...question, (vhich, being ordered by a majority of members present, if a quorum, shall have the effect to cut off all debate and bring the House to a direct...which it has been asked and ordered. The previous questi6n may be asked and ordered upon a single motion, a series of motions allowable under the rules,...

...which, being ordered by a majority of members voting, if a quorum be present, shall have the effect to cut off all debate and bring the House to a direct...upon the immediate question or questions on which it ha* been asked and ordered. The previous question may be asked and ordered upon a single motion, a...

...XVII, clause 1, provides that the effect of the previous question shall be "to cut off all debate aud bring the House to a direct vote upon the immediate...questions on which it has been asked and ordered." (See limitation on this clause in the last paragraph of clause 3 of RULE XXVIII.) If the question of...

...Congressional Record, 1, 48, p. 5543. The effect of the previous question (Rule XVII, clause 1) is "to bring the House to a direct vote upon the immediate...question or questions on which it has been asked and ordered.'7 But of recent years a practice has been tolerated of ordering the previous question on a...

...direct vote upon the immediate question or questions upon which it has been asked or ordered. Tlie previous question may be asked and ordered upon a...motion, a series of motions allowable under the Rules or an amendment or amendments; or it may be made to embrace all authorized motions or amendments and include...