10. A paragraph that is inserted by vote Cannot be changed, but it may be amended before the question is put.
11. When the amendment is both to strike out and insert, these two may be divided by vote or general consent, and then the question is taken first on striking out.
PREFERRED MOTIONS.
When a motion is before the assembly, it must be disposed of before anything else can be brought forward, with the exception of three classes of questions. These are privileged, incidental, and subsidiary questions.
1.—PRIVILEGED QUESTIONS.
1. The motion to adjourn takes precedence of every other, except when it has been moved and defeated, when it shall not be moved again until something else has been done. It cannot be moved while a member is speaking, or a vote being taken. But to be entitled to such precedence, it must be a simple motion to adjourn, without question of time or place. If these are added, it must take its regular turn. An adjournment without any time being fixed, is equivalent to a dissolution, unless this has been provided for by custom or especial rule. At adjournment every pending question is taken from before the assembly, and can only be brought up again in the regular way.
2. Any question affecting the rights and privileges of members, as in quarreling, the intrusion of strangers, etc., comes next in order to adjournment, and displaces everything else.
3. If the assembly fix on an order of business for a certain time, when that time arrives, a motion to take up this order has precedence of all questions, but the two preceding.
2.—INCIDENTAL QUESTIONS.
Incidental questions are those that grow out of other questions, and must be decided before them.