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When failure of, disclosed, roll called and absentees reported

to House...

499

May rise, on motion before roll call, in absence of...

499

In absence of, roll is called but once..

499

Proceedings in order in absence of-

Recess can not be taken.............

Motion to fix day not in order pending a motion to adjourn ..
Recess previously ordered can be taken when hour fixed arrives

500

500

500

Question remains statu quo..

500

Yeas and nays may be taken..

500

Vote ordering or refusing yeas and nays:may be reconsidered
May adjourn from day to day.

500

501

Questions incidental to call of House....

501

Quorum required to discharge Sergeant-at-Arms from further
proceeding on warrant of arrest continued after a call of the
House.....

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Motion to summon a Member to bar to answer for contempt,
in refusing to answer on roll call, not in order..

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When right to make point of no quorum waived....

501

By tellers when failure of, to vote on a division

501

Vote by tellers being interrupted, how resumed.............
Order made, when Journal shows absence of, a nullity.
Call of House may be ordered, notwithstanding quorum pres-

ent.

502, 503

502

502

Failure of, having been disclosed, quorum must appear of
record before proceeding to business

502

Yeas and nays on roll call is the last mode of certification of,
from which there is no appeal................

502

Judgment of Chair as to presence of, not permissible against

a roll call....

502

Quorum-Continued.

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How ascertained-Continued.

Practice of permitting a Member to be taken off the floor by
point of no quorum, abandoned

502

Failure of a quorum only taken notice of when disclosed by
a roll call...............

502

Rule for supplementing a, proposed in the Forty-sixth Con-
gress.

502,503

Practice in Fifty-first Congress as to counting, before rules
adopted.....

503

Rule of Fifty-first Congress authorized Speaker to add names
of Members present and not voting

503

Rule declared constitutional by Supreme Court

504

Rule XV amended so as to authorize tellers to report for entry
on Journal Members present and not voting....
Difference between present rule and rule of Fifty-first
Congress

504

504

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Shall be read three times before passage. (Rule XXI, 1) ....
Bills on their passage shall be read first time by title, second
time in full, third time by title, unless demanded in full.
(Rule XXI, 1)..

221

221

Reading of Papers-

When objection made to, shall be determined without debate

by vote of House. (Rule xxXXI)..

Rights of Members to call for......

230, 505

504

Rule as to, does not apply to the formal reading of bills..
May be demanded on motion to refer

505

504

Right to demand, may be lost by suspension of rules...............
Reading of report, being debate, can not be demanded after
previous question ordered....

505

505

Of engrossed bill, on presentation of conference report, not in
order....

505

Of engrossed bill, after third reading and when yeas and nays
ordered on passage, not in order.....

505

Of testimony, on motion to recommit, a report not in order...
Of message from the President, may be demanded as a matter
of right, but not accompanying documents

505

505

During personal explanation.....

505

Of a printed book during debate, held not in order.....

506

Recall of Bill-

Bill prematurely transmitted or erroneously engrossed may be
recalled from Senate or President...

506

Resolution requesting, presents question of high privilege...

506

Recede, Motion to. (See also CONFERENCE Committees.)
Precedence of, over motion to insist, etc......

In order after previous question ordered on motion to insist..
Motion to recede from disagreement should include motion
that House agree to amendment..

Recess

Precedence of motion for. (Rule XVI, 4).
Motion for, always in order. (Rule XVI, 5).

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506

506

506

218,507

On Fridays at 5 p. m. for evening session. (Rule XXVI, 3)..........
Less than quorum can not take...

218, 507
228

507

When previously ordered quorum not required to take, when
hour arrives ...

507

Not in order during call of House

507

Can not be taken beyond hour of next daily meeting of House.
When hour previously fixed for, arrives, Chair declares House
in recess....

507

507

If roll is being called, call is completed before recess
declared.....

508

In order before Journal is read

508

Friday being substituted as day for motions to suspend rules,

rule for recess on Friday vacated ..........

508

Not in order to reconsider vote refusing to take...........
Motion to suspend rules entertained pending motion for.............
Effect of, taken at evening session; next meeting not continu-
ation of evening session....

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Member reporting measure entitled to, to open and close de-

bate. (Rule XIV, 3)

215, 510

Member who has spoken not entitled to. (Rule XIV, 6) 215, 510
Speaker decides who is entitled to, not the House....
Usage to give precedence in, to Member reporting measure........
Usage to alternate between supporters and opponents of

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Right of, for privileged motion when another Member is occu-
pying floor

509

Demand for regular order equivalent to objection..

509

Upon adverse decision on incidental motion, right to, shifts to
successful side...

510

Under recent practice preference given to Member in charge of
a bill to offer, successively, amendments to perfect the bill..

510

Recommit, Motion to. (See also COMMIT; REFER.)

When adverse recommendation of a Committee of Whole is
disagreed to by House, bill shall stand recommitted. (Rule
XXIII, 7)

Precedence of being the equivalent of refer-when in order,
debatable. (Rule XVI, 4)..........

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In order with or without instructions, when question on pas-
sage. (Rule XVII, 1)...................

220

Desirable when by reason of amendments rearrangement of
text is necessary.

Of equal rank with motion to amend.....

Amendable and subject to previous question......

Recommitted bill reported without new item not subject to

consideration in Committee of Whole......

Not applicable to conference reports....

510

510

510

511

511

With leave to report at any time not in order.....
Coupled with proposition for special order not in order......
Division of question not in order on motion to recommit with
instructions, etc..

511

511

511

Out of order to recommit with instruction to report an amend-
ment which is not in order.

511

After engrossment and third reading-

When question on passage one motion to recommit with or
without instructions..

511

Applicable to simple resolution.....

To resolution in contested election case
Status of bill reported after recommitment.

Bill recommitted with instructions to report forthwith may be
immediately presented by chairman of committee........ 512,513
House can not do indirectly by recommitment what it is not
competent to do by amendment....

Reconsideration-

313

513

511

512

512

Motion for, may be made by Member voting with prevailing
side on the same or day after vote taken. (Rule XVIII, 1).. 220
Delegates can not make motion for. (Rule XII)...
Precedence of motion for. (Rule XVIII, 1). .....

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Motion for, can not be withdrawn after succeeding day. (Rule
XVIII, 1)...

220

Motion for, made during last six days of session shall be dis-
posed of when made. (Rule XVIII, 1).....................

220, 513

Bills, etc., referred to committees not to be brought back on

motion for. (Rule XVIII, 2).

220,517

Of vetoed bill.............

513

When motion for, in order and when not-

When vote is not by yeas and nays, any Member may move...
May be entered but not considered while another measure is
pending..

513

514

Reconsideration-Continued.

When motion for, in order and when not-Continued.

May be entertained when papers are out of the custody of the
House....

Page.

514

When pending at expiration of consideration hour is un-
finished business when hour next recurs..

514

In order whenever, and only, when called up.

514

Of public bills, not in order on private bill days.
Speaker should refuse to sign enrolled bills in case of motion for.
In case of motion for, papers should be recalled from the
Senate.....

514

514

514

Effect of adjournment on motion for when bill being consid-
ered by special order......

514

Vote on sustaining decision of Speaker can not be reconsidered
after action thereon which it is impossible to reverse.....
Of order for engrossment in order pending demand for previous
question on passage..

Can be repeated where amendment offered since first reconsid-
eration

Effect of-

When House adjourns sine die, pending motion for...
On bills signed by President, pending a motion for....
When pending, previous question applies only to motion for.
Motion for, can not be withdrawn after refusal to lay that
motion on the table.

514

514

514,515

515

515

515

515

Motion for, when laid on table, deemed a finality....
Motion for, when laid on table, does not carry pending meas-
ure with it...........

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When House again refuses to lay bill on table motion for, not
to be repeated

516

Motion to reconsider vote laying a motion on table can not be
reconsidered..

516

Vote on motion to fix day can not be reconsidered
Vote on motion for recess can not be reconsidered
Reconsideration of a vote on an amendment not in order,
unless order for engrossment reconsidered..
Applies to previous question, but not when partly executed..
Vote on passage of vetoed bill can not be reconsidered...........
Vote on motion to suspend rules can not be reconsidered....
Vote by which appeal laid on table can not be reconsidered..

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