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§ 126 the appeal is sustained and the decision is changed accordingly.

An appeal is not in order when another appeal is pending. It may be made when the previous question (97) is pending; but if made at such a time the appeal cannot be debated. It cannot be amended. It may be reconsidered whether the decision of the chair is, or is not, sustained, unless immediate action has followed the vote on the appeal. An appeal may be laid on the table, but the effect of laying it on the table is to sustain the chair only until the appeal is acted upon. The appeal, if laid on the table, does not carry to the table the question to which it is incidental.  

126. An objection may be made to the consideration of any principal motion, order of the day, conference report, or resolution, by any member, if he considers it devoid of interest, out of place, calculated to make trouble, or irrelevant to the object of the assembly or for other reasons; but