Conferences may be either simple or free. At a conference simply, written reasons are prepared by the House asking it, and they are read and delivered without debate, to the managers of the other House at the conference; but are not then to be answered.--3 _Grey_, 144. The other House then, if satisfied, vote the reasons satisfactory, or say nothing; if not satisfied, they resolve them not satisfactory, and ask a conference on the subject of the last conference, where they read and deliver in like manner written answers to those reasons.--3 _Grey_, 183. They are meant chiefly to record the justification of each House to the nation at large, and to posterity, and in proof that the miscarriage of a necessary measure is not imputable to them.--3 _Grey_, 255. At free conferences, the managers discuss _vivâ voce_ and freely, and interchange propositions for such modifications as may be made in a Parliamentary way, and may bring the sense of the two houses together. And each party reports in writing to their respective Houses the substance of what is said on both sides, and it is entered in their journals.--6 _Grey_, 220; 3 _Hats._ 280. (_Vide Joint Rules_, 1.) This report cannot be amended or altered as that of a committee may be.--_Journ. Senate_, May 24, 1796. A conference may be asked, before the House asking it has come to a resolution of disagreement, insisting or adhering.--3 _Hats._ 269, 341. In which case the papers are not left with the other conferees, but are brought back to be the foundation of the vote to be given. And this is the most reasonable and respectful proceeding. For, as was urged by the Lords on a particular occasion, "it is held vain, and below the wisdom of Parliament, to reason or argue against fixed resolutions, and upon terms of impossibility to persuade."--3 _Hats._ 226. So the Commons say "an adherence is never delivered at a free conference, which implies debate."--10 _Grey_, 147. And on another occasion, the Lords made it an objection that the Commons had asked a free conference after they had made resolutions of adhering. It was then affirmed, however, on the part of the Commons, that nothing was more Parliamentary than to proceed with free conferences after adhering; 3 _Hats._ 269; and we do in fact see instances of conference or of free conference, asked after the resolution of disagreeing.--3 _Hats._ 251, 253, 260, 286, 291, 316, 349, of insisting, _ib._ 280, 296, 299, 319, 322, 355, of adhering, 269, 270, 283, 300; and even of a second or final adherence.--3 _Hats._ 270. And in all cases of conference asked after a vote of disagreement, &c., the conferees of the House asking it are to leave the papers with the conferees of the other; and in one case where they refused to receive them, they were left on the table in the conference chamber.--3 _Hats._ 271, 317, 323, 354; 10 _Grey_, 146. The Commons affirm, that it is usual to have two free conferences or more before either House proceeds