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when a queftinn is pvt, Oia!I vote on the one
fide or the other, unless the House, for fpeci
a] reasons, fhail excuse him.
When a motion is made and seconded, it
fliali be stated by the Speaker, or being in
writing, it lhall be handed to tbe Chair, and
read aloud by the Clerk before debated.
Every motion shall be reduced to writing,
jf the Speaker or any Member de/ire it.
After a motion is dated by the Speaker, or
read by the Clerk, it Chall be deemed to be in
porteHton of the House, but may be withdrawn
at any time before decilioti or amendment.
When a question is under debate, no mo
tion lhall be received, unless to amend it, for
the previous question, or to adjourn.
A motion to adjourn lhail be always in or
der, and shall be decided without debate.
The previous question (hall be in this f irm :
« Shall the main question be now put. ’ It
shall only be admitted when demanded by
five Members; and until it i 3 decided, shall
preclude all amendment, and further debate
of the main question.
On a previous question, no Member shall
speak more than once without leave.
Any Member rnay call for the division of
a question, where the sense will admit of it.
A motion for commitment until it is de
cided, lhall preclude all amendments of the
main question.
Motions and reports may be committed at
the pleasure of the House.
No new motion or proposition shall be ad
mitted #nder colour of amendment, as a sub
stitute for the motion or proposition under de
bate.
Committees confiding of more than three
Members, shall be ballotted for by the House ;
if, upon furh billot, the number requiied
shall not be elefled by a majority ot the votes
given, tbe House lhall proceed to a second
ballot, in which a plurality of votes lhall
prevail, and in case a greater number than are
required to tompofe or complete the
committee finll have an equal number of
vo cs, the House shall proceed to further bal
lot ot ballots.
In all other cases of ballot than for commit
tees, a majority of the votes given lhall be
neceftary to an election, and when there shall
not he fucli majority on the firft ballot, the
ballot fliali be repeated until a majority be
obtained.
In all cases where others than Members
of the House may be eligible, there lhall be
a previous nomination.'
If a question depending be loft by adjourn
ment of the House, and revived on the suc
ceeding day, no Member who has spoken
twice on the preceding day (ball be permitted
again to speak without leave.
Every order, resolution nr vote, to which
the concurrence of the Senate lhall be necef
favy, shall be read to the House, and laid on
the table, on a day preceding that in which
the fame lhall be moved, unless the House
fliali otherwise exprcfslv allow.
Tefitions, memorials, and other papers
addrefl'ed to the House lhall he presented
th-ough the Speaker, or by a Member in
bis place, and (ball not be debated or decid
ed on the day of their being firft read, un
less where the House lhall diretf otherwise *,
bo 'had lie on the table to be taken up in
the barrier they were read.
Any fifteen Members (including tbe
Speaker if theie is one) shall be amhorifed
to compel the attendance of abfer.t Members.
Upon calls of the House, or in taking the
ayes and noes on any cueft ion. the names of
the Members shall he called alphabetically.
Thirdly. —Of g;// s
Every b;.l f!?a»l he introduced bv motion
for leave, or by, an order of the House on
tbe repor* of a committee, and in either case
a committee to prepaid the some dial! > e ap
pointed. In calcs of a gentr-l na tuv s ore
days notice at Icaft ft,all he given ,f the roti
on to bring in a bill 5 and every fucli moti
on may b? committed.
bvery hi! /hall receive three several read
ings in the Hotife previous to its patlage; and
all bills shall be difpafched in order as they
weie introduced,, unless where the House
lhail <Wt other wife, bm no hill ft,all he
tw.ee lead on ,he lame day, without special
1 •’« fi'ft reading of a hill ft, a !J he for in.
.ormanon, and if oppofitio,, he made to it,
,he be, ” bh.ll ,hc bill he
jested ?’* If no opposition be made, or the
question to rejeft it be negatived, the bill
shall go to its fecoud reading without a ques
tion.
Upon the second reading of a bill, the
Speaker (hall date it as ready for commit
ment or engroflment, ! and if committed,
then a question (hall be whether to a felefl
committee,' Sr to a committee ,of the whole
Monfe ; if to a committee of the whole House,
the House (hall determine on what day. But
if the bill be ordered to be engrofied, the
House (hall appoint the day when it (ball be
read the third time. After commitment,
and a report thereof to the House, a hill m2y
be re-committed, or at any time before its
padage.
All hills ordered to be engreffed shall be
executed in a fair round hand.
The enafting style of bills (hall be, u Beit
enaded by the Senators and Representatives of
the United States in Congress allembled.”
When a bill lhall paf6 it (liali be certified by
the clerk, noting the day of its palling at'fhe
loot thereof.
No bill amended by th 6 Senate shall be
committed.
Fourthly. —Of cormi'tecs of the mo bole House.
It shall be a (landing Order of the day,
throughout the fefiiun, for the House to re
solve itfelf into a committee of the whole
House, on the Rate of the Union.
In forming a committee of the whole
House, the Speaker lhall leave his chair, and
a chairman to preside in committee (hall be
appointed.
Upon bills committed to a committee of
the whole House, the bill lhall be firft read
throughout by the clerk, and then again read
and debated by clauses, leaving the preamble
to be Uft considered; the body of the bill shall
not be defaced or interlined ; but ail amend
ments, noting the page and line, (hall be du
ly entered by the clerk on a separate paper as
the fame lhall be agreed to by the committee,
and so reported to the House. After report
the bill (hall again be fubjetb to be debated
and amended by clauses before a question to
engross it be taken.
All amendments made to an original moti
on in committee shall be incorporated with
the motion and to reported.
All amendments made to a report com
mitted to a committee of the whole (hall be
noted and reported as in the case of bills.
Allqucftions, whether in committee or in
the House, (hall bepropounded in the order
they were moved, except that in filling up
the blanks the larged sum and longed day lhall
be fird put.
The rules of proceeding ift the House dial!
he observed in committee so far as they may
be applicable, except that limiting the times
of speaking.
r Extract f rom the Journal,
JOHN BECKLEY, Clerk.
IVednefday , dpril 2, 1789.
THI3 day the galleries of the Hon. House
•cf Reprefiutatives were opened. The Mem
bers being convened, the Honorable Chief
Justice MORRIS, of the State of tyew-York,
adminidered to the Speaker and Members of
the House, the oath required by the Constitu
tion of the United States.
Upon motion of the Hon. Mr. Parker, of
Virginia, the House then refolvcd itfelf into a
committee of the whole, to take the date es
the Union into consideration. This moti
on was agreed to, and the Hon. Mr. Pcrc>
of Virginia, took the chair.
Mr. A Uddijon, cf Virginia, after a few
introductory observations on the great fubjeds
of finance, and the deficiencies of the Fede
ral Tread;!y, iuggefted the uecefiity of imme
; f a( Joptii 3 g tome medfures upon the tob
| jeit of National Revenue. With this objeft
i in v.ev , he pioduced a Retolve, fpecifying
r’trun articles upon which an Import‘was
propoied to be laid. The plan was limilar to
t.iat recommended by Congress in 1783—and
is as follows, viz.
[RESOLVED, as the opinion of this
committee, Thu: the following ditties ought
to he levied on goods, wares and merchan
dise, tmjiorted into the United States, to
On Rum per gallon, ts a ,MUr.
Vn all other Spintuom Llmjorfc
On MoJjtfea, 1
On Madeira Wine.
On all other Wines.
On common BoheaTeas per lb*.
On all other Teas, i
On Pepper. ‘
On B town Sugars.
On Lois Sugars.
On all other Sugars.
On Cocoa and Coffee.
On all other articles per cent, on their
value at the time and place of importation.]
That there ought, moreover, to be levied
on all vessels in which goods, wares or mer
chandifcs (hall be imported, the duties fol
lowing, viz.
On all vessels built within the United State?,
and belonging wholly to citizens thereof, at
the rate of per ton.
On all vessels belonging wholly to the fub
jefts of powers with whom the United States
have formed treaties, or partly to the fubjefta
of fnch powers, and partly to citizens of
the said States at the rate of
On all vessels belonging wholly or in part to
the fubjeCts of other powers, at the rate of
r I i-, * •
Mr. Boudinoiy of New-Jersey , and Cor*
fVbifr, of Virginia, spoke in favor of tho
Refolvc, from the necessity of a temporary
system’s being immediately adopted ; but aa
it was presumed, that Gentlemen had noe
come prepared to difeufs the fiibjeft, an ad*
jourument was called for, when the
resuming the chair, the, Houfc adjourned till
to-inorrow.
Thurfdavy April 9, 1789.
The House having again resolved itfelf in*
to a committee, Mr. Page took the chair.
When Mr. Sherman , of Connecticut, pro*
posed resuming the Resolve submitted to the
committee yesterday, by filling up the blanks.
Mr. Goodhue suggested the propriety of
again reading the resolve—which being done, '
Mr. Lanvrencey of New-York, observed,,
that the immediate necessity of a public Re
venue, to answer the exigencies of the Uni
on, was universally acknowledged, and the*
mode of raising it by Impost was generally
supposed to be the best; but that as the re
solve, at present proposed, was designed as a
temporary meafurc; and it being requifire
that some fyflem liiould be speedily adopted,
so as to embrace the advantages that would
result from the spring importations, it appear
ed to him the mod eligible plan to adopt a
general idea with refpeft to Import, and lay
a per centum, ad valorem, on articles indis
criminately, in preference to fpecifying the
particulars at various rates.
Mr. Fitzjimonsy of Pennsylvania, in oppo—
sition to the Hon. Mr. Lawrence y replied,
that a fpccification of certain articles, with
various rates of Import affixed to each, had
been found to be more propuCiive, easier col
lected, and a more certain Revenue, than 3
pei centum, assessed in £ general way; that
so far from wifining to abandon the original
idea, he thought it cf so much importance to
be adhered *o, that he had prepared an addi
tional lift of articles, which he asked leave to
read and lay on the table, that they might
form part of the fyflem which ffiould finally
be adopted. The Gentleman observed, in the
course of his speech, that the encouragement
of the manufactures of our own country, was
dcubtlefs an object with the Hon. House, and
th:.- was connected with the laying proper re—
st fictions on foreign articles. The Honorable;
G entleman’s addition follows, viz.
[Beer, ale, porter, beef, pork, butter,
candles of all kinds, cheeie, soap, cyder,
malt, nails, paper, blank books, cabinet
wares, cables, cordage, fait, manufactured
tobacco, fnuffi, ironmongery, hats, millenary,
tanr.ed leather, shoes and carriages.]
White observed, that as the season was
advanced, and entering fully i, !to the confi
derauon of the several branches of the fubjeft
would possibly protract the debates, <0 as t0 ’
defeat the original design ; and as the present
fmution of the manufactures of our country
was not fully known to him, and perhaps to
many odier Gentlemen, he wsr opposed to an
incorporation of the additional articles with
tliofe at firft proposed, for the prefer .
Mg Thai her proposed, that the blank an
nexed to the article “ Runt" ft,ou!d be filled
up with Ij-poths of a dollar.
Mr. 7 uektr % in a speech of considerable
length, opposed a fiuMcn decision upon the
fubjed, ns the House was not full, the Mem*
bc.s from Georgia and *>Qtuh*CaroliiM, him*