Rules of Order Once Something Has Been Ammended
Fine art. VI. Some Main and Unclassified Motions.
Come across xv for a list of these motions.
35. To Take from the Tabular array takes precedence of no pending question, just has the right of way in preference to main motions if made during the session in which it was laid on the table while no question is actually awaiting, and at a time when business of this class, or unfinished business, or new business, is in lodge; and besides during the next session in societies having regular concern meetings as often equally quarterly. It yields to privileged [14] and incidental [13] motions, only not to subsidiary [12] ones. Information technology is undebatable, and no subsidiary movement can be applied to it. It is not in order unless some business has been transacted since the question was laid on the table, nor tin can it be renewed until some business has been transacted since information technology was lost The movement to take from the tabular array cannot be reconsidered, as it can be renewed repeatedly if lost, and, if carried, the question can be again laid on the table later on progress in debate or business.
In ordinary deliberative assemblies, a question is supposed to exist laid on the table just temporarily with the expectation of its consideration being resumed later the disposal of the interrupting question, or at a more convenient season.one As soon as the question that was introduced when the first question was laid on the table, is disposed of, whatever one may move to take this first question from the table. When he rises to make the motion, if the chair recognizes some ane else as having kickoff risen, he should at one time say that he rises to move to take a question from the table. The chair and then assigns him the floor if the other member has risen to make a main motion. If the new main motion has been stated by the chair earlier he claims the flooring, he must wait until that question is tending of before his motion volition be in club. When taken up, the question with everything adhering to information technology is before the associates exactly equally when information technology was laid on the table. Thus, if a resolution has amendments and a motion to commit awaiting at the time information technology was laid on the table, when information technology is taken from the table the question is get-go on the motion to commit. If a motion to postpone to a certain time is pending when the question is laid on the table, and information technology is taken from the table after that time, then the motility to postpone is ignored when the question is taken up. If the question is taken up on the day information technology was laid on the table, members who accept exhausted their right of fence cannot once more speak on the question. Only if taken up on another day, no notice is taken of speeches previously made. The previous question is not wearied if the question upon which it was ordered is taken from the tabular array at the aforementioned session, fifty-fifty though it is on some other twenty-four hour period.
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i. See foot note of 28. For the Congressional do. As stated at that place, Congress has abandoned the ordinary parliamentary employ of the motion to lay on the table and has converted it into a motion to enable the bulk to kill a measure instantly. Therefore Congressional exercise in regard to laying on, or taking from, the table is of no authority in assemblies using these motions in the common parliamentary law sense.
36. Reconsider.1 This motion is peculiar in that the making of the motion has a higher rank than its consideration, and for a certain time prevents anything being washed as the result of the vote information technology is proposed to reconsider. It tin be fabricated only on the day the vote to be reconsidered was taken, or on the next succeeding day, a legal holiday or a recess non being counted equally a day. It must be made by one who voted with the prevailing side. Whatsoever member may second it. It tin can be fabricated while whatsoever other question is awaiting, even if another fellow member has the floor, or afterwards it has been voted to adjourn, provided the chair has not declared the assembly adjourned. Information technology may be made subsequently the previous question has been ordered, in which case it and the motion to exist reconsidered are undebatable.
While the making of the motion to reconsider has such high privilege, its consideration has only the rank of the motion to be reconsidered, though information technology has the right of way in preference to whatsoever new motion of equal rank, as illustrated further on; and the reconsideration of a vote disposing of a primary question either temporarily or permanently may exist called up, when no question is pending, fifty-fifty though the general orders are existence carried out. The motility to reconsider cannot be amended, postponed indefinitely, or committed. If the afterthought is laid on the table or postponed definitely, the question to be reconsidered and all adhering questions go with information technology.two The previous question and the motions limiting or extending the limits of debate may exist practical to information technology when information technology is debatable. It is undebatable only when the motion to exist reconsidered is undebatable. When debatable it opens to debate the merits of the question to exist reconsidered. It cannot be withdrawn after information technology is besides late to renew the motion. If the motion to reconsider is lost it cannot be repeated except by general consent. No question can be twice reconsidered unless information technology was materially amended afterwards its first reconsideration. A reconsideration requires just a majority vote, regardless of the vote necessary to adopt the motion reconsidered.
The motion to reconsider cannot be applied to a vote on a motility that may be renewed within a reasonable time; or when practically the aforementioned outcome may be attained by another parliamentary motion; or when the vote has been partially executed (except in example of the motility to limit argue), or something has been done as the result of the vote that the assembly cannot disengage; or to an affirmative vote in the nature of a contract, when the other party to the contract has been notified of the vote; or to a vote on the motion to reconsider. In accord with these principles, votes on the post-obit motions cannot exist reconsidered: Adjourn; Take a Recess; Lay on the Table; Have from the Table; Suspend the Rules or Gild of Business; and Reconsider. Affirmative votes on the post-obit cannot be reconsidered: Proceed to the Orders of the Day; Adopt, or later they are adopted, to Ameliorate, or Repeal, or Rescind, the Constitution, By-laws, or Rules of Club or any other rules that require previous notice for their amendment; Elect to membership or role if the member or officeholder is present and does not decline, or if absent-minded and has learned of his election in the usual way and has not declined; to Reopen Nominations. A negative vote on the motion to Postpone Indefinitely cannot be reconsidered as practically the aforementioned question comes up again when the vote is taken on the main question. Later a committee has taken upwards the matter referred to it, it is besides tardily to reconsider the vote committing it, though the committee may exist discharged. But after contend has proceeded under an order limiting or extending the limits of contend, the vote making that club may exist reconsidered, as the debate may develop facts that arrive desirable to return to the regular rules of debate. The minutes, or record of proceedings, may be corrected at any time without reconsidering the vote approval them.
If the main question is pending and information technology is moved to reconsider the vote on whatsoever subsidiary [12], incidental [13], or privileged [14] motion, the chair states the question on the afterthought the moment the movement to be reconsidered is in order if information technology were made then for the kickoff time. Thus, if, while the motions to commit, for the previous question, and to lay on the table are pending, it is moved to reconsider a negative vote on postponing to a sure time, the chair proceeds to have the vote on laying on the table and, if that is lost, next on the previous question, and then on reconsidering the vote on the postponement, and if that is adopted, so on the postponement, and if that is lost, then on to commit. If the movement to lay on the table had been carried, then when the question was taken from the tabular array the same method of procedure would be followed; that is, the question would be outset on ordering the previous question, and next on reconsidering the vote on the postponement, etc. If the afterthought of an subpoena of the first caste is moved while some other subpoena of the same degree is pending, the awaiting amendment is start disposed of and then the chair announces the question on the reconsideration of the subpoena. If the reconsideration of an subpoena to an immediately pending question is moved the chair at one time announces the question on the reconsideration.
If the afterthought is moved while another subject is before the assembly, it cannot interrupt the pending concern, simply, as presently as that has been disposed of, if chosen up it has the preference over all other chief motions and general orders. In such a case the chair does not country the question on the afterthought until information technology is chosen up.
If the move to reconsider is made at a time when the afterthought could be called up if information technology had been previously made, the chair at once states the question on the reconsideration, unless the mover adds to his motion the words, "and have it entered on the minutes," as explained further on.
If, subsequently the vote has been taken on the adoption of a main motion, it is desired to consider the vote on an amendment, information technology is necessary to reconsider the vote on the main question also, and one move should be made to cover both votes. The same principle applies in case of an amendment to an subpoena, whether the vote has been taken on the resolution, or only on the subpoena of the get-go degree. When the motion covers the afterthought of two or iii votes, the debate is limited to the question that was offset voted on. Thus, if the move is to reconsider the votes on a resolution and amendments of the kickoff and second degree, the debate is limited to the amendment of the second degree. If the motility to reconsider is adopted the chair states the question on the subpoena of the second degree and recognizes the mover of the reconsideration as entitled to the floor. The question is at present in exactly the same status information technology was in just previous to taking the original vote on that subpoena.
The Forms of making this motion are as follows: "I move to reconsider the vote on the resolution relating to a banquet." "I move to reconsider the vote on the amendment to strike out 'Wednesday' and insert 'Thursday.'" [This form is used when the resolution is still pending.] "I move to reconsider the votes on the resolution relating to a banquet and on the amendment to strike out 'Wednesday' and insert 'Th'" [This course is used when the vote has been taken on the resolution, and it is desired to reconsider the vote on an amendment.] When the movement to reconsider is made the chair states the question, if information technology can then exist considered, and proceeds as with any other question. If it cannot be considered at that time, he says, "Mr. A moves to reconsider the vote on.... The secretary volition brand a note of it," and proceeds with the awaiting business concern. The afterthought, after being moved, is brought earlier the associates for action as explained in the previous paragraph. If it is called up past a fellow member, he simply says, subsequently obtaining the floor, "I call back the motion to reconsider the vote on ..." This call requires no second or vote. If the phone call is in society, as previously explained, the chair says, "The motility to reconsider the vote [or votes] on ... is chosen upward. The question is, 'Will the assembly reconsider the vote [or votes] on ...? Are you ready for the question?'" If the reconsideration is one that the chair states the question on every bit soon as information technology tin exist considered (as when it is moved to reconsider an subpoena while some other amendment is awaiting), equally soon every bit the proper time arrives the chair states the question on the reconsideration the same as if the motion to reconsider were made at this time.
When the debate, if at that place is any, is finished, he puts the question thus: "As many as are in favor of reconsidering the vote on the resolution relating to a banquet, say aye; those opposed say no. The ayes have it and the vote on the resolution is reconsidered. The question is now on the resolution, which is," etc. Or, the question may exist put thus: "The question is, Will the assembly reconsider the votes on the resolution relating to a feast, and on the subpoena to strike out 'Wednesday' and insert 'Thursday?' As many as are in favor of the afterthought say aye; those opposed say no. The ayes have it and the votes on the resolution and the amendment are reconsidered. The question is now on the amendment, which is," etc. If the motion to reconsider is adopted the business organization is in exactly the aforementioned condition information technology was in before taking the vote, or the votes, that have been reconsidered, and the chair instantly states the question on the immediately pending question, which is then open to debate and subpoena as before.
The Event of Making this motion is to suspend all activeness that the original motion would take required until the afterthought is acted upon; but if information technology is not called up, this result terminates with the session3 [63], except in an associates having regular meetings every bit oft as quarterly, when, if not chosen up, its effect does not terminate till the close of the next regular session. As long equally its issue lasts, any 1 at an adjourned, or a special, or a regular meeting, may call back the motion to reconsider and have information technology acted upon, though it is non usual for whatsoever 1 but the mover to call it upwards on the solar day it is made if the session lasts beyond that twenty-four hour period and there is no need of prompt action.
The Effect of the Adoption of this motion is to place before the associates the original question in the exact position it occupied before information technology was voted upon; consequently no ane, afterwards the afterthought is adopted, can argue the question reconsidered who had on that day wearied his correct of debate on that question; his only recourse is to discuss the question while the motion to reconsider is before the assembly. If the question is non reconsidered until a afterward mean solar day than that on which the vote to be reconsidered was taken, then it is open up to costless debate regardless of speeches fabricated previously. When a vote taken under the operation of the previous question is reconsidered, the question is then divested of the previous question, and is open to fence and amendment, provided the previous question had been exhausted by votes taken on all the questions covered by it, before the motion to reconsider was fabricated.
In standing and special committees a vote may be reconsidered regardless of the fourth dimension elapsed since the vote was taken, provided the movement is made by i who did not vote with the losing side, and that all members who voted with the prevailing side are present, or have received due notice that the reconsideration would be moved at this meeting. A vote cannot be reconsidered in committee of the whole.
Reconsider and Take Entered on the Minutes.iv The motion to reconsider, every bit previously explained in this section, provides ways for correcting, at least on the day on which it occurred, errors due to hasty action. By using the same motion and having it entered on the minutes so that it cannot be called upwardly until some other day, a means is provided for preventing a temporary majority from taking activity that is opposed by the majority of the society. This is needed in big societies with frequent meetings and modest quorums, the omnipresence in many cases non exceeding ten per cent of the membership. It enables a society with a small quorum to protect itself from injudicious action by temporary majorities, without requiring previous notice of main motions and amendments every bit is done in the English language Parliament. To accomplish this, withal, it is necessary to allow this form of the motion to be applied to a vote finally disposing of a main move, regardless of the fact that the motility to reconsider has already been fabricated. Otherwise it would be useless, as it would generally be forestalled past the motion to reconsider, in its simple form, which would be voted down, and then this motion could not be fabricated. As this form of the motion is designed but to be used when the meeting is an unrepresentative ane, this fact should be very apparent, and some members of the temporary minority should vote with the temporary majority on adopting or postponing indefinitely a principal motion of importance, when they call up the action is in opposition to the wishes of the neat majority of the society. Ane of them should so movement "to reconsider the vote on the resolution [or motion] and have information technology [or, asking that it be] entered on the minutes," which has the effect of suspending all activeness required past the vote it is proposed to reconsider, as previously explained, and thus gives time to notify absent members of the proposed action. If no member of the temporary minority voted with the majority, and it is too tardily for whatever one to change his vote and then as to move to reconsider, then some one should give detect of a motion to rescind the objectionable vote at the next meeting, which may be done by a majority vote afterward this notice has been given.
Should a minority make an improper use of this course of the motility to reconsider by applying it to a vote which required action before the next regular business organization meeting, the remedy is at once to vote that when the assembly adjourns it adjourns to meet on another day, appointing a suitable 24-hour interval, when the reconsideration could be called upwards and disposed of. The mere making of this motility would probably crusade the withdrawal of the move to reconsider, as information technology would defeat the object of that move if the bulk of the society is in favor of the motility to be reconsidered. If the move to reconsider is withdrawn, of grade the other would be.
This form of the motion to reconsider and have entered on the minutes differs from the simple grade to reconsider in the post-obit respects:
(1) It can be made only on the day the vote to be reconsidered is taken. If a meeting is held on the next twenty-four hour period the simple form of the move to reconsider, fabricated and then, accomplishes the object of this motion by bringing the question before the assembly on a different day from the one when the vote was taken.
(2) It outranks the simple course of the motion to reconsider, and may be made fifty-fifty subsequently the vote has been taken on the motion to reconsider, provided the upshot of the vote has not been announced. If made after the elementary course of the motion to reconsider, information technology supersedes the latter, which is thereafter ignored.
(3) Information technology can be practical only to votes which finally dispose of the chief question. They are every bit follows: an affirmative or negative vote on adapting, and an affirmative vote on postponing indefinitely, a principal question. And it may exist applied to a negative vote on the consideration of a question that has been objected to, provided the session extends across that day.
(iv) In an associates not having regular business meetings as often every bit quarterly, information technology cannot be moved at the last business organization meeting of a session.
(5) It cannot exist called upward on the twenty-four hour period it is made, except when it is moved on the last day of a session of an assembly not having regular business sessions as oft as quarterly, when any one can phone call it up at the last business meeting of the session.
After information technology is called up there is no divergence in the treatment of the two forms of the motion.
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one. H.R. Rule xviii. §l, is as follows: "1. When a motion has been fabricated and carried, or lost, information technology shall be in social club for whatever member of the majority, on the aforementioned or succeeding day, to motility for the reconsideration thereof, and such movement shall take precedence of all other questions except the consideration of a conference written report or a motion to curb, and shall non be withdrawn after the said succeeding day without the consent of the House, and thereafter any member may call it upward for consideration: Provided, that such move, if made during the final vi days of a session, shall be disposed of when made." This rule is construed to mean that the motion to reconsider may be made past any fellow member who voted on the question, except when the yeas and nays were ordered to be recorded in the journal, which is done, nonetheless, with every important vote.
2. In Congress it is usual for the member in charge of an of import neb as soon as it is passed to move its reconsideration, and at the aforementioned fourth dimension to move that the reconsideration be laid on the table. If the latter move is adopted the reconsideration is expressionless and the bill is in the aforementioned condition equally if the afterthought bad been voted on and lost. These Rules, like the mutual parliamentary law, carry the beak to the table, from which information technology could exist taken at whatever fourth dimension. [See note, 35.] Unless there is a special rule allowing information technology, the two motions could non be fabricated at the aforementioned time in an ordinary society.
3. In Congress the effect always terminates with the session, and information technology cannot be called upwards past any one but the mover, until the expiration of the time during which it will exist in order to move a reconsideration.
four. In Congress, where the quorum is a majority of the members elected, and the members are paid for their services, there is no need for this form of the move. On the contrary, it has been establish necessary to provide ways past which the majority may, when it pleases, preclude the making of the motion to reconsider by any one except the member in accuse of the measure out.
37. Rescind, Repeal, or Counteract. Any vote taken by an assembly, except those mentioned farther on, may be rescinded by a majority vote, provided observe of the motion has been given at the previous meeting or in the call for this meeting; or it may be rescinded without notice by a two-thirds vote, or by a vote of a majority of the entire membership. The discover may be given when another question is pending, only cannot interrupt a member while speaking. To rescind is identical with the motion to amend something previously adopted, by striking out the entire by-police force, rule, resolution, section, or paragraph, and is subject to all the limitations as to notice and vote that may be placed by the rules on similar amendments. Information technology is a main motion without whatsoever privilege, and therefore tin be introduced only when at that place is nothing else earlier the assembly. It cannot be made if the question tin be reached by calling up the motion to reconsider which has been previously made. Information technology may exist fabricated by whatsoever member; it is debatable, and yields to all privileged and incidental motions; and all of the subsidiary motions may be practical to information technology. The movement to rescind can be applied to votes on all chief motions, including questions of privilege and orders of the mean solar day that have been acted upon, and to votes on an entreatment, with the following exceptions: votes cannot be rescinded after something has been done as a result of that vote that the assembly cannot disengage; or where it is in the nature of a contract and the other party is informed of the fact; or, where a resignation has been acted upon, or one has been elected to, or expelled from, membership or office, and was present or has been officially notified. In the case of expulsion, the merely way to reverse the action afterward is to restore the person to membership or function, which requires the same preliminary steps and vote as is required for an election.
Where it is desired not only to rescind the action, but to express very strong disapproval, legislative bodies take, on rare occasions, voted to rescind the objectionable resolution and expunge it from the tape, which is done by crossing out the words, or drawing a line around them, and writing across them the words, "Expunged by order of the assembly," etc., giving the date of the gild. This statement should be signed by the secretary. The words expunged must not be so blotted as not to exist readable, as otherwise it would be impossible to make up one's mind whether more than was expunged than ordered. Any vote less than a majority of the full membership of an organisation is certainly incompetent to expunge from the records a right statement of what was done and recorded and the record of which was officially approved, even though a quorum is present and the vote to expunge is unanimous.
38. Renewal of a Move. When an original main motion or an amendment has been adopted, or rejected, or a main motility has been postponed indefinitely, or an objection to its consideration has been sustained, it, or practically the same motion, cannot be again brought before the assembly at the aforementioned session, except past a motility to reconsider or to rescind the vote. Merely information technology may exist introduced again at any future session.
In assemblies having regular sessions equally oft at to the lowest degree as quarterly, a principal motion cannot be renewed until after the close of the side by side regular session, if information technology was postponed to that next session; or laid on the table; or adopted, or rejected, or postponed indefinitely, and the movement to reconsider was fabricated and not acted on at the previous session. In these cases the question can be reached at the side by side session at the time to which it was postponed, or by taking it from the table, or by reconsidering the vote.
In assemblies whose regular sessions are not as frequent as quarterly, any movement which has not been committed or postponed to the next session may exist renewed at that next session. The motions to adjourn, to take a recess, and to lay on the table, may be made again and again, provided there has been progress in debate or business, but the making of, or voting on, these motions is not business organisation that justifies the renewal of a motion. Neither a motion to postpone indefinitely nor an amendment can be renewed at the same session, just the other subsidiary motions may exist renewed whenever the progress in debate or business is such as to make the question earlier the assembly practically a unlike one. To take from the tabular array and a call for the orders of the twenty-four hours may be renewed afterwards the business is disposed of that was taken upwards when the motion to have from the table, or for the orders of the day, was lost. To postpone indefinitely cannot be renewed fifty-fifty though the principal move has been amended since the indefinite postponement was previously moved. A point of order cannot be raised if an identical ane has been raised previously without success during the same session. And after the chair has been sustained in a ruling he need not entertain an appeal from a like conclusion during the same session. Minutes may be corrected regardless of the time elapsed and of the fact that the correction had been previously proposed and lost.
When a subject which has been referred to a committee is reported back at the same meeting, or a subject that has been laid on the table is taken upwardly at the same coming together, it is not a renewal.
The following motions, unless they have been withdrawn, cannot be renewed at the same session: to adopt or postpone indefinitely an original main motion; to amend; to reconsider, unless the question to be reconsidered was amended materially when previously reconsidered; to object to the consideration of a question; to fix the same time to which to adjourn; to suspend the rules for the same purpose at the same meeting, though it may be renewed at another meeting held the same day.
It is the duty of the chair to prevent the privilege of renewal from being used to obstruct business, and when it is evident that it is beingness so misused he should protect the assembly by refusing to recognize the motions, every bit explained under Dilatory Motions [40].
39. Ratify. This is a primary movement and is used when it is desired to confirm or make valid some action which requires the approval of the associates to make it valid. The assembly may ratify only such actions of its officers or committees, or delegates, equally information technology had the right to authorize in accelerate. Information technology cannot brand valid a viva voce election when the by-laws require it to be by ballot, nor tin it ratify anything done in violation of the laws of the land, or of its own constitution or past-laws, except that it may ratify emergency action taken at a coming together when no quorum was nowadays, even though the quorum is provided for in a by-law. A motion to ratify may be amended by substituting a motion of censure, and vice versa, when the activeness has been taken by an officer or other representative of the assembly. It is debatable and opens the entire question to debate.
40. Dilatory, Absurd, or Frivolous Motions. For the convenience of deliberative assemblies, information technology is necessary to allow some highly privileged motions to be renewed once more and again after progress in contend or the transaction of whatever concern, and to allow a single fellow member, by calling for a division, to accept another vote taken. If in that location was no provision for protecting the assembly, a minority of two members could be constantly raising questions of order and appealing from every decision of the chair, and calling for a division on every vote, even when it was about unanimous, and moving to lay motions on the table, and to adjourn, and offering amendments that are but frivolous or absurd. Past taking advantage of parliamentary forms and methods a small minority could practically cease the business organization of a deliberative assembly having short sessions, if in that location was no provision for such contingency. Congress met it by adopting this dominion: "No dilatory motion shall be entertained past the speaker." But, without adopting any rule on the subject, every deliberative assembly has the inherent right to protect itself from being imposed upon by members using parliamentary forms to prevent it from doing the very thing for which it is in session, and which these forms were designed to assistance, namely, to transact business. Therefore, whenever the chair is satisfied that members are using parliamentary forms only to obstruct business organisation, he should either not recognize them, or else rule them out of order. After the chair has been sustained upon an appeal, he should non entertain another appeal from the aforementioned obstructionists while they are engaged evidently in trying by that means to obstruct business. While the chair should always exist courteous and fair, he should be firm in protecting the associates from imposition, even though it be done in strict conformity with all parliamentary rules except this 1, that no dilatory, cool, or frivolous motions are allowed.
As an illustration of a frivolous or absurd move, suppose Mr. A is to exist in the city adjacent week and a motion has been fabricated to invite him to address the assembly at its adjacent coming together, the meetings being weekly. Now, if a motility is fabricated to refer the question to a committee with instructions to report at the next regular meeting, the chair should rule it out of club as frivolous or cool.
41. Telephone call of the House.i (This cannot be used in ordinary assemblies, as they have not the ability to compel the omnipresence of members.)
The object of a phone call of the business firm is to hogtie the attendance of absent-minded members, and is allowable only in assemblies that have the power to compel the attendance of absentees. It is usual to provide in such assemblies that when no quorum is present, a specified small-scale number can society a call of the house. In Congress a call of the house may be ordered by a bulk vote, provided ane-fifth of the members elect are nowadays. A dominion similar the following would answer for urban center councils and other similar bodies that accept the ability to enforce attendance.
Rule. When no quorum is present, if 1-5th of the members elect are nowadays, they may past a bulk vote order a telephone call of the house and compel the omnipresence of absent members. Afterward the call is ordered, a move to curb, or to dispense with further proceedings in the call, cannot be entertained until a quorum is nowadays, or until the sergeant-at-artillery2 reports that in his opinion no quorum tin can be obtained on that solar day.
If no quorum is nowadays, a telephone call of the firm takes precedence of everything, even reading the minutes, except the motion to curb, and only requires in its favor the number specified in the rule. If a quorum is nowadays a call should rank with questions of privilege [xix], requiring a majority vote for its adoption, and if rejected information technology should not be renewed while a quorum is nowadays at that meeting. After a call is ordered, until farther proceedings in the phone call are dispensed with, no motion is in order except to adjourn and a movement relating to the phone call, and so that a recess could not be taken past unanimous consent. An adjournment puts an cease to all proceedings in the call, except that the assembly before adjournment, if a quorum is present, can order such members as are already arrested to make their alibi at an adjourned coming together.
Proceedings in a Call of the House. When the call is ordered the clerk calls the roll of members alphabetically, noting the absentees; he then calls over again the names of absentees, when excuses3 can be made; later this the doors are locked, no one being permitted to go out, and an order similar in grade to the following is adopted: "Ordered, That the sergeant-at-arms take into custody, and bring to the bar of the Business firm, such of its members equally are absent without the go out of the Business firm." A warrant signed by the presiding officer and attested by the clerk, with a list of absentees attached, is then given to the sergeant-at-arms, who immediately proceeds to arrest the absentees. When he appears with members under abort, he proceeds to the chairman's desk-bound (beingness announced by the doorkeeper in large bodies), followed by the arrested members, and makes his render. The chairman arraigns each member separately, and asks what alibi he has to offer for being absent from the sittings of the assembly without its get out. The member states his excuse, and a motility is fabricated that he be discharged from custody and admitted to his seat either without payment of fees or after paying his fees. Until a fellow member has paid the fees assessed against him he cannot vote or be recognized by the chair for any purpose.
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1. In the early history of our Congress a call of the house required a day's detect and in the English parliament information technology is usual to order that the call shall be made on a certain day in the future, usually not over 10 days afterwards, though it has been as long as six weeks later on. The object of this is to requite notice so that all the members may be present on that twenty-four hour period, when important business is to come before the business firm. In Congress a telephone call of the firm is only used now when no quorum is present, and every bit soon as a quorum appears it is usual to dispense with further proceedings in the telephone call, and this is in order at whatever stage of the proceedings. In Congress information technology is customary subsequently to remit the fees that accept been assessed. In some of our legislative bodies proceedings the call cannot exist dispensed with except a majority of the members elect to vote in favor of then doing.
2. The term sergeant-at-arms should exist replaced by "chief of police," or the title of whatever officer serves the warrant.
3. It is usual in Congress to alibi those who take "paired off," that is, ii members on reverse sides of the awaiting question who accept agreed that while 1 is absent the other will non vote on the question. Pairing should not be allowed on questions requiring a two-thirds vote.
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