[Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 104th Congress]
[104th Congress]
[House Document 103-342]
[Jeffersons Manual of ParliamentaryPractice]
[Pages 241-242]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]
SEC. XXXVII.--COEXISTING QUESTIONS.
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previous question, postponement, or commitment), remove it from before
the House. But it is only suspended by a motion to amend, to withdraw,
to read papers, or by a question of order or privilege, and stands again
before the House when these are decided. None but the class of
privileged questions can be brought forward while there is another
question before the House, the rule being that when a motion has been
made and seconded, no other can be received except it be a privileged
one.
Sec. 483. Fundamental principles as to coexisting
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It may be asked whether the House can be in possession of two motions
or propositions at the same time? so that, one of them being decided,
the other goes to question without being moved anew? The answer must be
special. When a question is interrupted by a vote of adjournment, it is
thereby removed from before the House, and does not stand ipso facto
before them at their next meeting, but must come forward in the usual
way. So, when it is interrupted by the order of the day. Such other
privileged questions also as dispose of the main question (e.g., the
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The principles of this provision must, of course, be viewed in the
light of a more highly perfected order of business than existed in
Jefferson's time (rule XXIV). The motion to withdraw is not known in the
practice of the House, not being among the motions enumerated in clause
4 of rule XVI, but a motion before the House may be withdrawn by the
mover thereof before a decision is reached (clause 2 of rule XVI).