Menacing language toward a Member out of the House on account of interrogatories propounded by him to a witness before the House.-Journal, 1, 22, p. 740;

Disorder in the gallery.-Journal, 1, 24, p. 331;

Fracas between two reporters in the presence of the House.— Journal, 1, 24, p. 983;

Refusal of a Member to take his seat, in Committee of the Whole, when ordered by the chairman to do so.-Journal, 1, 24, p. 1209; Congressional Record, 1, 52, p. 5169.

Duel between two Members.-Journal, 2, 25, p. 501;

Warm words and a mutual assault between two Members in Committee of the Whole.-Journal, 2, 25, p. 1013;

Protest by the President against certain proceedings of the House.-Journal, 2, 27, p. 1459;

Proposition to impeach the President.-Journals, 3, 27, p. 159; 2, 39, p. 121;

Proposition to impeach civil officers of the United States under article 2, section 4.-Journals, 1, 48, p. 495; 2, 48, pp. 27, 28;

Alleged menace of Members by a mob at the seat of Government.-Journal, 1, 30, p. 712;

Charge of falsehood upon a Member in a newspaper by the printer of the House.―Journal, 1, 29, p. 223;

Alleged false and scandalous report of proceedings in the House by one of its reporters.-Journal, 2, 29, p. 320 ;

Alleged mutilation of the Journal by the Speaker.—Journal, 1, 31, p. 713;

Publication by the Public Printer of an article alleged to be for the purpose of exciting unlawful violence among Members.-Journal, 1, 33, p. 965;

Charges affecting the official character of a Member.-Journal, 1, 33, p. 1178;

Alteration and interpolation of House bills.-Journal 1, 33, p. 1194 ;

Assault upon a Senator by a Member of the House.-Journal, 1, 34, p. 1023;

Alleged corrupt combinations on the part of certain Members. Journal, 3, 31, pp. 475, 476;

Alleged misconduct on the part of an officer of the House.Journal, 1, 44, pp. 868, 948;

Resolution proposing to return a House bill to the Senate on the ground that certain amendments of the Senate thereto were in the nature of a revenue bill and an infringement of the constitutional right of the House to originate bills raising revenue.-Journals, 2, 45, p. 1303; 2, 48, pp. 316, 317;

Resolution involving the question whether or not the constitutional privileges and powers of the House to originate measures to lay and collect duties can be controlled by the treaty-making power under the Constitution.-Speaker Carlisle, Journal, 2, 49, pp 349, 350;

Allegation that one of the present occupants of the reporters' gallery had approached the Speaker of the House in a previ ous Congress with a corrupt proposition intended to influence his official action.-Journal, 1, 48, p. 444;

Alleged violation of the rule relative to the privilege of the floor.-Journal, 1, 49, pp. 781, 1420;

A resolution relating to alleged unparliamentary language used in the House impeaching the honesty of Senators individually and of the Senate as a body.-Journal, 1, 51, pp. 1011, 1044;

Alleged false and scandalous publication by a Member, concerning proceedings of the House and conduct of its Members.— Journal, 1, 52, p. 345.

Alleged scandalous charge reflecting on the dignity of the House reiterated by a Member in debate, though no action was taken respecting it at the time the remarks were made in the House.-Journal, 1, 52, p. 343.

Remarks delivered in the Senate purporting to impugn the motives of a Member acting in his representative capacity.Journal, 1, 52, p. 354.

Charges by a Member of usurpation of power and violation of law by an officer of the United States, accompanied by a resolution for an investigation.-Journal, 2, 48, pp. 27, 28.

Alleged unlawful intervention by the Executive, without authority of Congress, in the internal affairs of a friendly Government.-Journal, 2, 53, p. 44.

Alleged publication in the Congressional Record of matter not delivered in the House, and all questions affecting the integrity of the official record of debates.-Journal, 2, 48, pp.

A resolution submitted by a Member declaring a person entitled to a seat as a Member of the House, the same being at the time vacant, presents a question of privilege, notwithstanding that the question of his alleged right is pending before the Committee on Elections.-Congressional Record, 1, 48, p. 5299.

A motion to discharge a committee from the consideration of a vetoed bill presents a question of high privilege and is in order at any time.-Congressional Record, 1, 49, p. 7699.

WHAT ARE NOT.

A difference of opinion between Members as to certain historical facts, though involving a flat contradiction of each other's statements.-Speaker Carlisle, Journal, 1, 49, p. 490, Congressional Record, January 27, 1886. (See also Journal, 1, 49, pp. 1835, 1836, and June 10, 1886, Journal, 1, 49, p. 1850.)

A newspaper paragraph or article making vague and indefinite charges, and making no specific assertion or charge of fraud or corruption against a Member or Members, except by implication.-Journal, 1, 51, p. 908.

Allegation in a newspaper that Members of the House had engaged in a speculation which was directly affected by a bill then pending which afterward became a law.-Congressional Record, 2, 51, p. 1200.

A resolution to omit from the Record certain remarks declared out of order.-Journal, 2, 48, p. 356.

A resolution to appoint a committee to coöperate with a committee of the Senate respecting arrangements for inaugural ceremonies, as not having relation to the duties of the House under the Constitution.-Journal, 2, 48, p. 716.

A resolution calling on the Committee on Elections to report a contested election case.-Congressional Record, 1, 48, p. 5299. An allegation that a member of the Committee on Enrolled Bills, having in custody an enrolled bill, has failed or omitted to present it to the President for approval, no improper object or motive being imputed.-Journal, 1, 50, p. 2809.

A resolution directing a committee to investigate certain expenditures by the Government, no misappropriation being alleged.-Congressional Record, 1, 49, p. 1028.

A resolution for an inquiry as to the authority for inserting

in the Congressional Directory as a Member-elect to the next Congress the name of a certain Member.-Journal, 2, 52, p. 101.

An allegation in the course of debate that a Member is representing corporations instead of his constituents.—Journal, 2, 52, p. 106.

Resolution to appoint a committee to investigate the failure of the Post-Office Department to remove a postmaster who had attempted to bribe a public officer.-Journal, 1, 53, p. 109. A motion that the Sergeant-at-Arms be summoned to report his action in executing a continuing order of arrest.-Journal, 2, 53, p. 149.

Resolution authorizing an inquiry respecting alleged acts of unnecessary violence by policemen on the Capitol grounds.Journal, 2, 53, p. 369.

Resolution recommending the recall of a minister of the United States on account of official acts performed under instruction from the State Department.-Journal, 2, 53, p. 203. PRIVILEGED QUESTIONS.

Privileged questions are those to which precedence is given over other questions by some rule or special order of the House, or by the requirement of the Constitution or of a statute, and are of different grades among themselves.

PRECEDENCE OF.

Privileged questions may be considered as taking rank in the following order:

Proceedings specifically enjoined by the Constitution which do not permit of delay; e. g., counting the electoral vote.

A motion to suspend the rules on the first and third Mondays (subject to one motion to adjourn); Rule XXVIII;

A report from the Committee on Rules (subject to one motion to adjourn); Rule XI, clause 57;

A motion to reconsider may be made even pending a motion to adjourn, but the vote would first be taken on the latter motion;

Report of a conference committee; Rule XXIX;

Motion to fix the day to which the House shall adjourn;

Motion to adjourn;

Motion for a recess; Rule XVI, clause 4;

Motion to reconsider a prior vote; Rule XVIII, clause 1;

Question of privilege; Rule LX;

Reports from committees having leave to report at any time, under clause 57 of Rule XI.

[The reconsideration of a vetoed message. A motion to discharge a committee from consideration of a vetoed bill, and a motion to discharge a committee from the consideration of a resolution of inquiry not reported in one week after the reference may be considered as quasi questions of privilege. They have a similar precedence over other questions.]

The consideration of the several classes of business mentioned in Rule XXVI present privileged questions in the order therein indicated.

When a question is under consideration incidental or subsidiary motions have precedence one over the other, in the following order: [Subject to the motions to fix the day to which the House shall adjourn; to adjourn, and for a recess];

To lay on the table;

For the previous question;

(To commit or recommit take precedence of the previous question when the latter is demanded on the passage of a bill);

To postpone to a day certain;

To refer or amend;

To postpone indefinitely.

Though a conference report may be presented and considered pending a motion to adjourn, after consideration of, or debate on, the report has commenced, it may be interrupted by a motion to adjourn made by a member having the floor in his own right, which motion, by Rule XVI, clause 4, is always in order.

If a conference report is submitted pending a motion to adjourn, the question of consideration may be demanded against it, and if the House refuses to consider it the question recurs on the motion to adjourn.

By clause 57, Rule XI, a report from the Committee on Rules is very highly privileged, of equal, if not superior, rank with a conference report.

Questions of privilege are expressly made privileged questions by Rule IX, and, like conference reports and motions to reconsider, take precedence over other questions, motions to adjourn, to fix the day, and to take a recess being excepted.