ly choose to
consider it, and it only suppresses the question so long as there is a
majority opposed to its consideration.

60. To Consider a question a second time. Reconsider. When a question
has been once adopted, rejected or suppressed, it cannot be again
considered during that session [Sec. 70], except by a motion to "reconsider
the vote" on that question. This motion can only be made by one who
voted on the prevailing side, and on the day the vote was taken which it
is proposed to reconsider.* [In Congress it can be made on the same or
succeeding day; and if the yeas and nays were not taken on the vote, any
one can move the reconsideration. The yeas and nays are however ordered
on all important votes in Congress, which is not the case in ordinary
societies.] It can be made and entered on the minutes in the midst of
debate, even when another member has the floor, but cannot be considered
until there is no question

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before the assembly, when, if called up, it takes precedence of every
motion except to adjourn and to fix the time to which the assembly shall
adjourn.

A motion to reconsider a vote on a debatable question, opens to debate
the entire merits of the original motion. If the question to be
reconsidered is undebatable, then the reconsideration is undebatable.

If the motion to reconsider is carried, the chairman announces that the
question now recurs on the adoption of the question the vote on which
has been just reconsidered: the original question is now in exactly the
same condition that it was in before the first vote was taken on its
adoption, and must be disposed of by a vote.

When a motion to reconsider is entered on the minutes, it need not be
called up by the mover till the next meeting, on a succeeding day.* [If
the assembly has not adopted these or similar rules, this paragraph
would not apply, but this motion to reconsider would, like any other
motion, fall to the ground if not acted upon before the close of the
session at which the original vote was adopted.] If he fails to call it
up then, any one else can do so. But should there be no succeeding
meeting, either adjourned or regular, within a month, then the effect of
the motion to reconsider

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terminates with the adjournment of the meeting at which it was made, and
any one can call i