From the New York Independent, March 9, 1882.
“Smith’s Diagram of Parliamentary Rules” is an admirably ingenious
simplification of the confused matter of parliamentary practice. By a
very simple arrangement, motions of all kinds, in the order of their
precedence, are placed in the center, printed in large type, and their
relation to every possible rule is indicated by connecting lines. The
diagram is accompanied by a key, which, in explaining itself, clears up
the subject as well, and gives concise hints and directions for the
conduct of deliberative assemblies. Mr. Uriah Smith has put more of the
essence of parliamentary practice into small space and lucid order than
we find in any other manual.
From J. Warren Keifer, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Washington.
I have carefully examined the volume, and take pleasure in saying that I
regard the work as a very valuable one, and arranged so as to indicate
to either the casual reader or even an expert the special as well as
general rules controlling a particular motion. Your work seems to have
been thoroughly done, and I cheerfully commend it as a _vade mecum_ for
parliamentarians.
From Hon. David H. Jerome, Ex-Governor of Michigan.
Can be utilized by a presiding officer at a glance, and without the
embarrassing delay necessary to consult ordinary authorities.
From Benj. L. Hewitt, Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Harrisburg, Pa.
After a careful examination of your “Diagram of Parliamentary Rules,” I
find it a most exhaustive and complete compendium of parliamentary law,
affording, at a glance, solutions of almost every question in
parliamentary practice. It cannot fail to meet with public favor.
From Prof. I. L. Stone, formerly Superintendent of the City Schools of
Battle Creek.
For practical use it is worth all the massive treatises in the world. By
a happy device you have brought the whole perplexing code of
parliamentary laws into such brief space and simple shape that any point
of order can be determined at a glance, and _without turning a page_. Of
the flood of new “aids to instruction,” this is one of the very few
which really meets and satisfies “a long felt want.”
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