A manual of parliamentary practice, composed originally for the use of the Senate of the United States. By Thomas Jefferson. With references to the practice and rules of the House of representatives. The whole brought down to the practice of the present time; to which are added the rules and orders, together with the joint rules of both houses of Congress. And accompanied with copious indices.

AMENDMENTS. 7T
ouLht not to be obstructed by a formality introduced
for questions of a peculiar character.
SECTION XXXV.
AMENDMENTS.
ON an amendment being moved, a member 01ho has
spoken to the main question may speak again to the
amendment.-Scob. 23.
If an amendment be proposed inconsistent with one
already agreed to, it is a fit ground for its rejection
by the House; but not within the competence of the
Speaker to suppress, as if it were against order. For,
were he permitted to draw questions of consistence
within the vortex of order, he might usurp a negative
on important modifications, and suppress instead of
subserving the legislative will.
Amendments may be made so as totally to alter
the nature of the proposition; and it is a way of getting rid of a proposition, by making it bear a sense
different from what was intended by the movers, so
that they vote against it themselves.-2 Hats. 79; 4,
82, 84. A new bill may be ingrafted, by way of
amendment, on the words, "Be it enacted," &c.-1
Grey, 190, 192.
If it be proposed to amend by leaving out certain
words, it may be moved as an amendment to this
amendment, to leave out a part of the words of the
amendment, which is equivalent to leaving them in
the bill.-2 Hats. 80, 9. The Parliamentary question
is always, Whether the words shall stand part of the
bill?
When it is proposed to amend by inserting a paragraph, or part of one, the friends of the paragraph