Manual Constitution of the United States ... with ... amendments ... Jefferson's Manual ... and the standing rules and orders for conducting business in the House of Representative by United States. Congress. House

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virtually an amendment of the rules to impose other duties upon an officer of the House than those already prescribed.— Journal, 1, 31, p. 456.

An amendment reported from the Committee of the Whole From committee

r ... of the Whole or

as an entire amendment is not divisible.—Journals, 1, 28, senate not dw«ip. 1061; 1, 29, pp. 366, 642 ; 1, 30, p. 1059; 2, 30, p. 574. Nor is an amendment of the Senate divisible.—Journal, 2, 32, p. 401.

After a bill has been reported from the Committee of the Additional, after

1 • t report from Com

Whole with amendments, it is in order to submit an additionalmittee of whole.

amendment, but the first question put is upon the amendments

reported.—Journal, 1, 29, p. 865. If, in Committee of the where, in com

r . I mittee of Whole,

Whole an amendment is adopted, and subsequently, the para- p"a|raDhd J"1graph as amended is struck out, the amendment striking out >**"*. outis the only one to be reported to the House. And if the latter is voted down in the House, the first amendment is not thereby revived.—Journal, 2, 31, p. 346.

No appropriation shall be reported in a general appropri- Too gfntf>,b.,a.p" ation bill, or be in order as an amendment thereto, for any expenditure not previously authorized by law, unless in continuation of appropriations for such public works and objects as are already in progress, and for the contingencies for carrying on the several departments of the government.— Rule 120. [This rule, so far as relates to amendments offered, is usually enforced with much strictness, but an instance is not known where the Committee of the Whole has ever ruled out any portion of a bill as reported from the Committee of Ways and Means, although containing provisions in violation of said rule.]

(See Appropriation Bills.)

"The House may at any time, on motion seconded by a Debate may be

i i ii i , closed on, with

majority oi the members present, close all debate upon a out precluding pending amendment, or an amendment thereto, and cause the question to be put thereon; and this shall not preclude any further amendment or debate upon the bill."—Rule 132.

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