The Chairman’s Handbook

A CHAIRMAN may be called upon to take the chair with the general approval of the assembly. If the call, however, be challenged, a member of the meeting of influential or official position, who is not prepared to undertake the office of chairman, should be requested to act as president during the election to the chair. And, subject to specific rule to the contrary, the right to propose such a president lies with those who have called the meeting. Their proposal, therefore, should be accepted without dispute; they, on their part, acting with the sole object of securing the right conduct of the election to the chair.