It has been urged, that the power of the Houſe terminates with their ſeſſion; ſince a priſoner committed by the Speaker’s warrant cannot be detained during the receſs. That power indeed ceaſes with the ſeſſion, which muſt operate by the agency of others, becauſe, when they do not ſit, they can employ no agent, having no longer any legal exiſtence; but that which is exerciſed on themſelves revives at their meeting, when the ſubject of that power ſtill ſubſiſts. They can in the next ſeſſion refuſe to re-admit him, whom in the former ſeſſion they expelled.
That expulſion inferred excluſion, in the preſent cafe, muſt be, I think, eaſily admitted. The expulſion and the writ iſſued for a new election were in the ſame ſeſſion, and ſince the Houſe is by the rule of Parliament bound for the ſeſſion by a vote once paſſed, the expelled member cannot be admitted. He that can-
