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.

82 EQUIVALENT QUESTIONS.
order of the day. Such other privileged questions also
as dispose of the main question (e. g. the previous
question, the postponement, or commitment) remove
it from before the House. But it is only suspended by
a motion to amend, to withdraw, to read papers, or by
a question of order or privilege, and stands again before the House when these are decided. None but
the class of privileged questions can be brought forward while there is another question before the House;
the rule being, that when a motion has been made and
seconded no other can be received except it be a privileged one.
SECTION XXXVIII.
EQUIVALENT QUESTIONS.
IF, on a question for rejection, a bill be retained, it
passes of course to its next reading.-Hakew. 141.
Scob. 42, and a question for a second reading determined negatively, is a rejection without farther question.-4 Grey, 149. And see Elsynge's Miemor. 42,
in what cases questions are to be taken for rejection.
Where questions are perfectly equivalent, so that
the negative of the one amounts to the affirmative of
the other, and leaves no other alternative, the decision
of the one concludes necessarily the other.-4 Grey,
157. Thus the negative of striking out amounts to
the affirmative of agreeing: and therefore to put a
question on agreeing after that on striking out, would
be to put the same question in effect twice over. Not
so in questions of amendments between the two
Houses. A motion to recede being negatived, does
not amount to a positive vote to insist, because there
is another alternative, to wit, to adhere.