Chapter XXIII: Section XXI: Resolutions

When the House commands, it is by an "order." But facts, principles, their own opinions and purposes, are expressed in the form of resolutions.

$A resolution for an allowance of money to the clerks being moved, it was objected to as not in order, and so ruled by the chair. But on appeal to the Senate, (i. e., a call for their sense by the President, on account of doubt in his mind, according to Rule 16,) the decision was overruled.--_Journ. Sen._, June 1, 1796. I presume the doubt was, whether an allowance of money could be made otherwise than by bill.$