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Questions, equivalent, what is considered..

Questions (coexisting) what suspends and what removes from the

House an existing question...

how determined by ayes and noes.

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to be resumed in statu quo when suspended by the want

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how the attendance of, may be compelled.

any member may call for a count for the purpose of ascer-
taining.....

not present suspends the question.

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82, 97

82, 134

R.

Randall and Whitney, reference to case, breach of privilege...
Reading of papers, question on, first put..

a speech is not a right without leave..

a report of one House not of right in the other
House..

Recede, question discussed.

on amendments between the Houses the question shall be:
Ist, to agree; 2d, disagree; 3d, recede; 4th, insist; 5th,
adhere

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one House adhering, the other must recede or adhere also.
the House can not recede from its own amendment with an
amendment..

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Recommitment, amendments made in quasi-committee fall on... 105, 107 Reconsideration of bills, orders, instructions, etc.

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Remonstrance and petition, distinction...

Report of committee, how to proceed in House.

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106

Report of one House not to be read in the other if objected to...
Representatives, apportionment of, from 1789 to 1900.

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Resolutions, facts, principles, and opinions may be expressed in. 100

money may be paid by.

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Resolutions, when to be presented for approval...

Reviling, nipping, or unmannerly words not to be used in debate.
Riders, engrossed bills may be amended by.
Rules, an adherence to, importance of..

Rules and orders of each House, to what cases they shall apply..

the execution of a subsisting
order may be insisted on.............

all orders determine with the
session

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S.

Sections of bills may be numbered by Clerk.

Senate, of whom composed and how classed .

the Vice-President to be the President of the.
shall choose their officers, etc..

power of, in relation to rules and the conduct of members.
equal division to be determined by the vote of the Vice-
President... ..

adjournment of. (See Adjournment).

session of, what constitutes.

Session, what constitutes......

Speaker, the House shall choose their.

absence of, from sickness, another chosen

violates order by not putting question..

Clerk puts question before election of

may be removed at will of the House

not to speak unless to order, and to be first heard..
reads sitting, rises to put question...

can not refuse an amendment, inconsistent.

to decide point of order that arises in putting question
peremptorily, and may ask advice of old members...

Special orders. (See Orders).

Speech can not be read of right, a written.

Strike out, paragraph may be perfected before question to.
Strike out and insert, discussed ...

Sum, largest, first put in filling blanks.

T.

Tellers to count on division of the House.

their errors rectified.

Time, longest, first put in filling blanks

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97, III

ΠΙΟ

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Title to be on the back of the bill when engrossed

when to be amended..............

Transposing of sections, rule respecting

Treason, mode of proceeding on charge of.

Treaties may be made by the President and Senate. are legislative acts

extent of the power to make

may be rescinded by an act of the legislature.
papers to be communicated with.

ratified by nominal call

proceedings upon

V.

Vote, a member can not vote till sworn..

every member must..

must not vote if not present
change of

W.

Warm words or quarrel, adjustment of..

Whitney and Randall bribery case, reference to.

Withdraw, members can not, when question is putting.

Withdraw motions, rule of Parliament..

Witnesses, how summoned, examined, etc.

Y.

Yeas and nays may be required by one-fifth.. to be taken alphabetically

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RULES OF PROCEDURE AND PRACTICE IN THE SENATE

WHEN SITTING ON IMPEACHMENT TRIALS.*

I. Whensoever the Senate shall receive notice from the House of Representatives that managers are appointed on their part to conduct an impeachment against any person and are directed to carry articles of impeachment to the Senate, the Secretary of the Senate shall immediately inform the House of Representatives that the Senate is ready to receive the managers for the purpose of exhibiting such articles of impeachment, agreeably to such notice.

II. When the managers of an impeachment shall be introduced at the bar of the Senate and shall signify that they are ready to exhibit articles of impeachment against any person, the Presiding Officer of the Senate shall direct the Sergeant-atArms to make proclamation, who shall, after making proclamation, repeat the following words, viz: "All persons are commanded to keep silence, on pain of imprisonment, while the House of Representatives is exhibiting to the Senate of the United States articles of impeachment against

-;" after which the articles shall be exhibited, and then the Presiding Officer of the Senate shall inform the managers that the Senate will take proper order on the subject of the impeachment, of which due notice shall be given to the House of Representatives.

*See also Jefferson's Manual, Sec. LIII.

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