 | United States. Congress. House - Parliamentary practice - 1908 - 792 pages
...preference as follows: When a question is pending, no motion, shall be received bvt — To adjourn. To take a recess. To proceed to the consideration...several motions shall have precedence as they stand (twanged; and the motions relating to adjournment, to take a • recess, to proceed to th-e consideration... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1909 - 598 pages
...to amend is at the foot of the list, and preceding it, in the order of acceptance, are the motions to adjourn; to adjourn to a day certain, or that when...postpone indefinitely: to postpone to a day certain; and to commit. The first organized Senate fairly reversed this order. In the rules it first adopted,... | |
 | Wisconsin - 1909 - 1296 pages
...rule Is now as follows : [When a question Is under debate, no motion shall be made but to artjoum, to lay on the table, to postpone Indefinitely, to postpone to a day certain, to com mit or to amend : which several motions shall have precedence In the order they stand arranged,... | |
 | National Council of the Congregational Churches of the United States, National council of the Congretional churches of the United States - 1910 - 436 pages
...modifications: N 1. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received except: to adjourn, to lay on the table, to postpone indefinitely, to postpone to a time certain, to commit, to amend, — which motions shall have precedence in the order named, and,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1911 - 624 pages
...shall not be withdrawn without leave. [Jefferson's Manual, Sec. XX. RULE XXII. PRECKDENCE OF MOTIONS. When a question is pending, no motion shall be received...To lay on the table. To postpone indefinitely. To commit. To amend. Which several motions shall have precedence as they stand arranged; and the motions... | |
 | North Carolina - 1911 - 332 pages
...which several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they stand arranged; and no motion to lay on the table, to postpone indefinitely, to postpone to a day certain, to commit or amend, being decided. shall be again allowed on the same day and at the same stage of the bill or... | |
 | Amsterdam (N.Y.) Common council - 1912 - 184 pages
...under consideration, no motion shall be received, unless for adjournment, for the previous question, to lay on the table, to postpone indefinitely, to postpone to a certain time, to refer or to amend, and shall have precedence In the order herein arranged — the... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Rules - 1913 - 652 pages
...shall not be withdrawn without leave. [Jeffersonis Manual, Sec. XX. RULE XXII. PRECEDENCE OF MOTIONS. When a question is pending, no motion shall be received...To lay on the table. To postpone indefinitely. To commit. To amend. Which several motions shall have precedence as they stand arranged; and the motions... | |
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... to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or to amend; which several motions shall have precedence in the order they stand arranged, and the motion for adjournment shall always be in order, and be decided without debate. 
