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.

32 COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.
man seats himself at the clerk's table. —Scob. 86.
Vide Rules H. R. 118. Their quorum is the same as
that of the House; and if a defect happens, the chairman, on a motion and question, rises, the Speaker resumes the chair, and the chairman can make no other
report than to inform the House of the cause of their
dissolution. If a message is announced during a committee, the Speaker takes the chair, and receives it,
because the committee cannot.-2 Hats. 125, 126.
In a committee of the whole, the tellers, on a division, differing as to numbers, great heats and confusion
arose, and danger of a decision by the sword. The
Speaker took the chair, the mace was forcibly laid on
the table; whereupon, the members retiring to their
places, the Speaker told the House "he had taken the
chair without an order, to bring the House into order."
Some excepted against it; but it was generally approved
as the only expedient to suppress the disorder. And
every member was required, standing up in his place,
to engage that he would proceed no further, in consequence of what had happened in the grand committee,
which was done.-3 Grey, 139.
A committee of the whole being broken up in disorder, and the chair resumed by the Speaker without
an order, the House was adjourned. The next day
the committee was considered as thereby dissolved,
and the subject again before the House; and it was
decided in the House, without returning into committee.-3 Grey, 130.
No previous question can be put in a committee;
nor can this committee adjourn as others may; but if
their business is unfinished, they rise on a question,
the House is resumed, and the chairman reports that
the committee of the whole have, according to order,
had under their consideration such a matter, and have
made progress therein: but not having time to go
through the same, have directed him to ask leave to