Michigan official directory and legislative manual for the years .. . upport of his argu-ment of a question.—//. J. 1861, p. 1076. He has such a right either by himself or by the clerk. The authorities must bewithout doubt relevant to the question at issue. 13. A demand for the ayes and noes is not in order after a division of thehouse is ordered.—Smiths Appeal, H. J. 1841, p. 682. ? , After a division of the house is ordered, nothing is in order but the division;but the congressional practice is to allow the requisite number of members toorder the yeas and nays even after a division is had, i
Michigan official directory and legislative manual for the years .. . upport of his argu-ment of a question.—//. J. 1861, p. 1076. He has such a right either by himself or by the clerk. The authorities must bewithout doubt relevant to the question at issue. 13. A demand for the ayes and noes is not in order after a division of thehouse is ordered.—Smiths Appeal, H. J. 1841, p. 682. ? , After a division of the house is ordered, nothing is in order but the division;but the congressional practice is to allow the requisite number of members toorder the yeas and nays even after a division is had, it being the theory that agiven number of members can make each individual vote a matter of record,and this has come to be regarded as good practice in all legislative bodies. 14. When the house adopts a substitute for a senate bill, and the senateconcurs with certain amendments, the concurrence of the house to thoseamendments passes the bill.— Tuckers Appeal, H. J. , p. 516. The question of concurrence must be by yeas and nays; if carried, then every t. LEGISLATIVE DECISIONS. 113 proposition contained in the bill as it stands has received the sanction of bothhouses. A majority of the minds have met, and the bill is ready for the govern-ors signature. 15. A concurrence in the report of a conference committee by a majority of allthe members elect is a passage of the bill.—Congers Appeal, S. J. 1858, p. 107. A conference committee is in the nature of a third legislative body, createdfor a special purpose, viz.: to revise a bill, as to which the two houses cannotagree. Its work is offered to the senate and house for ratification. The vote onthe agreement must be by yeas and nays, and it is not adopted unless a majorityof all the members elect in each house, respectively, vote therefor, in which casethe bill is ready for enrollment and the governors signature. The report of aconference committee cannot be amended or laid on the table. 16. At the first session of the leg
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