Senate Manual, Containing the Standing Rules and Orders of the United States Senate ...: Jefferson's Manual, EtcU.S. Government Printing Office, 1905 - 583 pages |
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... tion to proceed to consideration of .. The President shall have a seat on the right of the Chair when he shall meet the Senate for consideration of ... The Senate shall be cleared of all persons except the offi- cers in attendance ( who ...
... tion to proceed to consideration of .. The President shall have a seat on the right of the Chair when he shall meet the Senate for consideration of ... The Senate shall be cleared of all persons except the offi- cers in attendance ( who ...
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... tion on the same day without ..... Rule . Clause . Page . 5 I 7 19 I IS ..... A Senator when called to order shall sit down and shall not proceed without 19 4 18 No memorial or other paper , except original treaties , shall be withdrawn ...
... tion on the same day without ..... Rule . Clause . Page . 5 I 7 19 I IS ..... A Senator when called to order shall sit down and shall not proceed without 19 4 18 No memorial or other paper , except original treaties , shall be withdrawn ...
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... tion ; their order and precedence 22 19 A motion or resolution may be withdrawn or modified before a division , amendment , or ordering of the yeas and nays ... 21 2 19 A motion to reconsider shall not be withdrawn without leave of the ...
... tion ; their order and precedence 22 19 A motion or resolution may be withdrawn or modified before a division , amendment , or ordering of the yeas and nays ... 21 2 19 A motion to reconsider shall not be withdrawn without leave of the ...
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... tion on the same day without leave of the Senate , to be determined without debate . A motion to take up a subject shall not be open to debate on the merits of the subject proposed to be considered . Order , questions of . A question of ...
... tion on the same day without leave of the Senate , to be determined without debate . A motion to take up a subject shall not be open to debate on the merits of the subject proposed to be considered . Order , questions of . A question of ...
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... tion , unless there be objection ..... Plurality of votes . Select committees and the members of standing committees ( except the chairman ) shall be elected by a .. Postpone indefinitely . When a question is pending , a motion may be ...
... tion , unless there be objection ..... Plurality of votes . Select committees and the members of standing committees ( except the chairman ) shall be elected by a .. Postpone indefinitely . When a question is pending , a motion may be ...
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Page 419 - ... regulate the value thereof, nor ascertain the sums and expenses necessary for the defence and welfare of the United States, or any of them, nor emit bills, nor borrow money on the credit of the United States, nor appropriate money, nor agree upon the number of vessels of war to be built or purchased, or the number of land or sea forces to be raised, nor appoint a commander-in-chief of the army or navy, unless nine States assent to the same...
Page 415 - The united states in congress assembled shall also be the last resort on appeal in all disputes and differences now subsisting or that hereafter may arise between two or more states concerning boundary, jurisdiction or any other cause whatever ; which authority shall always be exercised in the manner following. Whenever the legislative or executive authority or lawful agent of any state in controversy with another shall present a petition to congress, stating the matter in question...
Page 420 - Congress assembled, by the consent of nine states, shall from time to time think expedient to vest them with; provided that no power be delegated to the said Committee, for the exercise of which, by the Articles of Confederation, the voice of nine states in the Congress of the United States assembled is requisite.
Page 412 - States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings, of the courts and magistrates of every other State. ARTICLE V. For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each State shall direct...
Page 184 - May next, to take into consideration the situation of the United 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...
Page 421 - Every state shall abide by the determinations of the united states in congress assembled, on all questions which by this confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state, and the union shall be perpetual...
Page 403 - He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislature. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts...
Page 432 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of...
Page 427 - The governor and judges, or a majority of them, shall adopt and publish in the district such laws of the original States, criminal and civil, as may be necessary and best suited to the circumstances of the district, and report them to Congress from time to time, which laws shall be in force in the district until the organization of the General Assembly therein, unless disapproved of by Congress; but afterwards, the legislature shall have authority to alter them as they shall think fit.
Page 420 - The committee of the states, or any nine of them, shall be authorized to execute, in the recess of congress, such of the powers of congress as the United States in congress assembled, by the consent of nine states, shall, from time to time, think expedient to vest them with...