e day.* [In Congress, it cannot
be renewed the same day.] The rules of the assembly shall not be
suspended except for a definite purpose, and by a two-thirds vote.

The Form of this motion is, to "suspend the rules which interfere with,"
etc., specifying the object of the suspension.

Subsidiary Motions.
[Sec.Sec. 19-24; see Sec. 7.]

19. To Lie on the Table. This motion takes precedence of all other
Subsidiary Questions [Sec. 7], and yields to any Privileged [Sec. 9] or
Incidental [Sec. 8] Question. It is not debatable, and cannot be amended or
have any other subsidiary motion [Sec. 7] applied to it. It removes the
subject from consideration till the assembly vote to take it from the
table.

The Form of this motion is, "I move that the question lie on the table,"
or, "that it be laid on the table," or, "to lay the question

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on the table." When it is desired to take the question up again, a
motion is made, either "to take the question from the table," or "to now
consider such and such a question;" which motion is undebatable, and
cannot have any subsidiary motion applied to it.

The Object of this motion is to postpone the subject in such a way, that
at any time it can be taken up, either at the same or some future
meeting, which could not be accomplished by a motion to postpone, either
definitely or indefinitely. It is also frequently used to suppress a
question [Sec. 59], which it does, provided a majority vote can never be
obtained to take it from the table during that session [Sec. 42].

The Effect of this motion is in general to place on the table everything
that adheres to the subject; so that if an amendment be ordered to lie
on the table, the subject which it is proposed to amend, goes there with
it. The following cases are exceptional: (a) An appeal [Sec. 14] being
laid on the table, has the effect of sustaining, at least for the time,
the decision of the Chair, and does not carry the original subject to
the table. (b) So when a motion to reconsider [Sec. 27] a question is

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laid on the table, the original question is left where it was before the
reconsideration was moved. (c) An amendment to the minutes being laid
on the table does not carry the minutes with it.

Even after the ordering of the Previous Question up to the moment of
taking the last