Q. When shall the Lieutenant-Governor not act as a member of this
court?
A. When the Governor is being tried. He may be presumed to be an
interested party, for if the Governor should be found guilty and
be removed, the Lieutenant-Governor becomes Governor.
Q. What penalty can be inflicted by this court?
A. Removal from office, or removal from office and
disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust or
profit, under this state.
Q. Can such parties be further punished?
A. Yes; they may be indicted, tried and punished according to law,
by fine or imprisonment, or both, according to the nature of the
crime.
VOTING.
Q Who are entitled to vote upon all questions in the Legislature?
A. All the members in the Assembly and Senate; and this includes
the Speaker of the Assembly.
Q, When is the President of the Senate entitled to vote?
A. Upon questions on which the Senate is equally divided or tied.
Q. Why should not the President of the Senate have a vote upon all
questions?
A. Because he has not been elected a member of that body; but
becomes its presiding officer by virtue of the constitutional
provision which makes the Lieutenant-Governor its president.
KINDS OF VOTING.
Q. Name some of the kinds of voting practiced. I. By showing
hands.
II. By Acclamation.
III. By dividing or separating the persons voting into two bodies.
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