 | Albert Elias Maltby - Pennsylvania - 1910 - 536 pages
...appointment of the standing committees, the Senate, unless otherwise ordered, appoints severally by ballot the chairman of each committee, and then, by one ballot,...same. A majority of the whole number of votes given is necessary to a choice of a chairman of a standing committee, but a plurality of votes will elect... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1911 - 624 pages
...RULE XXIV. APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES. 1 . In the appointment of the standing committees, the Senate, unless otherwise ordered, shall proceed by ballot...majority of the whole number of votes given shall be necessarj' to the choice of a chairman of a standing committee, but a plurality of votes shall elect... | |
 | United States - 1913 - 1128 pages
...the appointment of the standing committees the Senate will proceed, by ballot, severally, to appoint the chairman of each committee, and then, by one ballot,...the other members necessary to complete the same; and a majority of the whole number of votes given shall be necessary to the choice of a chairman of... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - United States - 1919 - 792 pages
...voting?" which shall be decided without debate. In the appointment of the standing committees, the Senate, unless otherwise ordered, shall proceed by ballot...committee, and then, by one ballot, the other members nccessary to complete the same. A ^najority of the whole number of votes given shall be necessary to... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules and Administration - 1971 - 716 pages
...unless otherwiordered, shall proceed by ballot to appoint severally the chairman of each cornmittee, and then, by one ballot, the other members necessary to complete the saire A majority of the whole number of votes given shall be necessary to the choice of i chairman... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1972 - 208 pages
...[Ml RULE XXIV APPOINTMENT OF COMMITTEES 1. In the appointment of the standing committees, the Senate, unless otherwise ordered, shall proceed by ballot...elect the other members thereof. All other committees shah 1 be appointed by ballot, unless otherwise ordered, and a plurality of votes shall appoint. [Jefferson's... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate, Floyd Millard Riddick - 1974 - 1094 pages
...adopted January 11, 1884, and it provides :] In the appointment of the standing committees, the Senate, unless otherwise ordered, shall proceed by ballot...the other members necessary to complete the same. * * * [In practice in recent years, in the absence of any point heing raised, the Senate has proceeded... | |
 | Henry Clay - History - 1468 pages
...each committee; and then, by one ballot, for the other members necessary to complete the same; and a majority of the whole number of votes given shall be necessary to the choice of a chairman." US Sen., Journal, 19 Cong., 2 Sess., p. 27. 5 Cf. above. Clay to Crittenden, December 12, 1826. 6Cf.... | |
 | Elaine K. Swift - History - 2002 - 262 pages
...Senate "proceed by severally appointing the Chairman of each committee, and then by one ballot for the other members necessary to complete the same."...of votes given shall be necessary to the choice of chairman."74 In proposing the first Senate rule to accord special attention to committee chairs, Chambers... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - Parliamentary practice - 1905 - 768 pages
...Grey, 122. [In the Senate. ] Rule XXI V. 1. In the appointment of the standing committees, the Senate, unless otherwise ordered, shall proceed by ballot...of votes shall elect the other members thereof. All otJher committees shall be appointed by ballot, unless otherwise ordered, and a plurality of votes... | |
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Rule 27.] [In the appointment of the standing committees, the Senate will proceed, by ballot, severally to appoint the chairman of each committee; and then, by one ballot, the other members necessary to complete the same... 
