[* * * When a member shall be called to order by the President or a Senator, he shall sit down, and shall not proceed without leave of the Senate; and every question of order shall be decided by the President, without debate, subject to an appeal to the Senate; and the President may call for the sense of the Senate on any question of order. _Rule 6._]
[No member shall speak to another or otherwise interrupt the business of the Senate, or read any newspaper while the journals or public papers are reading, or when any member is speaking in any debate. _Rule 2._]
No one is to disturb another in his speech by hissing, coughing, spitting (6 _Grey_, 332; _Scob._, 8; _D’Ewes_, 332, _col._ 1, 640, _col._ 1) speaking or whispering to another (_Scob._, 6; _D’Ewes_, 487, _col._ 1); nor stand up to interrupt him (_Town._, _col._ 205; _Mem. in Hakew._, 31); nor to push between the Speaker and the speaking member, nor to go across the house (_Scob._, 6), or to walk up and down it, or to take books or papers from the table, or write there. 2 _Hats._, 171.
Nevertheless, if a member finds that it is not the inclination of the House to hear him, and that by conversation or any other noise they endeavor to drown his voice, it is his most prudent way to submit to the pleasure of the House, and sit down; for it scarcely ever happens that they are guilty of this piece of ill manners without sufficient reason, or inattentive to a member who says anything worth their hearing. _2 Hats._, 77, 78.
If repeated calls do not produce order, the Speaker may call by his name any member obstinately persisting in irregularity; whereupon the House may require the member to withdraw. He is then to be heard in exculpation, and to withdraw. Then the Speaker states the offense committed, and the House considers the degree of punishment they will inflict. 3 _Hats._, 167, 7, 8, 172.
For instances of assaults and affrays in the House of Commons, and the proceedings thereon, see 1 _Pet. Misc._, 82; 3 _Grey_, 128; 4 _Grey_, 328; 5 _Grey_, 382; 6 _Grey_, 254; _10 Grey_, 8.
Whenever warm words or an assault have passed between members, the House, for the protection of their members, requires them to declare in their places not to prosecute any quarrel (3 _Grey_, 127, 293; 5 _Grey_, 280); or orders them to attend the Speaker, who is to accommodate their differences, and report to the House (3 _Grey_, 419); and they are put under restraint if they refuse, or until they do. 9 _Grey_, 234, 312.