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other. In the ordinary parlinmentary course, there are two free conferences,
at
least, before an adherence. 10 Grey, 147.
   Either house may r'ecde from its amendment and agree to the bill"
or recede
 from  laeir disagreement to the amendment, and agree to the same absolutely,
or
 with an amendment; for here the disagreement and receding destroy one another,
 and the subject stands as before the disagreement. Eisyngc, 23, 27; 9 Grey,
476.
   But the hcuse cannot recede from, or insist on its own amendment, with
an
 amendment for the same reason that it cannot send to the other house an
amend-
 ment to its own act after it has passed the act. They may modify an amend-
 ment 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 adhered 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 necessary. ThM commons, however, refused them, as infringing
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 precedent, and not unparlia-
 mentary in a case become impracticable, and irremediable in any other way.
3
 Ilats., 256, 266, 270, 271. But the lords refused, and the bill was lost.
1
 G1lhand., 28S. A like case, 1 Chaurd., 311. So the commons resolved that
it was
 unparliamentary to strike ouL, at a conference anything in a bill which
had been
 agreed and passed by both Houses. 6 Grey, 274; 1 .._:and., 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 amendment
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, there-
fore, is only in the first degree, and the amendment to that again by the
amend-
ing Mouse 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
be-
come 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 XLVI.

                                CONFERENCES.

  It Is on the question 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 Houses on matters depending between them. The request of a confer-
ence, 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 conference; but
are
not then to be ansWered; 4 Grey, 144. The other house, then, if satisfied,
vote
the reason satisfactory, or say nothing; if not satisfied, they resolve them
not
satisfactory, and ask a conference on the subject of the last conference,
where
they read and deliver, in like manner, written answers to those reasons,
3 Grey,
183. They ate meant chiefly to record the jurisdiction of each House to the
nation at large, and to posterity, and in proof that the miscarriage of a
neces-
sary measiure is not imputable to them. 3 Grey, 255. At free conferences
the
managers discuss, viva voce and freely, and interchange propositions for
such