200 HISTORY OF THE WHEEL AND ALLIANCE. 



When a meeting convenes with neither President nor 

 Vice-President it is the duty of the Secretary to call the 

 house to order and request them to elect a President 

 pro tern. An appointment or election pro tern expires 

 with the first adjournment thereafter. When a called 

 session convenes it is the duty of the Secretary to state 

 that it is a called meeting and read the call. 



A meeting is only the assembling of the membership 

 one time, as is usual in the subordinate bodies that have 

 regular meetings in which all the business is transacted 

 before an adjournment. A session may have one or more 

 meetings, as the County, State or National bodies, which, 

 when assembled, have several days' work to perform, and 

 hold adjourned meetings from time to time till it is 

 finished. All these meetings taken together comprise 

 the session. The single meeting of the subordinate body 

 is also a session. 



The President should rise to put a question, but may 

 state it sitting. He should always refer to himself in the 

 third person, as "the Chair decides," 'etc., not "I 

 decide, n or "your humble servant believes," etc. A 

 motion referring especially to the President should be put 

 to vote by the Vice-President. The Secretary should 

 hand to each Chairman of a committee a list of the com- 

 mitteemen and a written statement of the business they 

 are to perform. If it is found, even after the President 

 has announced the result of a vote, that a member arose 

 and addressed the Chair before the negative was put, he 

 is entitled to be heard, and if he has a right to the floor 

 and discusses the question on its merits, the vote had 

 counts for nothing and the question is in the same condi- 

 tion as if no vote had been taken. 



The maker of a motion may vote against his own 

 motion, but he cannot speak against it. 



