A Manual of Parliamentary Practice SEC. VII: Call of the House
by Thomas Jefferson
On a call of the House, each person
rises up as he is called, and answereth. The absentees are then only noted, but
no excuse to be made till the House be fully called over. Then the absentees are
called a second time, and if still absent, excuses are to be heard. Ord. H.
Com. 92.
They rise that their persons may be recognized; the voice, in such a crowd,
being an insufficient verification of their presence. But in so small a body as
the Senate of the United States, the trouble of rising cannot be necessary.
Orders for calls on different days may subsist at the same time. 2.
Hats. 72.
