Word: quorums
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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After a long continued discussion during which nothing definite was arrived at, the point of no quorum was raised and the Union separated. This leaves the amendment passed last week in force and the Union will now continue its activity along a new line...
...Club at the next annual meeting. The Executive Committee shall determine dates for all tournaments and supervise the selection of prizes for the same. The Executive Committee shall have the power to decide all matters not herein provided for. A majority of the committee shall constitute a quorum...
...meeting for the election of a captain for the '95 baseball team, there was no election as no quorum was present...
During the first year the club will be governed by a committee consisting of the nine original trustees and eleven more to be appointed. The latter will be selected from the list of applications by the secretary, Mr. Mathewson. Eleven of these shall constitute a quorum. The original nine trustees are: George A. Adee, George W. Green, W. H. L. Lee, C. F. Mathewson, E. J. Wendell, Henry S. Brooks, H. S. Van Duzer, Tracy Harris and Edward S. Repello. Annual meetings will be held the second Saturday in each January-There will be three standing committees, consisting of House...
...ruling on the quorum is unconstitutional indefinite and dangerous. - (a) Unconstitutional. - (1) Not in accordance with the practice up to 1889; contemporaneous exposition. - (2) A majority prescribed by the constitution. - (3) The House not in absolute control of its own procedure; Consti, Art. 1, $5; Bryce, pp. 129-131. - (b) Indefinite, by being capable of different interpretations; Nation, Feb. 13, 1890, p. 124. - (c) Dangerous. - (1) Rules are intended to protect, not to oppress minorities...