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 98 PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE. to insist upon the enforcement of it in the same manner. 152. But, though no question can be made, as to the enforcement of the rules, when therp is a breach or manifest departure from them, so long as any member insists upon their enforcement ; yet questions may and do fre- quently arise, as to the fact of there being a breach of order, or a violation of the rules in a particular proceeding ; and these questions must be decided before a case can arise for the enforcement of the rules. Questions of this kind are denominated questions of order. 153. When any question of this nature arises, in the course of any other proceeding, it necessarily supersedes the further consider- ation of the subject out of which it arises, until that question is disposed of ; then the original motion or proceeding revives, and resumes its former position, unless it has been itself disposed of by the question of order. 154. When a question of order is raised, as it may be by any one member, it is not stated from the chair, and decided by the assembly, like other questions ; but is decided, in the first instance, by the presiding officer, without «ny previous debate or discussion by the