| Show THE NEW some changes mode in the method of counting quorums Qu washington jan jam P at the beginning of 0 this congress the house adopted for or its parliamentary code the rules rule ot of the last republican congress the fifty first with any changes it might adopt on tho the of nt the committee on rules these changes chances were reported to the house by the committee today but with ono one exception axe aie unimportant the exception Is the mode of establishing the pr presence ea of a quorum which after the precedent laid down by speaker reed need in the fifty congress li became pearne a most important point of 0 parliamentary practice in the last congress speaker crisp achieved the same barne result which c mr reed obtained by ox T rule ae under which two members were designated to note those present and riot not voting on a roll call the committee on rules now proposes a 4 rule introduced by J randall tucker of Vir virsinia sinla in the forty sixth congress the rule Is as follows whenever a quorum talla to vote on any question and ancl a quor quorum urn Is not present arid and objection Is made for or hat cause there shall be a call of tile the house and ill the sergeant at al arms shall forthwith proceed to bring in absent members and the yew yena wad bed nays on the pending question shall a at tho the same earno time be considered as ordered the tha clork cleric shall call the roll and each member as am lie he answers to his name may vote on the pending question and after the roll call Is completed each member arrested shall be brought by the sergeant at arms arma before the th house whereupon he shall be noted as present discharged from arrest and given an opportunity to vote and ilia his vote shall be recorded it if those thos e voting on the question and those who are present and decline to vote shall together make a majority of the house the speaker shall declare that a quorum Is constituted and the pending question shall be decided as a majority of those vo ling arball appear and thereupon further proceed I 1 nil under the lle call be considered as dispensed with another new rule provides that the speaker shall entertain only one motion to adjourn and no other dilatory motion after a report has boon been made by the committee on rules until the report has been fully disposed of the rule by which the previous lous question can be ordered only by a majority of the members bombera present it if a n quor i um Is changed to a majority of meni bers voting if it a quorum Is present |
