Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Barnard, of New York, on the Report and Resolutions of the Committee on Elections, Relative to the Elections by General Ticket in the Four Recusant States of New Hampshire, Georgia, Mississippi, and Missouri: Delivered in the House of Representatives of the U. S., Feb. 13, 1944 But what is the ground of the pretension set up in this case It is said. That the constitutional authority of Congress to pass the second section of the apportionment law is disputed; that if Congress had no such. Power the law 1s merely void and that the question whether it be a law or not, or, which is the same thing, whether Congress had author ity to pass it or not, is directly involved in the inquiry in which the House is now legitimately engaged - namely, an inquiry into the elections, returns, and qualifications of its own members. Of all this nratter, rt rs said, the House is to be the judge, by direct constitutional appointment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.