After an order is adopted closing debate at a certain hour, or limiting it to a certain time, the motions to postpone and to commit cannot be moved until the vote adopting the order has been reconsidered; but the pending question may be laid on the table, and if it is not taken from the table until after the hour appointed for closing the debate and taking the vote, no debate or motion to amend is allowed, as the chair should immediately put the question. After the adoption of an order limiting the number or length of the speeches, or extending these limits, it is in order to move any of the other subsidiary [12] motions on the pending question.
An order modifying the limits of debate on a question is in force only during the session in which it was adopted. If the question in any way goes over to the next session it is divested of this order and is open to debate according to the regular rules.
The various Forms of this motion are as follows:
"I move that debate close and the question be put on the resolution at 9 P.M."(2) To limit the length of the debate, the motion may be made thus:
"I move that debate on the pending amendment be limited to twenty minutes."(3) To reduce or increase the number and length of speeches, the motion should be made in a form similar to one of these:
"I move that debate on the pending resolution and its amendments be limited to one speech of five minutes from each member;"
"I move that Mr. A's time be extended ten minutes;"
"I move that Messrs. A and B (the leaders on the two sides) be allowed twenty minutes each, to be divided between their two speeches at their pleasure, and that other members be limited to one speech of two minutes each, and that the question be put at 9 P.M."
