Amendment, may be amended prior to adoption but not (proposed,) by striking out, and lost, the para- not identical, or equivalent to one lost, may be pro- Page 178 178 180 by insertion, how far liable to further amendment 180 143 Ayes and Noes, how questions are determined by Assault and Affrays in the House, how settled Assent to bills, by the executive, regulations respecting 208 no member to vote if not present Bills, engrossed, must not be looked into 191 203 139 to be fairly written or Speaker may refuse them 151 158 a particular clause may be recommitted 158 one House may pass with blanks and be filled in Page 153 152 Bills, shall be read twice before commitment ceeding 199 by whom to be taken from house to house 205 206 rejected, course to be pursued 206 if one house neglects a bill, the other may remind 207 how to be enrolled, signed and presented to Presi- 208 amendments to, cannot be receded from or insist- 200 202 202 amendments to amendments, how far admissible reconsideration, when and how the question may be moved reconsideration, at what time to be moved reconsideration, effect of a vote for 196 196, 218 196 196 (rejected) relating to their being brought in dur- ing the same session 197 originating in one house, rejected in the other, may conferences upon, at what stages, and by whom 202 papers relating to, to be left with the conferees of not returned in ten days, to be laws, unless an ad- journment intervene 208 Blanks, longest time, largest sum, first put Page 172 bills may be passed with, and be filled in other House may be filled in engrossed bills construction of the rule for filling Breach of Peace, mode of proceeding on charge of vilege 181 189 180 119 Call of the House, proceedings in case of Bribery, (Randall and Whitney's case) breach of pri- Business, order of, in Senate, a settled order in its arrangement useful Challenge, breach of privilege Chairman of Committee elected of Committee of the Whole, may be elected Change of Vote, right to 115 135 135 126 115 129 132 195 cannot sit in the recess after the Congress has ex- 213 a member elect, though not returned, may be ap- members of the House may be present at their sit- Page Committees, dissolved by a report how revived 157 157 may be discharged from instructions 198 when they may sit during recess effect of a reference to, when a bill has been amend- Committee of the Whole, great matters usually referred to 213 160 131 subjects which have passed through, may be refer- red to special committees particulars which attach to Communications, confidential, to be kept secret Common fame, a ground for proceeding Conferences, common to have two, before vote to adhere 200 cannot alter any thing on which the houses have 159 160 215 140 when, by which House, and at what stage to be 202 Co-existing questions discussed 184 Counsel may be heard on private bills and law points 135 Count of the House may be called 126 (See Division of House.) Covered, when members are not to be 146 Debate, no one to speak impertinently, superfluously, not cut off till both sides of the question be put proceedings of the house not to be censured Page Debate, personalities to be prohibited 141 141 141, 144 143 143 violation of order in, to be suppressed by the speaker disorderly words not to be noticed until the member disorderly words, when taken down proceedings of the other house not to be noticed in 144 of, ought to withdraw Decorum, points of (See Debate) Defamatory publications, breach of privilege Disorder in Committee of the Whole, Speaker to re- sume chair, if great members creating, proceedings Disorderly words, how and when taken down ought not to be shut, to be kept by persons ap- Elections, time, place, and manner of holding 145 144 15 138 142 143 190 182 146' 146 115 121 121 Division of the House, practice in ascertaining Doors, rule respecting their being closed pointed Duel, challenge to, breach of privilege of members to be judged by each house Errers, cannot be corrected in Committee of the Whole 138 House, division of, how ascertained of Representatives.--See Representatives. Impeachment, sketch of the law of Parliament respect- ing Inquiry, or accusation, common fame a ground for 197 206 185 119 146 161 146 190 219 139 185, 200 200 effect of vote to |