Amend or Indefinitely Postpone, and yields to any Privileged [§ 9] or
Incidental

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[§ 8] Question, and also to the motion to Lie on the Table, or for the
Previous Question, or to Postpone to a certain day. It can be amended
by altering the committee, or giving it instructions. It is debatable,
and opens to debate [§ 35] the merits of the question it is proposed to
commit.

The Form of this motion is "to refer the subject to a committee." When
different committees are proposed they should he voted in the following
order: (1) Committee the whole [§ 32], (2) a standing committee, and
(3) a special (or select) committee. The number of a committee is
usually decided without the formality of a motion, as in filling blanks
[§ 25]: the Chairman asks "of how many shall the committee consist?"
and a question is then put upon each number suggested, beginning with
the largest. The number and kind of the committee need not be decided
till after it has been voted to refer the subject to a committee. If
the committee is a select one, and the motion does not include the
method of appointing it, and there is no standing rule on the subject,
the Chairman inquires how the committee shall be appointed, and this is
usually decided informally. Sometimes the Chair "appoints," in which
case he names the members of the committee and no vote is taken

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upon them; or the committee is "nominated" either by the Chair or
members of the assembly (no member nominating more than one except by