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such amendment, which amendment, being ger mane to the subject-matter of the bill, shall retrench expenditures.

bor and private

ence.

May 16, 1879.

3. All bills for improvement of rivers and har- River and harbors, and all bills of a private nature, shall be de- bills delivered to livered to the Clerk, as in the case of memorials and Clerk for refer petitions, for reference to appropriate committees. May 5. 1870. 4. No bill for the payment or adjudication of any Claims and priprivate claim against the Government shall be re- to certain com ferred, except by unanimous consent, to any other mittees, unless than the following-named committees, viz: To the dered otherwise. Committee on Invalid Pensions, to the Committee

on Pensions, to the Committee on Claims, to the
Committee on War Claims, to the Committee on
Private Land Claims, and to the Committee on
Accounts.

RULE XXII.

OF PETITIONS, MEMORIALS, BILLS, AND RESOLU

TIONS.

vatebills referred

unanimously or

Dec. 18, 1885.

Private bills and petitions in

1. Members having petitions or memorials or bills of a private nature to present may deliver troduced by de

livering to Clerk. Mar. 29, 1842.

Reference to be

nal and in Rec

Feb. 20, 1880.

them to the Clerk, indorsing their names and the reference or disposition to be made thereof; and said petitions and memorials and bills of a private entered on Journature, except such as, in the judgment of the ord. Speaker, are of an obscene or insulting character, shall be entered on the Journal with the names of the Members presenting them, and the Clerk shall furnish a transcript of such entry to the official reporters of debates for publication in the Record. 2. Any petition or memorial or private bill excluded under this rule shall be returned to the bills to be reMember from whom it was received; and petitions ber and private bills which have been inappropriately Erroneous refreferred may, by direction of the committee hav-erence, how coring possession of the same, be properly referred confer jurisdicin the manner originally presented; and an erroneous reference of a petition or private bill under this clause shall not confer jurisdiction upon the committee to consider or report the same.

Insulting peti. tions or private

turned to Mem

rected: does not

tion.
Mar. 29, 1842.

etc., and legisla

referred by Speaker.

Title and refer

Journal and in

Record.

erence; how cor

rected.

Feb. 14, 1890.

Public bills, 3. All other bills, memorials, and resolutions tive memorials may in like manner be delivered, indorsed with the names of members introducing them, to the Speaker, to be by him referred, and the titles and ence entered on reference thereof, and of all bills, resolutions, and documents referred under the rules, shall be entered on the Journal and printed in the Record of Erroneous ref- the next day, and correction in case of error of reference may be made by the House, without debate, and in accordance with Rule XI, on any day immediately after the reading of the Journal, by unanimous consent, or on motion of a committee claiming jurisdiction, or on the report of the committee to which the bill has been erroneously referred. 4. When a bill, resolution, or memorial is introduced "by request," these words shall be entered upon the Journal and printed in the Record. Resolutions of 5. All resolutions of inquiry addressed to the ported in one heads of Executive Departments shall be reported May 1, 1879. to the House within one week after presentation.

"By request" to be entered on Journal.

Feb. 14, 1888.

inquiry to be re

week.

Committee of the Whole.

Speaker to

man.

Apr. 7. 1789.

RULE XXIII.

OF COMMITTEES OF THE WHOLE HOUSE.

leave chair and 1. In all cases, in forming a Committee of the appoint chair- Whole House, the Speaker shall leave his chair after appointing a chairman to preside, who shall, in case of disturbance or disorderly conduct in the galleries or lobby, have power to cause the same to be cleared.

Mar. 14, 1794.

When without quorum. roll

sentees reported.

2. Whenever a Committee of the Whole House called and ab- finds itself without a quorum, the chairman shall Dec. 18, 1847. cause the roll to be called, and thereupon the committee shall rise, and the chairman shall report the names of the absentees to the House, which shall be Quorum ap entered on the Journal; but if on such call a quorum shall appear, the committee shall thereupon resume its sitting without further order of the House.

pearing, sitting resumed.

Feb. 27, 1880.

making or requir

tions, etc., first
considered in

3. All motions or propositions involving a tax Propositions or charge upon the people; all proceedings touch- ing appropriaing appropriations of money, or bills making ap- Committee of the propriations of money or property, or requiring whole. Nov. 13, 1794. such appropriation to be made, or authorizing pay- Jan. 13, 1874. ments out of appropriations already made, or releasing any liability to the United States for money or property, shall be first considered in a Committee of the Whole, and a point of order un- when to be made. der this rule shall be good at any time before the consideration of a bill has commenced.

Point of order;

endars consid-
ered according to
their order, but

precedence given
propriation bills.

revenue and ap

July 27, 1848.

Question of con

Committee of the
Whole; how de-
cided.

4. In Committees of the Whole House, business Business on calon their calendars shall be taken up in regular order, except bills for raising revenue, general appropriation bills, and bills for the improvement of rivers and harbors, which shall have precedence, and when objection is made to passing over any bill or proposition, the committee shall thereupon rise and report such objection to the House, which shall decide, without debate, whether such bill or sideration in proposition shall be considered or laid aside for the present; whereupon the committee shall resume its sitting without further order of the House. 5. When general debate is closed by order of Five-minute the House, any Member shall be allowed five min- ments after genutes to explain any amendment he may offer, after closed. which the Member who shall first obtain the floor shall be allowed to speak five minutes in opposition to it, and there shall be no further debate thereon; but the same privilege of debate shall be allowed in favor of and against any amendment that may be offered to an amendment; and neither an amendment nor an amendment to an amendment shall be withdrawn by the mover thereof unless by the unanimous conunanimous consent of the committee.

rule on amend

eral debate

Dec. 18, 1847.

Aug. 14, 1850. Amendment not to be with

drawn except by

sent

on

amendment or

paragraph; how

6. The House or the Committee may, by the vote, Debate of a majority of the Members present, at any time after the five minutes' debate has begun upon pro

posed amendments to any section or paragraph to

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closed.

Mar. 19, 1860.
Feb. 20, 1880.
Feb. 14, 1890.

Nov. 2, 1893.

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Motion to strike out enacting clause.

Mar. 16, 1822.

mendation of

a bill, close all debate upon such section or paragraph, or, at its election, upon the pending amendments only (which motion shall be decided without debate); but this shall not preclude further amendment, to be decided without debate.

7. A motion to strike out the enacting words of a bill shall have precedence of a motion to amend; and, if carried, shall be considered equivalent to Adverse recom its rejection. Whenever a bill is reported from a committee disa Committee of the Whole with an adverse recomgreed to, bill remendation, and such recommendation is disagreed committed. Mar. 16, 1860. to by the House, the bill shall stand recommitted to the said committee without further action by But before the question of concur

But motion to the House.

otherwise refer first in order.

May 26, 1870.

Rules applicable in Committee of the Whole.

Apr. 7, 1789.

Order of busi

ness.

Approval of

Journal.

Executive communications, reference of.

the Senate, reference of.

rence is submitted, it is in order to entertain a motion to refer the bill to any committee, with or without instructions, and when the same is again reported to the House it shall be referred to the Committee of the Whole without debate.

8. The rules of proceeding in the House shall be observed in Committees of the Whole House so far as they may be applicable.

RULE XXIV.

ORDER OF BUSINESS.

1. After the Journal is read and approved each Dec. 18, 1885 day, the Speaker shall lay before the House, for reference, without debate, messages from the President, reports and communications from the heads of Departments, and other communications adBills, etc., from dressed to the House, and also such bills, resolutions, and other messages from the Senate as may have been received on previous days (but no such message, report, communication, bill, or resolution shall be printed except by order of the Speaker or the House; and House bills with Senate amend ments which do not require consideration in Com mittee of the Whole may be at once disposed of as the House may determine).

Senate amend

ments to House

bills may be dis

posed of.

Feb. 3, 1892.

for reports of Except first and

Sept. 15, 1837.

mailed to Mem

Feb. 20, 1880.

2. On all days other than the first and third Mon- Morning hour days in each month as soon as the business on the committees. Speaker's table has been disposed of, there shall third Mondays. be a morning hour for reports from committees, which shall be appropriately referred and printed, and a copy thereof mailed by the Public Printer to Reports to be each Member and Delegate, if requested in writing bers. by the Member or Delegate; and the Speaker shall call upon each standing committee in reguiar order and then upon the select committees; and if the whole of the hour is not consumed by this call, then it shall be in order to proceed to the consideration of other business as hereinafter provided; but if he shall not complete the call within the hour, he shall resume it in the succeeding morning hour where he left off. 3. The morning hour for the call of committees Two-thirds may shall not be dispensed with except by a vote of two thirds of those present and voting thereon.

Call resumed next day where left off.

dispense with the morning hour,

Apr. 9, 1879.

Hour for consideration of bills

on Calendars. Committees to

be called in order. Dec. 18, 1885.

4. After the morning hour shall have been devoted to reports from committees (or the call com pleted), the Speaker shall again call the committees in regular order for one hour, upon which call each committee, on being named, shall have the right to call up for consideration any bill reported by it on a previous day. And whenever any committee shall have occupied the said hour for one day, it shall not be in order for such committee to designate any other proposition for consideration until all the other committees shall have been called in their turn; and when any proposition shall have occupied two hours on this call it shall thereafter remain on the Calendar and be taken up in its order: Provided, That when the hour herein pre- committee of the scribed shall expire while the Committee of the Whole rises with Whole is considering a bill, the said committee shall rise without motion therefor.

Hour expiring

out motion.

iness at a pre

5. After the hour under the preceding clause, Unfinished busshall have been occupied, it shall be in order to vious adjourn proceed to the consideration of the unfinished busi-Mar. 18, 1860.

ment.

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