Debate.
26. No member shall interrupt another while speaking, except in accordance with Rule No. 9.
27. No person, in speaking, shall be allowed to mention a member then present by his name; but shall describe him as the member who spoke last, or last but one, or on the other side of the question, or by some other equivalent expression.
28. No person shall digress from the matter of the question under debate, to fall upon the person of another, and to speak reviling, nipping, or unmannerly words of, or to, him.
29. All motions, resolutions, etc., are debatable, except: (1) A motion to adjourn; (2) a motion to lie on the table; (3) a motion for the previous question; (4) a motion to read a paper, pending a question.
Order and Succession of Question.
30. When a question is regularly before the meeting, no other question can be put except: (1) Privileged Questions: Motion to adjourn, question of privilege, motion for orders of the day; (2) Incidental Questions: Question of order, motion for the reading of papers, withdrawal of a motion, suspension of a rule, amendment of an amendment; (3) Subsidiary Questions: Motion to lie on the table, postpone to a day certain, commitment, amendment, postpone indefinitely.
These motions are arranged in their order of precedence among themselves.
31. A motion to adjourn, unqualified, takes precedence of all others, and is always in order, except: (1) When a member is speaking; (2) when the meeting is voting; (3) when no business has been transacted since a motion to adjourn has been decided in the negative.
