A motion was made and lost to recommit the report to a select committee.
The gentleman last up wished the committee to rise, in order to recommit it: he should vote for it if the gentleman was willing to add, "to bring in a bill.
He believed the best way of ascertaining this, would be to move to insert, and if the amendments were carried, to recommit the report, to be made conformable to them.
A motion was then made by Mr. LEIB to recommit the report of the select committee on which the above bill was founded, in order to correct an erroneous statement in relation to Pennsylvania.
If the section pronounce an ambiguous voice, to be construed according to expediency, then is there so much greater reason to recommit the bill, to reduce it to some shape which shall render it intelligible to the meanest capacity.
So convinced were the House that this was the true state of the case, that the honorable chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations himself moved to recommit the bill he had previously introduced, and it was done.
Mr. RHEA subsequently moved to recommit the bill to the same committee which reported it, for the purpose of amendment; and the bill was recommitted.
Mr. RHEA moved to recommit the report to the committee who reported it, with a view to obtaining a report on the merits of it.
The question was then taken on the motion to recommit the bill, and lost.
He hoped the House would consent to recommit the bill, and, in some one vote, show something like unanimity.
Mr. Benton moved to recommit the bill with instructions to prefix a preamble, or insert an amendment showing upon what ground the grant was motived.
He observed, that the business had originated in a Committee of the Whole, and it was unusual to recommit it without showing some reasons why.
The motion then was, to recommit the second, fourth, and sixth sections.
It is sufficient for them, if the candor of the House should lead them now to recommit the bill, that in a Committee of the Whole they may have an opportunity of offering their objections.
The motion to recommit this section was negatived.
If not, you will please recommit him to Fort Warren and report to this Department.
Brown if he desires it, but if not, you are directed torecommit him to Fort Warren.
Pending those two propositions, the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Lawrence] moved to recommit the joint resolution to the joint committee with certain instructions.
He then made a motion to recommit the bill, pending which, he made a speech on the merits of the measure.
A motion was then made torecommit the 2^d clause which was negatived.
The advocates of assumption were so indignant, and so convinced that one part of the project was as vital as the other, that they voted to recommit the original funding resolution.
When, therefore, a motion to recommit the financial projects was made, it was carried by a vote of 29 to 27.
A motion was made by Mr. Clay to recommit the bill to the Committee of Finance--a motion equivalent to its abandonment for the session, which failed.
It is to recommitthe government of India to the Court of Directors.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recommit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: commit; consign; remand; remit; restore; return
