Under this rule the roll is called twice, as provided in clause 1, before the tellers are required to report the names of Members present and failing to vote.-Journal, 2, 53, p. 338.

(See Vote.)

TERRITORIES, COMMITTEE ON.

(See Committees.)

TIE VOTE.

The Speaker shall not be required to vote in ordinary legis lative proceedings, except where his vote would be decisive, or where the House is engaged in voting by ballot; and in all cases of a tie vote the question shall be lost.-Rule I, clause 6.

The Speaker is, therefore, never required to vote in case of a tie, as his vote would only be decisive in the event it be cast in the affirmative, his failure to vote being equally decisive as a vote in the negative.

TITLE.

Amendments to the title of a bill or resolution shall not be in order until after its passage and shall be decided without debate.-Rule XIX. (This provision was first incorporated in the rules in the Fifty-third Congress.)

It is not in order to move an amendment to the title of a bill on a day succeeding its passage.-Journal, 2, 53, p. 132.

It was repeatedly held by Speaker Carlisle that the vote on adopting or amending the title was in order after the passage of the bill or resolution. Unless a separate vote is especially called for, however, the title as reported to the House is considered adopted upon the passage of the bill or resolution.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS.

Unfinished business takes precedence of other business of the same class, and this rule applies as well in Committee of the Whole as in the House.

Private business unfinished at the adjournment on one Friday takes precedence over other private business which may be reported from the Committee of the Whole House on the succeeding Friday; and both have precedence over the motion to resolve into Committee of the Whole House.-Congressional Record, 1, 51, p. 2237.

It is usual, however, to recognize a motion to resolve into Committee of the Whole House before proceeding with the unfinished private business previously reported, but if no such motion is made the unfinished business comes up as the regular order.

District of Columbia business unfinished at the adjournment on a second or a fourth Monday does not necessarily take precedence over other District business on the next "District" day; it being in the discretion of the committee, under the rule, to present such business as they may see fit.

When the House adjourns pending a motion to suspend the rules it is the usage to recognize the mover to renew the motion, on the day when suspension of the rules is next in order, and to consider such motion as quasi unfinished business. But when the House has on two successive suspension days adjourned pending such motion, and without seconding it as required by the rule, it will not continue unfinished business, and be given precedence over other motions to suspend the rules which the Chair may see proper to entertain.-Journal, 2, 52, p. 122.

Whenever any committee shall have occupied the said hour (the hour for the consideration of bills) 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.-Rule XXIV, clause 4; as amended November 2, 1893; Journal, 1, 53, p. 166.

After the hour under the preceding clause shall have been occupied, it shall be in order to proceed to the consideration of the unfinished business in which the House may have been engaged at an adjournment, and at the same time each day thereafter, other than the first and third Mondays, until disposed of; and it shall be in order to proceed to the consideration of all other unfinished business whenever the class of business to which it belongs shall be in order.—Rule XXIV, clause 5.

A motion to dispense with the morning hour, or other motion incidental to the daily order of business, expires with the day on which it is made and does not recur as unfinished business on the succeeding day.-Journal, 1, 53, p. 88.

A bill having passed in the hour for the consideration of bills, sometimes termed the second morning hour, and a motion to reconsider being made, the consideration of such motion is cut off by the expiration of the hour, and goes over for disposition when the hour for such business recurs on a subsequent day. Journal, 2, 52, pp. 13, 14.

The question of consideration can not be demanded against unfinished business on which the yeas and nays have been previously ordered, but which, by reason of an adjournment, were not taken.-Congressional Record, 1, 51, p. 8432.

When bills and reports from the Court of Claims to the House are left undisposed of at the end of a Congress, the bills are to be again read twice and referred to the Committee on Claims, and the adverse reports restored to the Private Calendar at the commencement of the next Congress.-Journals, 1, 35, pp. 134, 135; 1, 36, p. 247. In recent years, however, this practice has been discontinued. (See Claims, Court of, Proceedings upon Reports of.)

Revenue, general appropriation, and river and harbor bills take precedence in the foregoing order over other business unfinished in the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.-Rule XXIV, clause 6; Rule XVI, clause 9.

All business before committees of the House at the end of one session shall be resumed at the commencement of the next session of the same Congress in the same manner as if no adjournment had taken place.-Rule XXVII.

(See Business Unfinished at End of First Session.)

VENTILATION AND ACOUSTICS, COMMITTEE ON.

(See Committees.)

VETO.

Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a law, be presented to the President of the United States. If he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his objections, to that House in which it shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large on their Journal and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, two-thirds of that House shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, together

with the objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two-thirds of that House it shall become a law. But in all such cases the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill shall be entered on the Journal of each House, respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sunday excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their adjournment prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.-Const., 1, 7, 2, 6.

Every order, resolution, or vote to which,the concurrence of the Senate and House of Representatives may be necessary (except on a question of adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the same shall take effect shall be approved by him, or, being disapproved by him, shall be repassed by two-thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the rules and limitations prescribed in the case of a bill.-Const., 1, 7, 3, 6. .

Whenever a bill is returned to the House with the objections of the President, it is usual to have the message containing his objections immediately read (Journals, 1, 28, pp. 1081, 1084; 1, 29, pp. 1209, 1214; 2, 33, pp. 397, 411; 1, 31, p. 1420), and for the House to proceed to the reconsideration of the bill (Ibid.), or to postpone its consideration for a future day (Ibid., 1, 21, p. 742), but not where less than a quorum is present (Ibid., 1, 33, p. 1341; 3, 34, p. 1841). A veto message and a bill may be referred, or the message alone, and the bill may be laid on the table.-Journal, 2, 27, pp. 1253, 1254, 1256, 1257; Congressional Globe, same sess., p. 875.

It was held that the question of consideration can not be demanded against a bill returned to the House with the objec tions of the President.-Journal, 2, 53, p. 312. But if the message is received while the House is considering a question of the highest constitutional privilege, e. g., a contested-election case, the reconsideration of the vetoed bill does not necessarily interrupt the pending privileged question.-Journal, 2, 53, p. 295.

A committee to whom a vetoed bill is referred may report the same for consideration at any time.

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.

A motion to proceed to the consideration of a bill returned with the objections of the President presents a privileged question under the Constitution.-Congressional Globe, 2, 27, p. 905; 2, 28, p. 396; Journal, 1, 49, p. 2397.

The main question in the consideration of a vetoed bill is, "Will the House on reconsideration agree to pass the bill?". Journals, 2, 27, p. 1051; 1, 28, p. 1085; 1, 29, p. 1218.

The "two-thirds" by which a vetoed bill is required to be approved before it becomes a law has been construed in both Houses to mean "two-thirds of the members present" (Journal, 1, 34, pp. 1176, 1178, 1420, and Senate Journal, 1, 34, p. 419), a bare majority constituting a quorum for such purpose as in cases of other legislation.

Whenever a bill, order, resolution, or vote is returned by the President with his objections, and on being reconsidered is agreed to be passed, and is approved by two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, and thereby becomes a law or takes effect, it shall be received by the Secretary of State from the President of the Senate, or Speaker of the House of Representatives, in whichsoever House it shall last have been approved, and he shall carefully preserve the originals.-Laws, 2, 43, p. 294. (See President of the United States.)

VOTE.

If any difficulty arises in point of order during the division, the Speaker is to decide peremptorily, subject to the future censure of the House if irregular.-Manual, p. 170.

In all cases of a tie vote the question shall be lost.-Rule I, clause 6.

Officers of the House are required by Rule II to be elected by a viva voce vote.

METHODS OF TAKING.

There are four methods of taking a vote in the House, commencing with the inferior and ending with the highest and conclusive test, as follows:

First, by the sound.