    [Constitution, Jefferson's Manual, and the Rules of the House of Representatives, 106th Congress]
    [106th Congress]
    [House Document 105-358]
    [Jeffersons Manual of ParliamentaryPractice]
    [Pages 246-247]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

                        sec. xxxvii--coexisting questions

    [[Page 247]]

    question is interrupted by a vote of adjournment, it is thereby removed
    from before the House, and does not stand ipso facto before them at
    their next meeting, but must come forward in the usual way. So, when it
    is interrupted by the order of the day. Such other privileged questions
    also as dispose of the main question (e.g., the previous question,
    postponement, or commitment), remove it from before the House. But it is
    only suspended by a motion to amend, to withdraw, to read papers, or by
    a question of order or privilege, and stands again before the House when
    these are decided. None but the class of privileged questions can be
    brought forward while there is another question before the House, the
    rule being that when a motion has been made and seconded, no other can
    be received except it be a privileged one.

    Sec. 483. Fundamental principles as to coexisting
    questions.

      It may be  asked whether the House can be in possession of two motions
    or propositions at the same time? so that, one of them being decided,
    the other goes to question without being moved anew? The answer must be
    special. When a

      The principles of this provision must, of course, be viewed in the
    light of a more highly perfected order of business than existed in
    Jefferson's time (rule XIV). The motion to withdraw is not known in the
    practice of the House, not being among the motions enumerated in clause
    4 of rule XVI, but a motion before the House may be withdrawn by the
    mover thereof before a decision is reached (clause 2 of rule XVI).