Note 100 — BOOK IV. PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE. (continued 2)
Reading edition
This rule has been modified so as to specify the questions entitled to preference. The rule is now as follows:
Rule 43. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, to adjourn to a day certain, or that, when the Senate adjourn, it shall be to a day certain; to take a recess, to proceed to the consideration of the executive business, to lay on the table, to postpone indefinitely, to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or to amend: which several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they stand arranged, and the motions relating to adjournment, to proceed to the consideration of executive business, and to lay on the table, shall be decided without debate.