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January 05, 1839

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Saturday, January 5, 1839.
 Vandalia, IL.

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Lincoln proposes two rules which are adopted: "(1) No bill shall be committed or amended on the question of its passage, except by the consent of two thirds of all the members present," and "(2) When any petition, remonstrance or claim is presented by a member and such member may not deesire its reading, he may make the motion to dispense with its reading and ask its reference at the time of presentation—and the chair may consider the motion as agreed to, unless some member should object and so state to the House." He makes brief remarks about fugitive slave resolutions, and moves indefinite postponement of "the subject." House Journal; Additional Rules Adopted by the House of Representatives of Illinois, [5 January 1839], CW, 1:125; Remarks in Illinois Legislature Concerning Resolutions in Relation to Fugitive Slaves, 5 January 1839, CW, 1:126. 

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            <date value='1839-01-05'>Saturday, January 5, 1839.</date>
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         <p> Lincoln proposes two rules which are adopted: "(1) No bill shall be
            committed or amended on the question of its passage, except by the consent of two thirds
            of all the members present," and "(2) When any petition, remonstrance or claim is
            presented by a member and such member may not deesire its reading, he may make the
            motion to dispense with its reading and ask its reference at the time of
            presentation&#8212;and the chair may consider the motion as agreed to, unless some
            member should object and so state to the House." He makes brief remarks about fugitive
            slave resolutions, and moves indefinite postponement of "the subject."<bibl default='NO'>
               <title>House Journal</title>; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A148' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Additional Rules Adopted by
                  the House of Representatives of Illinois</xref>, [5 January 1839], <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 1:125; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln1;node=lincoln1%3A149' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Remarks in Illinois
                  Legislature Concerning Resolutions in Relation to Fugitive Slaves</xref>, 5
               January 1839, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>,
            1:126.</bibl>
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