays 53.
A motion was then made and seconded that the House do disagree with the Committee of the whole House in their agreement to the fifth rule contained in the said report, in the words following, to wit:
"5th. The doors of the House shall be closed during the balloting, except against the officers of the House:"
And, the question being taken thereupon, it passed in the negative—yeas 45, nays 54.