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ADDRESS TO THE PRESIDENT-ADJOURN, MOTION TO.

ADDRESS TO THE PRESIDENT.

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sented, by whom,

"Whenever the Senate and House of Representatives shall where to be prejudge it proper to make a joint address to the President, it &c. shall be presented to him in his audience-chamber by the President of the Senate in the presence of the Speaker and both houses."-Joint Rule 11.

ADHERE, MOTION TO.

tions on amend

the two houses.

question on.

The questions respecting amendments from another house One of the quesare: 1st, to agree; 2d, disagree; 3d, recede; 4th, insist; ments between 5th, adhere―Manuals, p. 110—and take precedence in that Order in putting order. Journals, 1, 23, p. 229; 1, 34, p. 1516 to 1518. "In the ordinary parliamentary course, there are two free Usually at least conferences, at least, before an adherence"-Manual, p. before adher122-and sometimes three or four.-Journals, 1, 34, p. 943; 1, 35, p. 1136. Although "either house is free to pass over the term of insisting, and to adhere in the first instance; but it is not respectful to the other."-Manual, p. 122.

two conferences

ence.

one house ad

A conference may take place after a vote of adherence by Conference after one house.-Journals, 1, 3, pp. 281, 283; 2, 3, p. 254; 1, heres. 34, pp. 1600, 1602; 1, 35, pp. 604, 615, 620; Senate Journal, Jan. 20, 1834; Manual, p. 125.

adheres, bill, &c., lost.

"After each house shall have adhered to their disagree- After each house ment, a bill or resolution shall be lost."-Joint Rule 15. (See AMENDMENTS BETWEEN THE TWO HOUSES and CONFERENCE COMMITTEES.)

ADJOURN, MOTION TO.

day of next meet

order.

"A motion to adjourn, and a motion to fix the day to And to fix the which the House shall adjourn, shall be always in order, and ing always in these motions shall be decided without debate."--Rule 44. Not debatable. It has been decided and acted upon that the motion "to fix the day to which the House shall adjourn" takes precedence Motion to fix the of a motion "to adjourn;" the reason being that, before the dence of. Unless House adjourns, it is proper to fix the time to which it shall sent. adjourn-Note to same rule-but when less than a quorum is present, no motion can be entertained, except to adjourn, or

day takes prece

no quorum pre

Cannot be made while another

ing, unless he

for a call of the House.-Journal, 1, 29, p. 356, and Const., 1, 5, 8. [Consequently, at such a time, the motion to adjourn would take precedence.]

"A motion for adjournment cannot be made while another member is speak- is speaking."-Manual, p. 81. [But, according to the yields for. practice, a member speaking may yield for a motion to adjourn, or that the committee rise, without losing his right to the floor when the subject is resumed.]

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while voting on

another tion.

ended.

"Nor can a motion to adjourn be received after another ques question is actually put, and while the House is actually engaged in voting."--Manual, p. 94.

am

Cannot be "A motion to adjourn, simply, cannot be amended, as by adding to a particular day,' but must be put simply 'that this House do now adjourn;' and if carried in the affirmative, it is adjourned to the next sitting day, unless it has come to a previous resolution, that at its rising it will adjourn to a particular day,' and then the House is adjourned to that day."-Manual, p. 131.

When may be re- A motion to adjourn may be repeated, although no ques

peated.

Hour of making

to be entered on Journal.

tion has been put or decided since the former motion—Journal, 1, 23, p. 651--but there must have been some intervening business.--Ibid., 1, 31, p. 1092. [Another motion submitted, progress in debate or reading a paper by the Clerk, an order of the yeas and nays, &c., has been considered such "intervening business as will authorize a repetition of the motion to adjourn.]

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"The hour at which every motion to adjourn is made shall be entered on the Journal."-Rule 45.

Motion to fix the A motion to fix the hour to which the House shall adjourn

hour to which

adjourn.

the House shall does not take precedence of a motion to adjourn―Journal, 1, 29, p. 186—and can only be made when resolutions are in order-Journal, 1, 29, p. 933—[or under a suspension of the rules when in order.]

nounces it.

No adjournment "If a question be put for adjournment, it is no adjourntill Speaker pro- ment till the Speaker pronounces it."-Manual, p. 131. Legislative day There must be an adjournment before the legislative day does not end un will terminate-Journal, 1, 33, p. 804-and an adjournment does not take place by reason of the arrival of the time for the regular daily meeting of the House. Ibid., pp. 804,

til an adjourn

ment.

ADJOURNMENT, SINE DIE-AGRICULTURE, COMMITTEE ON.

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811. And an adjournment does not necessarily take place at 12 o'clock a. m. on Sunday, nor is it against order for a majority to continue in session after the said hour, it being a question which must be left to be decided by the judgment For the House to and discretion of the House itself.—Journal, 1, 24, pp. 577, it shall adjourn. 582.

determine when

journ of itself for

"Neither house, during the session of Congress, shall, House cannot adwithout the consent of the other, adjourn for more than more than three three days, nor to any other place than that in which the two houses shall be sitting."-Const., 1, 5, 9.

days.

may adjourn two

"In case of disagreement between them with respect to When President the time of adjournment, the President may adjourn the houses. two houses to such time as he may think proper."—Ibid., 2, 3, 18.

ADJOURNMENT, SINE DIE.

tion for.

The adjournment of a session (other than that which ter- Form of resoluminates with the expiration of the term of service of the members) is provided for by the joint vote of the two houses, and usually in the following form: "Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives be authorized to close the present session by adjourning their respective houses on the at o'clock

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place.

And upon the arrival of that day and hour, or the hour of when 12 o'clock m. of the 4th of March of each alternate year, when, by the usage, the last session of a Congress terminates, the Speaker (either on or without motion) pronounces the House adjourned sine die.-Journals, 1, 28, p. 1362; 1, 33, p. 1345; 1, 35, p. 1148; 2, 32, p. 431; 3, 34, p. 691; 2, 35, p. 625.

AGENTS FOR CLAIMS.

(See CLAIM AGENTS.)

AGRICULTURE, COMMITTEE ON.

takes

There shall be appointed at the commencement of each When appointed, Congress a Committee on Agriculture, to consist of nine

members.-Rule 74.

and its number.

Duties of.

[No duties are assigned to the Committee on Agriculture by the rules.]

AMENDMENT.

Precedence

motion to amend.

of When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, to lie on the table, for the previous question, to postpone to a day certain, to commit or amend, to postpone indefinitely; which several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they are arranged.-Rule 42. A motion to strike out the enacting words of a bill takes precedence of a motion to amend.-Rule 123.-(See ENACTING WORDS, MOTION TO STRIKE out.)

Motion to strike out enacting words.

a bill.

When in order to A bill cannot be amended on the first reading.—Manual, p. 83. [Indeed, it has become the settled practice of the House not to receive an amendment to a House bill except when the question is on its engrossment, and to a Senate bill except when the question is on ordering it to a third reading.]

Not cut off by If the motion to amend is pending when a demand for

previous ques

tion.

An amendment to only in order.

the previous question is made, it is not cut off by the order of the previous question.-Rule 132.

An amendment may be moved to an amendment, but it is not admitted in another degree.-Manual, p. 100. [But it

is the well-settled practice of the House that there may be pending at the same time with such amendment to the amendBut there may ment, an amendment in the nature of a substitute for part or ment (in nature the whole of the original text, and an amendment to that amendment to it. amendment.-(See Journal, 1, 31, pp. 1074, 1075.) It was

be also an amend

of substitute) and

decided many years ago that if the motion to amend the original matter was first submitted, it was not then in order to submit an amendment in the nature of a substituteJournal, 1, 19, p. 794; but it was subsequently decided otherwise-Journal, 1, 28, p. 807-and the practice ever since has been in accordance with the latter decision. So now, notwithstanding the pendency of a motion to amend an amendment to the original matter, a motion to amend, in the nature of a substitute, and a motion to amend that amendment may

be received, but cannot be voted upon until the original matter is perfected.]

of

Senate's amend

An amendment of the House to a Senate amendment is Amendment only in the first degree; for, as to the Senate, the first amend- ment. ment with which they passed the bill is a part of its text; it is the only text they have agreed to.—Manual, p. 123.—(See AMENDMENTS BETWEEN THE HOUSES.)

posed to be in

may be

first amended.

"When it is proposed to amend by inserting a paragraph, Paragraph proor part of one, the friends of the paragraph may make it as serted perfect as they can, by amendments, before the question is put for inserting it. If it be received, it cannot be amended afterwards, in the same stage, because the House has, on a vote, agreed to it in that form.”—Manual, p. 104. But an But amendment which has been inserted may be added to.- adding to. Journal, 1, 19, p. 794.

not afterwards, except by

part of original

ding it.

Although it is not in order to strike out by itself what has or striking out been inserted, it may be moved to strike out a portion of the paragraph incluoriginal paragraph, comprehending what has been inserted, provided the coherence to be struck out be so substantial as to make this effectively a different proposition.-Manual,

p. 106.

posed to be struck

amended.

If it is proposed to amend by striking out a paragraph, Paragraph prothe friends of the paragraph are first to make it as perfect out may be first as they can, by amendments, before the question is put for striking it out.—Manual, p. 105. But (contrary to the parliamentary practice), if on the question it be retained, neither Motion to strike amendment nor a motion to strike out and insert shall be precluded thereby, and a motion to strike out and insert is To strike out and indivisible. Rule 46.-(See STRIKE OUT, MOTION TO.) After a proposition is amended it cannot be withdrawn. No withdrawal Rule 40.

out failing.

insert indivisible.

after.

of, after previous

ed.

A motion to amend cannot be modified after the previous No modification question is seconded-Journal, 1, 28, p. 811-[doubtless for question secondthe reason that the pendency of the particular amendment may be the inducement for seconding the previous question.]

for, loses floor.

If a member yields the floor to another to offer an amend- Member yielding ment, as he may do, the member yielding loses his right to reoccupy it.-Journal, 1, 26, p. 248.

An amendment proposing to ingraft a general provision Proposing a gene

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