classes,—Special Orders and General Orders,—the first class always taking precedence of the latter. General Orders can be made by a majority, by postponing questions to certain times, or by adopting a programme or order of business for the day or session; these General Orders cannot interfere with the established rules of the assembly. A Special Order suspends all the rules of the assembly that interfere with its consideration at the time specified,[1] and it therefore requires a two-thirds vote to make any question a Special Order. [This motion is in order whenever a motion to Suspend the Rules [§ 18] is in order]. After one Special Order is made for a certain time, it is not in order to make another Special Order to precede or interfere with it, but a Special Order can interfere with General Orders. When the Orders of the Day are taken up, it is necessary to take up first the Special Orders, if there are any, and then the General
- ↑ Thus, if an assembly had a rule like that in § 44 for the order of business, when the time appointed for the Special Order arrived, any one could call for the Special Orders, even though a Committee were reporting at the time; but the orders of the day in general could not be called for until all the Committees’ reports had been acted upon.
