said he believed the rule was for a member not to speak more than once without permission from the chair, unless by way of explanation.
understood that the chairman always governed the matter himself.
Councillor said he was aware that there was a delicacy in the minds of our chairmen in regard to assuming authority, but he wants a man when he takes this chair to act as though he had been in the chair a thousand years. He moved that it be the decided feelings of this council that when any man takes the chair, he feels that he is the chairman to all intents and purposes.
stated some parliamentary rules pertaining to order
The said he did not feel to say that that we shall be bound to a certain rule, because things which might be brought up tomorrow might change the subject, but he would wish to have [p. [45]]
On 9 March 1845, during a discussion of procedural rules in the high priests quorum, Brigham Young similarly warned that “if the High Priests have trammelled themselves with rules they have snagged themselves.” Young instructed that they “should pay no attention to rules—but do just what was right.” (Nauvoo High Priests Quorum, Record, 9 Mar. 1845.)
Nauvoo High Priests Quorum. Record, 1840–1891. CHL. CR 1000 2.