Bisbee daily review., 1903-12-01


 are inclined to scorn us just i a little as country folk clubs
 but if We give enough attention to parliamentary usage tho will soon have to recognize us as . ITS in the territory. They will have 70 give us the best places on the committees, the best office because they will rec ognize our ability to fill them Mrs. Fox says that rules of proceed ure are as necessary in conducting meetings as the rules of grammar are in speaking and writing and that the incorrect knowledge of parlia- mentary law should be as humiliating to person who takes part in a de- Lucrative assembly as it would be to say. Il done" or T seen' In ordinary conversation.
 The club should be a liberal educa- tion to it's members. Even if We nev- CT expect to use the knowledge o, the principles We will feel more com fortable if we know them Some of us have yet to learn the satisfaction of knowing that we know KnowleG ge for it's own sake should be cur high est ideal
 We are not called upon to know very much about parliamentary usage in order to conduct properly ordinary business hut We do not know how soon the emergency will arise in our Federated life when it will be a weap- on in our hanGs. It is interesting to know that the great legislative bat ties of the world have been fought with the weapons of parliamentary us- uage. Bills of national importance have been lost or passed because some parliamentary principle was a weapon that some one knew how to use
 Now in orcer that I may not be ac- cused of being too impractical will close my paper with a few parliament tary donts
 Don't speak in debate of a member who has just spoken by her name but refer to her as the member aho has just spoken or the member who spoke on the other side Of the question.
 Don't leave the meeting before al journment without asking the presi- dent to excuse you. Don't expect your president to be any more familiar with parliamentary tactics than you are yourself.
 Don't appoint your committees CT officers because you feel especially friendly to them but fo- their special ability.
 Don't present the report or a con- mittee orally but in writing with the signatures of all the members at | tached.
 Don't fail to recommit a report of committee that is unsatisfactory Don't forget that a motion request cd to be written should be presented In the form of a resolution and that when it is So presented the proper motion is to aCopt the resolution Don't forget that motions should be affirmative and not negative. Don't forget that there are only three ways in which you may amend a motion.
 ! First by d motion to insert or add something when the form of your mo- ton shall be, Madam President, l move to amend the motion pending by inserting the following words or by eight motionsadspeaktr adding the following words. Second, the motion to amend by striking out.
 Third. the motion to amend by sub- stituting
 Don't forget that there are only eight motions which may be made while a motion is already pending and that these are: l. To amend. Z. To amend the motion to amend. | ;. To commit or refer. f. To postpone to a time certain. ,. For the previous question. 6. To lay on the table. z. To adjourn. s. To fix the place or time with which to adjourn. Don't forget that you cannot sus- pend the constitution by a motion to do so or the bylaws unless they. them selves provide for such action. If you remember that, you will be wiser than our territorial Federation were this last meeting.
 Do not make a motion to reconsider motion on which the vote has been taken unless you were on the victori- ous side.
 Remember that the only motion which can be made when there is no quorum present is the motion to ad, journ. -
 Do not forget that you cannot de- bate motion to take a recess or ad- Journ. In remembering this you will again show yourselves wiser than your territorial Federation.