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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a motion is dated by the Speaker, or read by the Clerk, it Chall be deemed to be in porteHton of the House, but may be withdrawn at any time before decilioti or amendment.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*