debate. The member who offers the motion, until it has been stated by
the presiding officer, can modify his motion, or even withdraw it
entirely; after it is stated he can do neither, without the consent of
the assembly. [See §§ 5 and 17]. When the mover modifies his motion,
the one who seconded it can withdraw his second.

Exceptions: A call for the order of the day, a question of order
(though not an appeal), or an objection to the consideration of a
question [§§ 13, 14, 15], does not have to be seconded; and many
questions of routine are not seconded or even made; the presiding
officer merely announcing that, if no objection is made, such will be
considered the action of the assembly.

4. All Principal Motions [§ 6], Amendments and Instructions to
Committees, should be in writing, if required by the presiding officer.
Although a question is complicated, and capable of being made into
several questions, no one member (without there is a special rule
allowing it) can insist upon its being divided; his resource is to move
that the question be divided, specifying in his motion how it is to be
divided. Any one else can move as

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an amendment to this, to divide it differently.

This Division of a Question is really an amendment [§ 23], and subject
to the same rules. Instead of moving a division of the question, the
same result can be usually attained by moving some other form of an
amendment. When the question is divided, each separate question must be
a proper one for the assembly to act upon, even if none of the others