hall preside over the
Senate during the consideration of said articles and upon the trial
of the person impeached therein.
V. The Presiding Officer shall have power to make and issue, by himself
or by the Secretary of the Senate, all orders, mandates, writs, and
precepts authorized by these rules or by the Senate, and to make and
enforce such other regulations and orders in the premises as the Senate
may authorize or provide.
VI. The Senate shall have power to compel the attendance of witnesses,
to enforce obedience to its orders, mandates, writs, precepts, and
judgments, to preserve order, and to punish in a summary way contempts
of and disobedience to its authority, orders, mandates, writs, precepts,
or judgments, and to make all lawful orders, rules, and regulations
which it may deem essential or conducive to the ends of justice; and the
Sergeant-at-Arms, under the direction of the Senate, may employ such aid
and assistance as may be necessary to enforce, execute, and carry into
effect the lawful orders, mandates, writs, and precepts of the Senate.
VII. The Presiding Officer of the Senate shall direct all necessary
preparations in the Senate Chamber, and the presiding officer upon the
trial shall direct all the forms of proceeding while the Senate are
sitting for the purpose of trying an impeachment and all forms during
the trial not otherwise specially provided for. The presiding officer
may, in the first instance, submit to the Senate, without a division,
all questions of evidence and incidental questions; but the same shall,
on the demand of one-fifth of the members present, be decided by yeas
and nays.
VIII. Upon the presentation of articles of impeachment and the
organization of the Senate as hereinbefore provided, a writ of summons
shall issue to the accused, reciting said articles and notifying him to
appear before the Senate upon a day and at a place to be fixed by the
Senate, and named in such writ, and file his answer to said articles of
impeachment, and to stand to and abide the orders and judgments of the
Senate thereon, which writ shall be served by such officer or person as
shall be named in the precept thereof such number of days prior to the
day fixed for such appearance as shall be named in such precept, either
by the delivery of an attested copy thereof to the person accused or,
if that can not conveniently be done, by leaving such copy at the last
known place of abode of such person or at h
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