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amendment; for the same reason that it cannot send to the other house an
amendment to its own act after it has passed the act. They may modify an
amendment from the other house by ingrafting an amendment on it, because
they have never assented to it; but they cannot amend their own amendment,
because they have, on the question, passed it in that form. 9 Grey, 363;
10
Grey, 240. In the Senate, March 29, 1798. Nor where one house has ad-
hered to their amendment, and the other agrees with an amendment, can the
first house depart from the form which they have fixed by an adherence.
  In the case of a money bill, the lords' proposed amendments become, by
delay, confessedly neccessary. The commons, however, refused them, as in-
fringing on their privileges as to money bills; but they offered themselves
to
add to the bill a proviso to the same effect, which had no coherence with
the
lords' amendments; and urged that it was an expedient warranted by prece-
dent, and not unparliamentary in a case become impracticable, and irremedi-
able in any other way. 3 Hats., 256, 266, 270, 271. But the lords refused,
and
the bill was lost. 1 Chand., 288. A like case, 1 Chand., 311. So the com-
mons resolved that it was unparliamentary to strike out, at a conference,
anything in a bill which had been agreed and passed by both Houses. 6
Grey, 274; 1 Uhand., 312.
  A motion to amend an amendment from the other House takes precedence
of a motion to agree or disagree.
  A bill originating in one House is passed by the other with an amendment.
  The originating House agrees to their amendment with an amendment. The
other may agree to their amendment with an amendment, that being only in
the 2d and not the 3d degree; for, as to the amending House, the first amend-
ment with which they passed the bill is a part of its text; it is the only
text
they have agreed to. The amendment to that text by the originating House,
therefore, is only in the 1st degree, and the amendment to that again by
the
amending House is only in the 2d, to-wit: an amendment to an amendment,
and so admissible. Just so, when, on a bill from the originating House, the
other, at its second reading makes an amendment; on the third reading this
amendment is become the text of the bill, and if an amendment to it be
moved, an amendment to that amendment may also be moved, as being only
in the 2d degree.
                          SECTION XLVr.
                            COINFEiENCF5.
  It is on the occasion of amendments between the Houses that conferences
are usually asked; but they may be asked in all cases of difference of opinion
between the two H-.uses on matters depending between them. The request
of a conference, however, must always be with the House which is possessed
of the papers. 3 Hats., 31; 1 Grey, 425.
  Conferences may be either simple or free. At a conference simply, written
reasons are prepared by the House asking it, and they are read and delivered,
without debate, to the managers of the other House at the conferel.ce; but
are
not then to be answered; 4 Grey, 144. The other House, then, if satisfied,
vote