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The call for Order of the Day does not require a second, 

 and cannot be debated or amended, neither can any of the 

 third-class of motions be entertained pending a call for 

 Order of the Day. When the time set for any general or 

 special orders of the day arrives, it matters not what may 

 be before the house The President should announce that the 

 time has arrived for considering them by saying, "Shall 

 the orders of the day be taken up?" If there is no objec- 

 tion the pending business is stopped and the orders taken 

 up, but if there be objection made then the President puts 

 the question to the house without motion, " Shall the orders 

 of the day be taken up?" It is decided by a majority 

 vote, aud if in the negative the order of the day stands 

 postponed till the pending business is disposed of. 



. APPEAL. Is a second class or "incidental" 

 motion. An appeal from the ruling of the President on a 

 point of order is not debatable, but if the ruling is on a 

 question of law it may be debatable. It cannot be amended. 

 It must be seconded. A motion to lay it on the table or a 

 motion to reconsider may be entertained, and a motion for 

 the previous question applies if the appeal is debatable. 

 If a motion to table an appeal prevails it does not affect 

 the ruling from which an appeal was taken; the appeal 

 only is disposed of. 



9. OBJECTION TO CONSIDERING A QUESTION. 

 Second-class. Does not require a second; cannot be 

 debated or amended; cannot have any third-class motion 

 applied to it. Must be made when the question is first 

 introduced or before it is debated, and requires a two- thirds 

 Vote. To make this motion, a member gets the floor in the 

 proper manner and says, 4 ' Mr. President, I object to the 

 consideration of this question." The President then 

 immediately, and without any second, puts the question to 

 the house, "Shall the question be entertained?" If 

 decided in the negative the whole matter is dismissed for 



