CO-EXISTING QUESTIONS.
It may be asked whether the House can be in possession of two motions
or propositions at the same time? So that, one of them being decided,
the other goes to question without being moved anew? The answer must
be special. When a question is interrupted by a vote of adjournment,
it is thereby removed from before the House; and does not stand _ipso
facto_ before them at their next meeting, but must come forward in the
usual way: so, when it is interrupted by the order of the day. Such
other privileged questions also as dispose of the main question (_e.
g._ the previous question, the postponement, or commitment) remove it
from before the House. But it is only suspended by a motion to amend,
to withdraw, to read papers, or by a question of order or privilege, and
stands again before the House when these are decided. None but the class
of privileged questions can be brought forward while there is another
question before the House; the rule being, that when a motion has been
made and seconded no other can be received except it be a privileged one.