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Show Courtesy of the Senate Senatorial courtesy Is something well understood but difficult to define. One authority defined it as indulgences indulgen-ces extended by one senator to another. anoth-er. Another suggests that the term "senatorial courtesy" Is one applied to a custom in the United States senate by which the procedure of that body Is bused, chlelly, on the honor of senators sen-ators rather than upon strict rules. For example, It Is customary (usually) when a former senator's name Is sent in for the nomination for some appointive appoin-tive position to confirm him as a mutter mut-ter of course, without going through the regular routine. It Is also customary cus-tomary for the senate to refuse to confirm the nomination of an appoint, uient to office In any state whose senator sen-ator (or senators) objects to the person per-son nominated, on the ground thut the nomination Is personally objectionable. i i |