HULKS OF ORDER. 3(53 



DIVISION <>F T1IK QUESTION. 



1. A question which contains more parts than one may be divided, on 

 the demand of a member, provided tlie main body concur. If the question 

 contain parts which are evidently incompatible, tlie presiding officer may 

 divide them of his own will, unless the body deny him the power. 



2. When a question is divided, after the question has been taken on the 

 first member of it, the second member is still open to amendment and de- 

 bate, unless the previous question be taken upon it. 



COEXISTING QUESTIONS. 



1. Occasionally there are two questions up at the same time one prim- 

 arily, and the other secondarily. Are both subject to debate ? 



J. When it has been moved to commit a question, the main question is 

 debatable under that motion ; but no amendment can be entertained, be- 

 cause the question of commitment will be first put. 



EQUIVALENT QUESTIONS. 



Where questions are equivalent, so that the rejection of one is the af- 

 firming of the other, that necessarily determines the latter. Thus, a vote 

 inst striking out is virtually the same as a vote to agree ; a vote to 

 <-t is equivalent to a vote to adopt ; but, on a motion to strike out A 

 and insert B being decided in the negative, this does not preclude the 

 motion to strike out A and insert C, these being separate questions. 



THE QUESTION. 



1. The question is first to be put on the affirmative, and then on the 

 negative MoV. 



1' At't.-r the question has lieeii put, di-liate upon it is out of order; but 

 after the presiding ollicer has put tin- allirmativ.-. any member who has 

 .n hefon- on the question may speak before the ne^a 1 j-ut, 



for it is not a full question until the negative lie put. 



M trilling m.r ich as leave to brinij in repori nnit- 



withdrawing n, og paperSj and such like, the consent 



main h^ly will be .supposed without the formality of a question, 

 unless & diould . Absence of an ol .n such 



Cases te.stifi.-s t , unanimous 



