It’s also accepted practice in the senate that business is never discussed on the day that it is raised, but deferred to the following session.7 This is in case someone, after blurting out the first idea that enters his head, should then concentrate on bolstering his own proposals rather than those that might benefit the commonwealth, preferring to risk the general welfare rather than his own reputation, and all because of a perverse and stupid fear that he might have appeared too hasty at the outset.
