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104 also requiring a two-thirds vote. When the time arrives for the question postponed to be taken up everything yields to it except privileged motions (80). When a question has been postponed to a certain day or hour it becomes on that day or hour one of the “orders of the day” (89).  

104. Resolutions are often offered which are not in the best form to express the judgement or carry out the will of the assembly; or questions may arise upon which the assembly desires more information than is then before it, or that need more careful consideration than can well be given it by the assembly itself, and the members may think of the work of perfecting such a resolution or motion can be more satisfactorily performed by means of a committee to inquire into the merits of the question, put it into proper form for consideration and report its deliberations and recommendations to the assembly for final action. This can be done by a motion to commit, or if the subject has been already in the hands of the committee, to re-commit.