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Senate, which question shall be decided without debate." If no rule is
adopted, each member can speak but once to the same question.]

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proper course is to refer the subject to the committee of the whole [Sec.
32], or to consider it informally [Sec. 33]. [For limiting or closing the
debate, see Sec. 37.] No member can speak the second time to a question,
until every member choosing to speak has spoken. But an amendment, or
any other motion being offered, makes the real question before the
assembly a different one, and, in regard to the right to debate, is
treated as a new question. Merely asking a question, or making a
suggestion, is not considered as speaking.

35. Undebatable Questions. The following questions shall be decided
without debate, all others being debatable [see note at end of this
section]:

To Fix the Time to which the Assembly shall Adjourn (when a
privileged question, Sec. 10).
To Adjourn [Sec. 11], (or in committee, to rise, which is used instead
of to adjourn).
For the Orders of the Day [Sec. 13], and questions relating to the
priority of business.
An Appeal [Sec. 14] when made while the Previous Question is pending,
or when simply relating to indecorum or transgressions of the rules of
speaking, or to the priority of business.
Objection to the Consideration of a Question [Sec. 15].

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Questions relating to Reading of Papers [Sec. 16], or Withdrawing a
Motion [Sec. 17], or Suspending the Rules [Sec. 18], or extending the limits
of debate [Sec. 34], or limiting or closing debate, or granting leave to
continue his speech to one who has been guilty of indecorum in debate
[Sec. 36].
To Lie on the Table or to Take from the Table [Sec. 19].
The Previous Question [Sec. 20].
To Reconsider [Sec. 26] a question which is itself undebatable.

The motion to Postpone to a certain time [Sec. 21] allows of but very
limited debate, which must be confined to the propriety of the
postponement; but to Reconsider a debatable question [Sec. 26], or to
Commit [Sec. 22], or Indefinitely Postpone [Sec. 24], opens the main question
[Sec. 6] to debate. To Amend [Sec. 23] opens the main question to debate only
so far as it is necessarily involved in the amendment.

The distinction between debate and making sugge