Constitution of the United States, Jefferson's Manual, the Rules of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-ninth Congress, and a Digest and Manual of the Rules and Practice of the House of Representatives of the United States: First Session, Fifty-ninth CongressU.S. Government Printing Office, 1905 - 715 pages |
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Page 132
... decided that " a convenient time was to be understood . " ( 1580 , ) 1 Hats .. 99 , 100. Nor is the law so strict in point of time as to require the party to set out immediately on his return , but allows him time to settle his private ...
... decided that " a convenient time was to be understood . " ( 1580 , ) 1 Hats .. 99 , 100. Nor is the law so strict in point of time as to require the party to set out immediately on his return , but allows him time to settle his private ...
Page 148
... decided in the House , without returning into committee . 3 Grey , 130 . No previous question can be put in a committee ; nor can this committee adjourn as others may ; but if their business is unfinished , they rise , on a question ...
... decided in the House , without returning into committee . 3 Grey , 130 . No previous question can be put in a committee ; nor can this committee adjourn as others may ; but if their business is unfinished , they rise , on a question ...
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... decided without debate . Orders of the day may be discharged at any time , and a new one made for a different day . 3 Grey , 48 , 313 . When a session is drawing to a close , and the important bills are all brought in , the House , in ...
... decided without debate . Orders of the day may be discharged at any time , and a new one made for a different day . 3 Grey , 48 , 313 . When a session is drawing to a close , and the important bills are all brought in , the House , in ...
Page 162
... decided , he is still to be heard through . A call for adjourn- ment , or for the order of the day , or for the question , by gentlemen from their seats , is not a motion . No motion can be made without rising and addressing the Chair ...
... decided , he is still to be heard through . A call for adjourn- ment , or for the order of the day , or for the question , by gentlemen from their seats , is not a motion . No motion can be made without rising and addressing the Chair ...
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... decided that the bill shall be committed , it may then be moved to be referred to Com- mittee of the Whole House , or to a special committee . If the latter , the Speaker proceeds to name the committee . Any member also may name a ...
... decided that the bill shall be committed , it may then be moved to be referred to Com- mittee of the Whole House , or to a special committee . If the latter , the Speaker proceeds to name the committee . Any member also may name a ...
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Popular passages
Page 117 - And if the house of representatives shall not choose a president whenever the right of choice shall devolve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the vice president shall act as president, as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the president.
Page 2 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled, as, when agreed to by them, and afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every state, will effectually provide for the same.
Page 122 - 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.
Page 22 - The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
Page 47 - States was proposed to the legislatures of the several States by the Fortieth Congress on the 27th of February, 1869, and was declared, in a proclamation of the Secretary of State, dated March 30, 1870, to have been ratified by the legislatures of twenty-nine of the thirty-seven States.
Page 21 - The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes ; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Page 4 - Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five,...
Page 6 - No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time ; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.
Page 284 - A motion to strike out the enacting words of a bill shall have precedence of a motion to amend, and, if carried, shall be considered equivalent to its rejection.
Page 160 - ... and all motions to proceed to the consideration of other business, shall be decided without debate. (b) All appeals from the decisions of the Chair relating to the application of the rules of the Senate or the House of Representatives, as the case may be, to the procedure relating to a resolution with respect to a reorganization plan shall be decided without debate.