Note Return to text — Chapter XII · OF ORDER IN DEBATE.

231. The above is the course of proceeding established by the writers of greatest authority,[Footnote 32] and ought invariably to be pursued; it might however be improved, by the member who objects to words writing them down at once, and thereupon moving that they be made a part of the minutes; by which means, the presiding officer would be relieved from the responsibility of determining, in the first instance, upon the character of the words.