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MISSISSIPPI RIVER, LEVEES OF.

Subjects relating to, belong to the jurisdiction of the Committee on Levees and Improvements of the Mississippi River. (632) Rule XI, section 24.

MISTAKES.

The parliamentary law provides that a mistake in the report of the
tellers may be rectified after it is made. (1123) Jefferson's Manual,
Section XLI, p. 169; see, however (1141), 1–29, Globe, p. 347.
See also "Errors."

MODIFICATION.

On a motion to suspend the rules, as on other motions, a Member has the right to modify a proposition submitted by him at any time before action which places it within the control of the House. (1595) 1-50, Journal, pp. 2716, 2722, Record, p. 8232.

MONDAYS.

The second and fourth Mondays of each month are set apart for business presented by the Committee on the District of Columbia. (1442) Rule XXVI, section 3.

Rules are suspended by a two-thirds vote on the last six days of a session and on the first and third Mondays of each month, individuals having preference on the first Monday and committees on the third. (1556) Rule XXVIII, section 1.

MONEY.

Bills appropriating money or property of the United States are considered first in Committee of the Whole. (764) Rule XXIII, sec

tion 3.

MORNING HOUR.

See also "Call of Committees."

The rule of the morning hour for the consideration of bills called up by committees. (375) Rule XXIV, section 4.

The period of the morning hour is deferred by the intervention of privileged questions, but is in order when such are disposed of. (376) 2-48, Journal, p. 476, Record, p. 1295.

A bill must be actually on the House Calendar, and properly there, also, in order to be considered in the morning hour. (378-380) 2-54, Record, pp. 83, 903, 1686.

Bills considered in the morning hour must be called up by authorization of the committees, but the Speaker can not, in case of dispute, decide as to the validity of such authorization. (705) 2-49, Record, p. 43. But he may, upon statement of the chairman and other members of the committee, rule that the calling up of a bill has been authorized. 3-55, Record, pp 221, 222; Journal, p. 34.

A bill presented by a committee under the call of committees may be withdrawn by authority of the committee. (463) 2-54, Journal, p. 77, Record, pp. 740, 764.

MORNING HOUR-Contirved.

At the end of sixty minutes the morning hour may be interrupted by a privileged report. (382) 1-51, Journal, p. 969, Record, p. 8819. The morning hour does not expire in sixty minutes unless on motion made and carried. (383) 1-54, Record, p. 3156.

A bill once brought up in the morning hour is considered until disposed of, although its consideration may extend over more than two days. (384) 2-55, Record, pp. 6593, 6594.

The rule for going into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union at the expiration of sixty minutes of the morning hour. (386) Rule XXIV, section 5.

When a motion to reconsider relates to a bill belonging to a particular class of business, as business in the morning hour, the consideration of the motion is in order only when that class of business is in order. (1219, 1220) 2-52, Journal, pp. 13, 14, Record, p. 34; 1–54, Record, p. 5298.

MOTIONS.
Submission of.

All motions shall be stated by the Speaker or read by the Clerk, and shall then be in possession of the House, but may be withdrawn before a decision or amendment. (923) Rule XVI, section 2. A motion shall be reduced to writing on the demand of any Member, and shall be entered on the Journal with the name of the Member making it, unless withdrawn on the same day. (922) Rule XVI, section 1.

A Member who proposes to submit a motion may not debate it until it has in fact been submitted and read or stated to the House by the Clerk or Speaker. (842) 2-53, Journal, pp. 37-41, Record, p. 376. Delegates from the Territories have the right to make motions. (37) 2-30, Journal, p. 503, Globe, p. 581.

A Delegate may make any motion which a Member may make, except the motion to reconsider. (38) 1-31, Journal, p. 1280.

It is within the province of the House, but not of the Speaker, to reject an amendment proposed inconsistent with one already agreed to. (1046) Jefferson's Manual, Section XXXV, pp. 157, 158. After a motion for a recess had been made, but before the vote had been taken, the hour to which the recess was proposed to be taken arrived. It was nevertheless held that the question should be taken on the motion. (1484) 2-50, Journal, p. 195, Record, pp. 630, 631. Precedence of, in House.

The motions allowed when a question is under debate, and their precedence. (924) Rule XVI, section 4.

The motion to adjourn takes precedence of all others, but may not be received while the House is engaged in voting. (1487) Jefferson's Manual, Section XXXIII, p. 148.

MOTIONS—Continued.

Precedence of, in House-Continued.

Precedence of motion to adjourn over the question of consideration. (812) 2-44, Journal, p. 252, Record, p. 725.

A conference report may be presented after a motion to adjourn has been made, but the report need not be disposed of before the motion (1393-1395) 2-50, Record, pp. 678, 683; 1-51, Record, pp. 6941, 6942, 7880.

to adjourn is put.

Journal, p. 822, 904,

A motion to suspend the rules is in order pending a motion to fix the day to which the House shall adjourn, even when the latter motion is highly privileged. (1603) 2-52, Journal, pp. 75, 76, Record, p. 1255.

No question being under debate, a motion to fix the day to which the House should adjourn already made was held not to give way to a motion to adjourn. (1512) 2-55, Record, p. 1637.

A Member may submit more than one motion in connection with a pending proposition, if the latter motion is of higher dignity than the former. (925) 2-33, Journal, pp. 483, 486, Globe, pp. 983, 994. Any Member of the majority may make the motion to reconsider, which takes precedence of all questions except conference reports and motions to adjourn. (1190) Rule XVIII, section 1.

A Member may make the motion to reconsider at any time without thereby abandoning a prior motion made by himself and pending. (1218) 1-53, Journal, pp. 172, 173, Record, p. 3122.

Motions to amend a paragraph take precedence of motions to strike it out or agree to it, although either of the latter motions may be made first. (1047) Jefferson's Manual, Section XXXV, p. 158. Each Friday, after the unfinished business is disposed of, the motion to go into Committee of the Whole House to consider business on the Private Calendar is in order. (1422) Rule XXIV, section 6.

Precedence of, as to Senate amendments.

The parlimentary law governing the precedence and effects of the motions to agree, disagree, recede, insist, and adhere. (1322) Jefferson's Manual, Section XXXVIII, p. 164.

A motion to amend an amendment from the other House takes precedence of a motion to agree or disagree. (1321) Jefferson's Manual, Section XLV, p. 175.

Before the stage of disagreement has been reached, the motion to refer Senate amendments has precedence of the motion to concur. (13431345) 1-48 Record, p. 3942; 2-52, Journal, p. 101, Record, p. 1954; 2-54, Record, p. 372; 2-55, Record, pp. 839, 840.

The stage of disagreement not having been reached, the motion to concur with an amendment has precedence of the simple motion to con

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The motion to insist has precedence of the motion to adhere.

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1-34, Journal, pp. 1427, 1484, 1516, 1518, 1600, 1602, Globe, p. 2037.

MOTIONS-Continued.

Precedence of, as to Senate amendments-Continued.

The motions to insist and ask a conference have precedence of the motion to instruct conferees. (1376-1379) 1-49, Record, pp. 7404, 7405, 7598; 2-54, Record, pp. 1321, 1322, 1334, 1940, 1945.

The stage of disagreement having been reached, the motion to recede and concur takes precedence of the motion to recede and concur with an amendment. (1349-1353) 2-53, Journal, p. 557, Record, p. 8389; 3-53, Journal, p. 185, Record, p. 3178; 1-54, Record, p. 6068; 1-55, Record, p. 2661; 2–55, Record, p. 6731.

A motion to recede and concur is in order even after the previous question has been demanded on a motion to insist. (1355) 2-55, Record, pp. 4041, 4056, 4060, 4062-4064.

A motion to recede and concur in a Senate amendment with an amendment takes precedence of a motion to further insist on the House's disagreement to the Senate amendment. (1348) 1-55, Record, pp. 2641, 2642.

Precedence of, in Committee of the Whole.

In Committee of the Whole the motion to report with a favorable recommendation has precedence of the motion to report with an unfavorable recommendation, and the negative of the former motion is not equivalent to the affirmative of the latter. (746) 1-54, Record, p. 1742.

In Committee of the Whole a motion to report a bill with the recommendation that it be postponed is in order, but the motion to report the bill with the recommendation that it do pass has precedence. (741) 2-55, Record, p. 843.

In Committee of the Whole the motion to report a bill with the recommendation that it be referred takes precedence of the motion to report it with the recommendation that it do pass. (745) 1-54, Record, p. 899.

In Committee of the Whole a motion to report a bill with the recommendation that it lie on the table has precedence of the recommendations that it be postponed to a day certain or be recommitted to a standing committee. (747) 2-55, Record, pp. 3923, 3924.

Dilatory motions.

No dilatory motion shall be entertained by the Speaker. (1607) Rule XVI, section 10.

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When the ordinary and proper parliamentary motions are being used solely for delay and obstruction, it is the duty of the Chair to rule them out of order as dilatory. (1612) 1-51, Journal, p. 181, Record, p. 999. When, in the opinion of the Speaker, motions or appeals have been made for purposes of delay only, he has ruled them out of order as dilatory. (1613-1620) 1-51, Journal, p. 997, Record, p. 9239; 2-53, Journal, pp. 284, 286, 287, 292, 293, 295, 304, 305, Record, pp. 3333-3340, 3353, 3422, 3423.

MOTIONS-Continued.

Dilatory motions-Continued.

The Speaker being satisfied that a quorum was present and that the point of no quorum was made for dilatory purposes has declined to entertain it. (1621-1623) 2-54, Record, p. 1133; 1-54, Record, pp.

6166, 6167, 6173; 2-55, Record, pp. 2559–2566.

The Speaker has ruled the demand for tellers dilatory when satisfied (1623, 1624) 2–55, Rec

that it was made only for purposes of delay. ord, pp. 2559-2566; 2-55, Record, p. 3234. The Constitutional right of a Member to demand the yeas and nays may not be overruled as dilatory. (1625) 2-55, Record, p. 847. In a limited class of cases the Speaker has for many years exercised the right to rule out motions as dilatory. (1608–1611) 1–33, Journal, pp. 735, 757, 762, 765, 854, Globe, pp. 1166, 1191, 1192; 1-39, Globe, pp. 944, 945; 1-50, Record, pp. 2709, 2710.

The Constitutional right of the House to "determine the rules of its proceeding" may not be impaired or destroyed by the indefinite repetition of dilatory motions. (1543) 1-47, Journal, p. 1366, Record, p. 4278.

Pending a report from the Committee on Rules one motion to adjourn is in order, and thereafter no other dilatory motion, even of the highest privilege, is in order. (1544, 1546) 1-52, Journal, p. 126, Record, p. 2837; 1-53, Journal, pp. 96–98.

Pending a motion to suspend the rules the Speaker may entertain one motion that the House adjourn, but thereafter no other dilatory motion may be made. (1559) Rule XVI, section 8. Amendment of.

Application of the motion to amend to other motions and other amendments. (1045) Jefferson's Manual, Section XXXIII, p. 153. An amendment to an amendment is in order, but a motion may not be made to amend in the third degree. (1045) Jefferson's Manual, section XXXIII, p. 153.

A motion to amend the motion for the previous question is not in order. (1045) Jefferson's Manual, section XXXIII, p. 153.

A motion to commit may be amended, as by adding, for example, "with instructions to inquire," etc. (1045) Jefferson's Manual, section XXXIII, p. 153.

A motion to adjourn may not be amended. (1487) Jefferson's Manual, section L, p. 183.

The motion to commit under section 1 of Rule XVII is amendable under the rules of the House, unless the previous question is ordered upon it. (1011-1013) 1-48, Journal, p. 1430; 1-49, Journal, pp. 378, 379, Record, pp. 694, 695; 3-53, Journal, pp. 28, 29, Record, p. 230.

It is in order to amend a motion to postpone. (1045) Jefferson's Manual, section XXXIII, p. 153.

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