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Page 629 - JOINT RULES. AND ORDERS OF THE TWO HOUSES. 1. In every case of an amendment of a bill agreed to in one house, and dissented to in the other, if either house shall request a conference, and appoint a committee...
Page 694 - And excepting also that in any such case as is hereinbefore made final in the circuit court of appeals it shall be competent for the Supreme Court to require, by certiorari or otherwise, any such case to be certified to the Supreme Court for its review and determination with the same power and authority in the case as if it had been carried by appeal or writ of error to the Supreme Court.
Page 47 - Shall the main question be now put?" and until it is decided shall preclude all amendment or debate. When, on taking the previous question, the House shall decide that the main question shall not now be put, the main question shall be considered as still remaining under debate. The main question...
Page 216 - Representatives having been severally read, showing the names of the persons voted for, and the number of votes received in each House by each person, it...
Page 515 - Before entering upon the duties of his office, each commissioner shall take and subscribe the...
Page 46 - 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...
Page 47 - 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; but no motion for the reconsideration of any vote shall be in order after a bill, resolution, message, report, amendment, or motion upon which the vote was taken shall have gone out of the possession of the Senate...
Page 47 - ... strike out and insert, it shall not be in order to move for a division of the question: but the rejection of a motion to strike out and insert...
Page 185 - Congress to adopt an amendment to the Constitution of the United States providing for the election of United States Senators...
Page 552 - State is hereby instructed to transmit a copy of these resolutions to the President of the United States...

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