 PREVIOUS QUESTION When any question is before the House, any member may move a previous question whether that question (called the main question) shall now be put. If it pass in the affirmative, then the main question is to be put immediately, and no...  United States Congressional Serial Set - Page 1491918Full view - About this book
 | Parliamentary practice - 1826 - 220 pages
...PREVIOUS QUESTION. When any question is before the house, any member may move a previous question, "Whether that question (called the main question)...question is to be put immediately, and no man may speak any thing further to it, either to add or alter. Mem. in Hakew. 28. 4 Grey 27. The previous question,... | |
 | Joel Barlow Sutherland - Parliamentary practice - 1830 - 404 pages
...PREVIOUS QUESTION. When any question is before the house, any member may move a previous question, ' whether that question (called the main question) shall...question is to be put immediately, and no man may speak any thing further to it, either to add or alter. Memor. in Hakew. 28. 4 Grey, 27. The previous question... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1834 - 708 pages
...for the previous question, or for postponing the main question, or to commit it, or to adjourn. IX. The previous question being moved and seconded, the question from the chair shall be: "Shall the main question be now put'" And if the nays prevail, the main question shall not then be... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1834 - 640 pages
...adjourn. X. If a question in debate contain several points, any member may have the same divided. IX. The previous question being moved and seconded, the question from the chair shall be : " Shall the inain question be now put?" And if the nays prevail, the main question shall not then... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1837 - 202 pages
...PREVIOUS QUESTION. When any question is before the House, any member may move a previous question, " Whether that question (called the main question) shall...question is to be put immediately, and no man may speak any thing further to -it, either to add or alter. — Memor. in Hakew. 28—4 Grey, 27. The previous... | |
 | Constitutions - 1837 - 240 pages
...may be asked and put to the question. SEC. XXXIV. — THE PREVIOUS QUESTION. man may speak any thing further to it, either to add or alter. Memor. in Hakew....and seconded, the question from the chair shall be, " Shall the main question be now put ?" and if the nays prevail, the main question shall not then be... | |
 | Joel Barlow Sutherland - 1841 - 560 pages
...PREVIOUS QUESTION. When any question is before the House, any member may move a previous question, " whether that question (called the main question) shall...question is to be put immediately, and no man may speak any thing further to it, either to add or alter. Memor. in Hakew. 28. 4 Grey, 27. the main question... | |
 | Joel Barlow Sutherland - 1841 - 530 pages
...may move a previous question, " whether that question (called the main question) shall now be putt" If it pass in the affirmative, then the main question is to be put immediately, and no man may speak any thing further to it, either to add or alter. Mentor, in Hakew. 28. 4 Grey, 27. The previous question... | |
 | Joseph Bartlett Burleigh - Parliamentary practice - 1853 - 354 pages
...PREVIOUS QUESTION. WREN any question is before the House, any member may move a previous question, ' Whether that question (called the main question) shall...question is to be put immediately, and no man may speak any thing further to it, either to add or alter. [Memor. in Hakew. 28. 4 Grey, 27.] This kind of question... | |
 | New York (State). Secretary's Office - New York (State) - 1853 - 476 pages
...PREVIOUS QUESTION. When any question is before the House, any member may move a previous question, " Whether that question (called the main question) shall...question is to be. put immediately, and no man may speak any thing further to it, either to add or alter. — Manor, in Hakew, 28 — i Grey, 27. The previous... | |
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