table.

The Form of this motion is, "I move that the question lie on the table,"
or, "that it be laid on the table," or, "to lay the question

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on the table." When it is desired to take the question up again, a
motion is made, either "to take the question from the table," or "to now
consider such and such a question;" which motion is undebatable, and
cannot have any subsidiary motion applied to it.

The Object of this motion is to postpone the subject in such a way, that
at any time it can be taken up, either at the same or some future
meeting, which could not be accomplished by a motion to postpone, either
definitely or indefinitely. It is also frequently used to suppress a
question [§ 59], which it does, provided a majority vote can never be
obtained to take it from the table during that session [§ 42].

The Effect of this motion is in general to place on the table everything
that adheres to the subject; so that if an amendment be ordered to lie
on the table, the subject which it is proposed to amend, goes there with
it. The following cases are exceptional: (a) An appeal [§ 14] being
laid on the table, has the effect of sustaining, at least for the time,
the decision of the Chair, and does not carry the original subject to
the table. (b) So when a motion to reconsider [§ 27] a question is

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laid on the table, the original question is left where it was before the