[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4 of rule XVI, but a motion before the House may be withdrawn by the 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).