proper motion to use in order to suppress the question for the session,
is to postpone indefinitely. It cannot be made while any motion except
the original or main question is pending, but it can be made after an
amendment has been acted upon, and the main question, as amended, is
before the assembly. It opens the merits of the main question to debate
to as great an extent as if the main question were before the assembly.
On account of these two facts, in assemblies with short sessions it is
not very useful, as the same result can usually be more easily attained
by the next motion.

(c) Lie on the table. If there is no possibility during the remainder
of the session of obtaining a majority vote for taking up the question,
then the quickest way of suppressing it is

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to move "that the question lie on the table;" which, allowing of no
debate, enables the majority to instantly lay the question on the table,
from which it cannot be taken without their consent.

From its high rank [§ 64] and undebatable character, this motion is very
commonly used to suppress a question, but, as shown in § 57 (b), its
effect is merely to lay the question aside till the assembly 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 [§ 70], except by a motion to "reconsider
the vote" on that question. This motion can only be made by one who