Interior De 47. In the Interior Department: to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department; partment. 48. In the Department of Justice: to the Com-Department of mittee on Expenditures in the Department of Jus tice; 49. In the Department of Agriculture: to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture; 50. On public buildings: to the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings; 51. All proposed action touching the rules and joint rules and order of business shall be referred to the Committee on Rules; Justice. Department of Agriculture. Dec. 20, 1889. Public ings. Build Mar. 30, 1816. Rules. Dec. 27, 1849. Dec. 17, 1805. 52. Touching the expenditure of the contingent Accounts. fund of the House, the auditing and settling of all accounts which may be charged therein by order of the House: to the Committee on Accounts; Mileage. Sept. 15, 1837. 53. The ascertainment of the travel of members of the House shall be made by the Committee on Mileage and reported to the Sergeant-at-Arms; 54. Touching the Library of Congress, statuary, Library. and pictures: to the Joint Committee on the Library; Dec. 7, 1843. Mar. 16, 1844. 55. All proposed legislation or orders touching Printing, printing shall be referred to the Joint Committee on Printing on the part of the House; 56. The enrollment of engrossed bills: to the Joint Committee on Enrolled Bills. Enrolled Bills. Committees privileged to report at any time on certain sub Feb. 14, 1890. Feb. 11, 1880. 57. The following-named committees shall have leave to report at any time on the matters herein stated, viz: The Committee on Rules, on rules, joint jects. rules, and order of business; the Committee on Elections, on the right of a member to his seat; the Committee on Ways and Means, on bills raising revenue; the committees having jurisdiction of ap propriations, the general appropriation bills; the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, bills for the improvement of rivers and harbors; the Committee on Banking and Currency, bills relating to banking and currency; the Committee on Coinage, Aug. 31, 1893. Mar. 2, 1865. Dec. 18, 1885. Apr. 9, 1879, Dec. 18, 1885. Weights, and Measures, bills relating to coinage; the Committee on the Public Lands, bills for the forfeiture of land grants to railroads and other corporations, bills preventing speculation in the public lands, and bills for the reservation of the public lands for the benefit of actual and bona fide settlers; the Committee on Enrolled Bills, enrolled Mar. 16, 1860. bills; the Committee on Printing, on all matters referred to them of printing for the use of the House or two Houses; the Committee on Accounts, on all matters of expenditure of the contingent fund of the House. Mar. 13, 1822. Feb. 11. 1880. Reports; how considered. It shall always be in order to call up for consideration a report from the Committee on Rules, and pending the consideration thereof the Speaker may No dilatory mo- entertain one motion that the House adjourn; but after the result is announced, he shall not entertain any other dilatory motion until the said report shall have been fully disposed of. tion pending con sideration. Feb. 4, 1892. Committees not to sit during sitting of House. Nov. 13, 1789. Sept. 6, 1893. Appropriation bills, when to be reported. Feb. 1, 1892. Delegates. 58. No committee, except the Committee on Rules, shall sit during the sitting of the House without special leave. 59. It shall be the duty of the several committees having jurisdiction of the general appropriation bills to report said appropriation bills (except the general deficiency bill) within eighty days after the committees are announced in a long session, and within forty days after the commencement of a short session; and if any committee fail to so report, the reasons for such failure shall be privileged for consideration when called for by any member of the House. RULE XII. DELEGATES. The Speaker shall appoint from among the Delegates one additional member on each of the followAppointment ing committees, viz: Coinage, Weights, and Measures; Agriculture; Military Affairs; Post-Office and Post-Roads; Public Lands; Indian Affairs; Private Land Claims; and Mines and Mining; and of, on commit- Mar. 29, 1876. two on the Committee on the Territories; and they shall possess in their respective committees the same powers and privileges as in the House, and may make any motion except to reconsider. RULE XIII. CALENDARS. 1. There shall be three calendars of business re ported from committees, viz: First. A Calendar of the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union; to which shall be referred bills raising revenue, general appropriation bills, and bills of a public character, directly or indirectly appropriating money or property; Their powers. Committee of Whole on state of Union. Feb. 11, 1880. Second. A House Calendar, to which shall be re- House Calendar. ferred all bills of a public character not raising revenue nor directly or indirectly appropriating money or property; and vate bills. Third. A Calendar of the Committee of the Whole Calendar of priHouse, to which shall be referred all bills of a private character. vate bills and views of minority to be delivered to enceto calendars. Feb. 14, 1890. Feb. 1, 1892. 2. All reports of committees on private bills,Reports on pri together with the views of the minority, shall be delivered to the Clerk for printing and reference Clerk for refer to the proper calendar under the direction of the Speaker in accordance with the foregoing clause, and the titles or subjects thereof shall be entered on the Journal and printed in the Record. Adverse ports. Feb. 27, 1890. 3. All bills reported adversely shall be laid on the table, unless the committee reporting the same at the time, or any Member within three days Sept. 6, 1893. thereafter, shall request its reference to the Calendar, when it shall be referred as provided in clause one of this rule. RULE XIV. OF DECORUM AND DEBATE. re Member to he recognized be House. 1. When any Member desires to speak or deliver any matter to the House, he shall rise and respect- fore addressing fully address himself to "Mr. Speaker," and, on being recognized, may address the House from any Apr. 7, 1789. fined to pending question. Debate con- place on the floor or from the Clerk's desk, and shall confine himself to the question under debate, avoiding personality. Dec. 23, 1811. cides who enti Apr. 7, 1789. Speaker de- 2. When two or more Members rise at once, the tled to floor. Speaker shall name the Member who is first to speak; and no Member shall occupy more than one hour in debate on any question in the House or in the committee, except as further provided in this rule. Limit of one hour in debate. Dec. 18, 1847. Additional hour to close debate; when allowed. Feb. 11, 1880. Member called to order shall sit down. Apr. 7, 1789. 3. The Member reporting the measure under consideration from a committee may open and close, where general debate has been had thereon; and if it shall extend beyond one day, he shall be entitled to one hour to close, notwithstanding he may have used an hour in opening. 4. If any Member, in speaking, or otherwise, transgress the rules of the House, the Speaker Mar. 13, 1822. shall, or any Member may, call him to order; in which case he shall immediately sit down, unless permitted on motion of another Member to explain, and the House shall, if appealed to, decide ceed decided on the case, without debate; if the decision is in favor of the Member called to order, he shall be at liberty to proceed, but not otherwise; and, if the sure or punish case require it, he shall be liable to censure or such punishment as the House may deem proper. Right to pro without debate. Liable to cen ment. Words excepted to taken down. Sept. 14, 1837. 5. If a Member is called to order for words spoken in debate, the Member calling him to order shall indicate the words excepted to, and they shall be taken down in writing at the Clerk's desk and read aloud to the House; but he shall not be held to ble if debate or answer, nor be subject to the censure of the House inter therefor, if further debate or other business has in Not answera business venes. speak but once tervened. Member to 6. No Member shall speak more than once to the same question without leave of the House, unless on same question; exception Jan. 14 1840. as to mover of he be the mover, proposer, or introducer of the proposition. Apr. 7, 1789. matter pending, in which case he shall be permit ted to speak in reply, but not until every Member choosing to speak shall have spoken. debate and roll A pr. 7, 1789. Sept. 14, 1837. Feb. 28, 1871. 7. While the Speaker is putting a question or Crossing hall, smoking, etc., addressing the House no Member shall walk out of forbidden during or across the Hall, nor, when a Member is speak call. ing, pass between him and the Chair; and during the session of the House no Member shall wear his hat, or remain by the Clerk's desk during the call of the roll or the counting of ballots, or smoke. upon the floor of the House; neither shall any other person be allowed to smoke on the floor of the House at any time; and the Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper are charged with the strict enforcement of this clause. RULE XV. ON CALLS OF THE ROLL AND HOUSE. roll call request Apr. 7, 1789. 1. Upon every roll call the names of the Members After second shall be called alphabetically by surname, except when two or more have the same surname, in which case the name of the State shall be added; and if there be two such Members from the same State, the whole name shall be called; and after the roll has been once called, the Clerk shall call in their alphabetical order the names of those not voting; and thereafter the Speaker shall not entertain a request to record a vote. appointed at com mencement of roll call. 2. Upon every roll call, and before the beginning Tellers to be thereof, the Speaker shall name two Members, one from each side of the pending question, if practicable, who shall take their places at the Clerk's desk to tell the names of at least enough Members who are in the Hall of the House during the roll call who do not respond, when added to those responding, to make a quorum. If a quorum does not respond on the roll call, then the names of those so noted as present shall be reported to the present and not Speaker, who shall cause the list to be called the Clerk's desk and recorded in the Journal; and in determining the presence of a quorum to do business those who voted, those who answered "present," and those so reported present, shall be If no quorum answers, tellers shall report names of those answering, from which shall be entered in Jour. nal. Apr. 17, 1894. |