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...action is contrary to the accepted principles of parliamentary law: (a) No business can be transacted if the attention of the house is called to the fact that a quorum is not present.- Lalors Cyclopaedia of Political Science, III, 88. (b) The fact of a quorum or of no quorum is settled by the record-Smith's Manual, 455; House Journal, 1st session, 44th congress, p. 1078. (c) The constitutional idea of a quorum implies not the visible presence, but the judgment and voted of the members-Thomas B. Reed in Congressional Record, vol X., part...
...their opponents, but the only weapons left to the minority are the forms and rules of proceedings. (b) The rules are intended to protect the weak against the strong-Roger Q. Mills in North American Review, December, 1889, p. 661. (c) Minority representatives are a necessity-Lalor's Cyclopaedia...
...large merchant marine is essential to naval power-Kelley's Question of Ships, p 108; Brassey's British Navy, vol. 2. pp 317-320; Lalor's Cyclopaedia...
...Lalor's "Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy and United States History," 3 vols., sheep...
...Lalor's "Cyclopaedia of Political Science, Political Economy and United States History," 3 vols., sheep...