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INDEX TO JEFFERSON'S MANUAL.

Address, how presented

Adhere, question discussed

effect of a vote to

A.

should be two conferences before vote to

Adjournment, motion for, cannot be amended...
rules and regulations in respect to..
a question is removed by.

of the session, all unfinished business falls
of the session, modes and manner discussed
to be declared by the Speaker..
effect of, on business depending

Amendment to bills, (see also Bills) ........

proceedings in relation to..
how to be reported

Page.

60

82

88

88

92

92

82

87

92, 93

92 90,93

71

68

70

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Amendment, may totally change the subject

if House refuse to strike out a paragraph, it cannot be
amended....

78, 79

79

a new bill may be ingrafted on another.

79

mode of proceeding on amendments between the houses
proposed, inconsistent with one adopted may be put
may be amended prior to adoption, but not after.
(proposed,) by striking out, and lost, the paragraph proposed
to be stricken out cannot be amended..

87,88

78

79

79

not identical or equivalent to one lost may be proposed
by insertion, how far liable to further amendment...

Apportionment of Representatives, table of

Arrest, definition of privilege from...

terminates with the session

Assault and affrays in the House, how settled

Assent to bills by the Executive, regulations respecting..
Ayes and noes, how questions are determined by.

no member to vote if not present

65, 66

91 84-86

85

79

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58,59

54-56

67

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one house may pass with blanks and be filled in the other..

80

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amendments between the houses, mode of proceeding

by whom to be taken from house to house

may be specially commended to notice of the other house...
rejected, course to be pursued...

if one house neglects a bill, the other may remind of it....
how to be enrolled, signed, and presented to the President
amendments to, cannot be receded from or insisted on by the
amending house with a further amendment....

83

83

67

68

68

68

68

68, 72

68, 69

69

69

69

87,88

90

90

90

90

91

87,88

amendment to an amendment has precedence over a motion to
agree or disagree...

88

amendments to amendments, how far admissible..
proceedings upon, in Committee of the Whole, &c
titles, when made....

88

71

86

reconsideration, when and how the question may be moved.....
rejected, relating to their being brought in during the same ses-
sion

originating in one house, rejected in the other, may be renewed
in the rejecting house

expedients for remedying omissions in..

86, 87

86

86

87

siness, order of..

a settled order in its arrangement useful....

C.

all of the House, proceedings in case of.... hallenge, breach of privilege

hairman of committee elected.

of Committee of the Whole may be elected..

Change of vote, right to......

Clerk puts questions before election of Speaker.. to read standing....

numbers the sections

may correct his errors....

Committees cannot inquire concerning their members

must not sit when House is in session...

may elect chairman.

manner of proceeding in..

cannot reconsider or alter their own votes.

how they report amendments.....

cannot sit in the recess after the Congress has ex

a member elect, though not returned, may be ap standing....

forms and proceedings in.

joint, how they act

who shall compose.

time and place of meeting

majority of, to constitute a quorum.

members of the House may be present at their s their power over a bill...

Committees have entire control of a report recommitted dissolved by a report......

how revived......

may be discharged from instructions...

when they may sit during recess

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Committee of the Whole, great matters usually referred to
may elect their chairman.

Speaker may resume chair if great disorder....
proceedings in............

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Common fame a ground for proceeding..

Conferences, common, to have two, before vote to adhere...

cannot alter anything on which the houses have agreed...
discussion of the nature and occasion of......

report of, cannot be amended or altered...

papers left with conferees of house agreeing to..............
when, by which house, and what stages to be asked.

Co-existing questions discussed

Counsel may be heard on private bills and law points..
Count of the House may be called, (see Division of House)
Covered, when members are not to be......

D.

Debate, no one to speak impertinently, superfluously, or tediously. not cut off till both sides of the question be put....

forms and proprieties to be observed in.........

the Speaker not allowed to engage in, except on points of order.
proceedings of the House not to be censured..

personalities to be prohibited..

motives not to be arraigned

violation of order in, to be suppressed by the Speaker.....

disorderly words not to be noticed until the member has fin-
ished...

disorderly words, when taken down....

proceedings of the other house not to be noticed in..

members concerned or implicated by the subject of, ought to
withdraw..

Decorum, (see Debate)..

Defamatory publications, breach of privilege

Disorder in Committee of the Whole, Speaker to resume chair if great....

members creating, proceedings..

Disorderly words, how and when taken down...

Division of the House, practice in ascertaining..

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