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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... Previous question .. 175 184 35 . Amendments .. 186 36 . Division of question ... . 190 37 . Co - existing questions 192 38 . Equivalent questions . 193 39 . The question 194 40 . Third reading 195 41 . Division of the House . 197 42 ...
... Previous question .. 175 184 35 . Amendments .. 186 36 . Division of question ... . 190 37 . Co - existing questions 192 38 . Equivalent questions . 193 39 . The question 194 40 . Third reading 195 41 . Division of the House . 197 42 ...
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... 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 , the House is resumed , and the chairman reports that the Committee of the ...
... 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 , the House is resumed , and the chairman reports that the Committee of the ...
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... previous question can be taken ; the only means to avoid an improper discussion is to move that the committee rise ; and if it be apprehended that the same discussion will be attempted on returning into committee , the House can ...
... previous question can be taken ; the only means to avoid an improper discussion is to move that the committee rise ; and if it be apprehended that the same discussion will be attempted on returning into committee , the House can ...
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... question which is the sub- ject of an order is made a privileged one , pro hac vice . The order is a repeal of the ... previous question . 2. To postpone indefi- nitely . 3. To adjourn a question to a definite day . 4. To lie on the ...
... question which is the sub- ject of an order is made a privileged one , pro hac vice . The order is a repeal of the ... previous question . 2. To postpone indefi- nitely . 3. To adjourn a question to a definite day . 4. To lie on the ...
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... question is before the Senate no motion shall be re- ceived , unless it be for the previous question , or to postpone , commit , or amend the main question , the term postponement must be understood according to their broad use of it ...
... question is before the Senate no motion shall be re- ceived , unless it be for the previous question , or to postpone , commit , or amend the main question , the term postponement must be understood according to their broad use of it ...
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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.