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BULKS OF ORDER. 361 



and amendments are not in order. Jefferson thinks that even if the ques- 

 tion be divided, and taken first on the striking out, and that fails, amend- 

 ments are in order, because the proposition is only half put. There is force 

 in this, and it seems to be the practice. 



1 After the paragraph is amended, it neverthd. -s may be further 

 amended by striking it entirely out. 



PRIVILEGED QUESTIONS. 



1. " When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to 

 adjourn, to lay on the table, to postpone indefinitely, to postpone to a day 

 certain, to commit, or to amend ; which several motions shall have prece- 

 dence in the order they stand arranged ; and the motion to adjourn shall 

 be always in order, and shall be decided without debate." 



2. These privileged questions shall not only be entertained while the 

 main question is pending, but will be put before it. 



3. A motion to adjourn takes precedence of all others, because otherwise 

 the body might be kept sitting against its will, and indefinitely. Yet even 

 this question cannot be entertained after another question is actually put. 

 and while members are voting upon it. 



4. An order of the day that is, a question which has previously been 

 set down to be argued or determined on that day takes precedence of all 



>tions except adjournment. If, for instance, a matter be set down for 

 seven o'clock, then at that hour, although another question may be before 

 the body, a motion to proceed to take up the order of the day must be 

 received by the chair. 



5. These privileged questions sometimes conflict with each other, but are 

 reconciled under known rules. 



f. If the previous question be first moved, it is first put. This cu 

 all the others. The society, having decided to take the question, must 

 vote on it as it stands postponement, commitment, an 1 amendment b. 

 f order. 



7. Ef postponement be carried, of course the question cannot he either 



imitted, amendi-d, nor the previous question be carried, for the subject 

 .<>t before the body. 



8. If Commit ted, the same rule^ an-1 follow. 



!>. If amendment moved, tin- question on that m<i>t I..- determin- 



ed be I'., re the pi-,.\ i,,us question. 



1<>. If amendment and post ponemcnf arc p: (he latter is put 



fir>t. The reason IB, that the amendment is not suppressed, but comes up 

 again in its order win-never the main quest inn i- I 



