PARLIAMENTARY LAW 



-l.-.lii PARLOW 



Motions. All business is introduced by nto- 

 tiun*. \ member desiring to bring any matter 

 before the society should rise and address the 

 chair as "Mr. President," or "Madame Pr 



Phe j. resident then recognixes the mem- 

 ber by calling his name, and he "has the floor." 

 He then makes his motion and is seated. Be- 

 fore the motion can be acted upon it must be 

 and this can be done by any mem- 

 ber without leaving hi< Bert or addressing the 

 chair. After the motion is seconded, the JMVM- 

 dent restates it to the society, and it is "before 

 ' for action. Debate is then in order; 

 if there is no debate the motion is voted upon 

 at once. If the debate continues too long any 

 member may bring it to an end by the call of 

 "Question." 



Classes of Motions. A motion made for the 

 purpose of securing action on any matter con- 

 stitutes the main question, or the principal mo- 

 tion, and any other motions made for the pur- 

 pose of modifying the principal motion are 

 known as uhxi<i/<try motions. The most com- 

 mon form of the subsidiary motion is the 

 tihmnt. For instance, A moves that the 

 secretary be instructed to purchase a book in 

 which to keep the records of the society, the 

 cost not to exceed three dollars. B moves to 

 amend the original motion by limiting the cost 

 to two dollars. C moves to amend the amend- 

 ment by limiting the cost to one dollar and 

 nts. 



Here we have two subsidiary motions. How 

 he president to dispose of them? The 

 answer is very simple. He must have the so- 

 ciety vote on them in the reverse order in 

 which they were made. First, the amendment 

 to the amendment is voted on, then the amend- 

 ment as amended. If both amendments fail, 

 the final vote is on the original motion; if the 

 amendments carry, the final vote is on the 

 original question as amended. 



Only one principal motion or main question 

 can be before tin house at one time. Had I> 

 moved that the society proceed to secure a 

 lecturer before A's motion and its second had 

 been disposed of, he would have been out of 

 order, and the president would have refused to 

 put his motion. 



Privileged Questions. As a rule when a ques- 

 tion is before the house it has the right of 

 way. Debate upon it cannot be stopped nor can 

 any other main question cause it to be set 

 aside. There are, however, certain questions 

 which take precedence over the main question. 

 These are: 



To adjourn 



To lay tin- question on tin- table 



To t.ikr a iv. 



Quest inns of privilege 



The previous question 



When any of the above motions is made, action 

 on the main question must be set aside until 

 the disposal of the subsidiary question. None 

 of these five questions or motions is debatable. 

 The previous question mean* that debate be 

 clo-cd and vote on tin 1 main question be taken, 

 and it requires a two-thirds vote to be carried. 



A motion to adjourn to a definite time or to 

 the call of the chair is debatable. A motion to 

 adjourn cannot be made while a speaker has 

 the floor, but it may be made while action on 

 the main question is pending. 



Points of Order. Whenever a member wishes 

 to call another member to order he rises and 

 says, "Mr. President, I rise to a point of order." 

 He then states his point. The president then 

 decides whether or not the point is sustained. 

 The chief violations of points of order consist 

 in making motions when a principal motion is 

 before the house, using unparliamentary lan- 

 guage in debate, or talking upon subjects not 

 pertinent. W.F.K. 



Consult Roberts' Rules of Order; Fox's I'ar- 

 liamcntary Usage; Reed's Rules; Cushing's 

 Manual of Parliamentary Practice. The first 

 named is more widely used than any other par- 

 liamentary guide. 



PARLOW, pahr'lo, [MARY] KATHLEEN (1890- 

 ), a Canadian violinist, who first won fame 

 as a youthful prodigy, but later developed into 

 a mature artist of commanding powers. Miss 

 Parlow is generally recognized as the greatest 

 Canadian violinist and the greatest woman 

 violinist of her generation. The honor of being 

 her native city falls to Calgary, which was in 

 1890 a settlement of a few hundred people, 

 hardly the sort of community which one would 

 expect to produce one of the world's great mu- 

 sicians. When Miss Parlow was five years old 

 she removed with her parents to San Francisco, 

 where she received her first musical instruction. 

 She made such rapid progress that her teacher 

 took her to London in 1905 and exhibited her 

 as a youthful prodigy. 



After a few months of such exhibitions the 

 fifteen-year-old girl became disgusted. Her love 

 for music, however, was revived when she first 

 heard Mischa Elman play. Under the stimu- 

 lus of this other genius, she went to Petrojrrad 

 to study with Leopold Auer, who had been Kl- 

 man's teacher. At Petrograd, in 1908, she 

 made her debut as a mature artist. Her re- 



