Sec. 393. Interruptions of the Member having the
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It might be asked whether a motion for adjournment or for the
orders of the day can be made by one Member while another is speaking?
It can not. When two Members offer to speak, he who rose first is to be
heard, and it is a breach of order in another to interrupt him, unless
by calling him to order if he departs from it. And the question of order
being decided, he is still to be heard through. A call for adjournment,
or for the order of the day, or for the question, by gentlemen from
their seats, is <> not a motion. No motion
can be made without rising and addressing the Chair. Such calls are
themselves breaches of order, which, though the Member who has risen may
respect, as an expression of impatience of the House against further
debate, yet, if he chooses, he has a right to go on.
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