The power of each house to determine the rules of its proceedings, to punish its members for disorderly behavior, and to expel with the concurrence of two thirds, was agreed to with general assent.[193] Each house was also directed to keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time to publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and one fifth of the members present in either house were empowered to require the yeas and nays to be entered on its journal.[194] The report of the committee of detail had made no provision for such an officer as the Vice-President of the United States, and had therefore declared that the Senate, as well as the House, should choose its own presiding officer. This feature of their report received the sanction of the Convention; but subsequently, when it became necessary to create an officer to succeed the President of the United States, in case of death, resignation, or removal from office, the plan was adopted of making the former _ex officio_ the presiding officer of the Senate, giving him a vote only in cases where the votes of the members are equally divided.[195] To this was added the further provision, that the Senate shall choose, besides all its other officers, a President _pro tempore_, in the absence of the Vice-President, or when he shall exercise the office of President of the United States.[196] The House of Representatives were empowered to choose their own Speaker, and other officers, as originally proposed.[197]