PAYMENT OF MEMBERS. 119 
illness, provided he be within 10 miles of the place of 
meeting, are reckoned days of attendance. In some very 
exceptional cases the House has resolved that an absent 
member should receive the sum he would have been en- 
titled to had he not been so absent. The legality of such 
a proceeding is very doubtful’. 
When a person is member for at least 30 days of a ig 
session, 8 dollars a day is deducted from the sessional allow- ni, 
ance for each day before he was elected or after he ceased 
to be a member. 
An allowance of 10 cents per mile is given for travelling Travelling 
expenses, both on going and on returning, between the place Rpm 
of residence of the member and the place where the session 
is held, according to the nearest mail route, the distance 
being determined and certified by the Speaker of the Senate 
or of the House of Commons as the case may be. 
A member may draw his sessional allowance from time to How paid. 
time to the extent of 7 dollars a day, the balance being 
payable at the end of the session on the member making a 
declaration as to the number of days he has attended and 
the number of miles travelled. 
The Speakers of the Senate and of the House of Commons Salary of 
receive each a salary of 4000 dollars per annum 2 pensar 
7. ADJOURNMENT. 
A motion to adjourn is always in order and always takes 
precedence of the question before the House. In the Commons 
no amendment can be moved to such motion, and if the motion 
be lost no second motion to the same effect can be made 
until after some intermediate proceeding shall have been 
had® A wide latitude of debate is allowed on a motion for 
1 See Burinot, p. 148. 
2 R. C. 8.c. 11, 8. 24, 
3 Com, S. 0. 30.