When any ordinance, resolution, petition or other matter has been referred to a committee, and the committee to which such has been referred fails, within a reasonable time, to report, or to offer a valid reason for its failure to report, any member of Council shall have the right to make a motion that such ordinance, resolution, petition, or matter be taken from the committee to which such matter has been referred; and the same may be laid before Council for action. This motion shall be decided without debate, provided that the member making the motion may state his reasons briefly for the motion.
('59 Code, § 111.21)