A Manual of Parliamentary Practice: Composed Originally for the Use of the Senate of the United StatesMaynard & Merrill, 1840 - 195 páginas |
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... when no question is before the House . Such are original motions , and reports an bills . Such are , bills from the other House , which are received a all times , and receive their first reading as soon 86 ARRANGEMENT OF BUSINESS .
... when no question is before the House . Such are original motions , and reports an bills . Such are , bills from the other House , which are received a all times , and receive their first reading as soon 86 ARRANGEMENT OF BUSINESS .
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... original remained in it , a motion was made to prefix a preamble , which , having an aspect very different from the resolution , the mover intimated that he should afterwards propose a correspondent amendment in the body of the reso ...
... original remained in it , a motion was made to prefix a preamble , which , having an aspect very different from the resolution , the mover intimated that he should afterwards propose a correspondent amendment in the body of the reso ...
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... original or main question ; but now let us suppose one of them to be moved , not on the original primary question , but on the secondary one , e . g . Suppose a motion to postpone , commit , or amend the main question , and that it ...
... original or main question ; but now let us suppose one of them to be moved , not on the original primary question , but on the secondary one , e . g . Suppose a motion to postpone , commit , or amend the main question , and that it ...
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... original , if at all ; because the 8th rule of the Senate says , that when a main question is before the House , no motion shall be received but to commit , amend , or pre - question the original question ; which is the Par- liamentary ...
... original , if at all ; because the 8th rule of the Senate says , that when a main question is before the House , no motion shall be received but to commit , amend , or pre - question the original question ; which is the Par- liamentary ...
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... original question . He acknowledges , too , that the practice has been to admit previous amendment , and only cites a few late instances to the contrary . On the whole , I should think it best to decide it ab inconvenienti ; to wit ...
... original question . He acknowledges , too , that the practice has been to admit previous amendment , and only cites a few late instances to the contrary . On the whole , I should think it best to decide it ab inconvenienti ; to wit ...
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Página 141 - If any member, in speaking or otherwise, transgress the rules of the house, the speaker shall, or any member may, call to order, in which case the member so called to order .shall immediately sit down, unless permitted to explain; and the house shall, if appealed to, decide the ease.
Página 161 - The rules of parliamentary practice, comprised in Jefferson's Manual, shall govern the House in all cases to which they are applicable, and in which they are not inconsistent with the standing rules and orders of the House, and joint rules of the Senate and House of Representatives.
Página 141 - When any member is about to speak in debate, or deliver any matter to the House, he shall rise from his seat, and respectfully address himself to "Mr. Speaker," and shall confine himself to the question under debate, and avoid personality.
Página 124 - RECONSIDERATION. [When a question has been once made and carried in the affirmative or negative, It shall be in order for any member of the majority to move for the reconsideration thereof...
Página 125 - EVERY bill shall receive three readings previous to its being passed ; and the President shall give notice at each, whether it be the first, second, or third ; which readings shall be on three different days, unless the Senate unanimously direct otherwise...
Página 161 - No standing rule or order of the House shall be rescinded or changed without one day's notice being given of the motion therefor. Nor shall any rule be suspended, except by a vote of at least twothirds of the members present.
Página 14 - ... the only weapons by which the minority can defend themselves against similar attempts from those in power, are the forms and rules of proceeding which have been adopted as they were found necessary, from time to time, and are become the law of the House ; by a strict adherence to which, the weaker party can only be protected from those irregularities and abuses which these forms were intended to check, and which the wantonness of power is but too often apt to suggest to large and successful majorities.
Página 81 - House having, on the question, retained the two first divisions, the words "any alien merchant" may be struck out, and their modifying words will then attach themselves to the preceding description of persons, and become a modification of that description. When a question is divided, after the question on the...
Página 64 - When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, to lie on the table, for the previous question, to postpone to a day certain, to commit or amend, to postpone indefinitely ; which several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they are arranged...
Página 63 - The delay and interruption which this might be made to produce evince the impossibility of the existence of such a right. There is, indeed, so manifest a propriety of permitting every member to have as much information as possible on every question on which he is to vote that when he desires the reading, if it be seen that it is really for information and not for delay, the Speaker directs it to be read without putting a question, if no one objects; but if objected to a question must be put.