GENERAL ORDERS OF THE DAY.

63. The secretary shall make a list of all bills, resolutions, reports of committees, and other proceedings of the senate which are referred to the committee of the whole, and which are not made the order of the day, for any particular day, and to number the same; which lists shall be called the "General Orders of the Day;" and they shall be taken up in the order in which they are numbered, unless otherwise ordered by a majority of the committee.

Such general orders, together with all bills included therein required to be printed under the rules or orders of the senate, shall be printed and placed upon the members' desks at least one day before the same shall be considered in committee of the whole.

64. That it shall be the duty of the secretary to make a list of all bills, resolutions and other matters coming before the senate for final action, and place the same upon the calendar in the order in which they may have been acted upon in committee of the whole, and such calendar shall be printed and placed upon the members' desks at least one day before the matters included therein shall be considered.

DUTIES OF LEGISLATIVE EXPENSE COMMITTEE.

65. All propositions for the appointment of employes of the senate or for expenditures on account of the legislature, other than those provided by law, shall be referred to the committee on legislative expenses, without debate, and no appointment shall be made or expense incurred unless reported upon favorably by said committee, or unless their report be overruled by a three-fourths (%) vote of the whole senate. Said committee shall report to the senate the amount of compensation that shall be paid to each employe whose appointment is recommended by it. All propositions for extra compensation or gratuity shall be referred to said committee, and no extra compensation or gratuity shall be paid to any officer, employe or other person unless reported upon favorably by said committee, or unless this report be reversed by a three-fourths (4) vote of the whole senate.

SPECIAL ORDER.

66. When a time has been designated by the senate, whether by the adoption of the report of a committee or otherwise, for a particular or special order, the senate shall at such time proceed to the consideration of such order, and shall at such time, so designated, after considering the bill, resolution or measure included therein, unless the same shall be then otherwise disposed of, or the special order postponed to a day certain, immediately proceed to the third reading and final passage of the same, and during the consideration of such special order, Rule No. 16 shall be suspended and the debate thereon and all proceedings thereunder, including amendments and substitutions, shall be, as nearly as applicable, that of the committee of the whole.

JOURNAL HOW APPROVED,

67. The journal of each day's proceedings shall be open for correction at any time during the session of the succeeding day, and, unless eorrected on that day, shall stand approved.

PERMANENT RULES OF THE HOUSE, 1901.

MEETING, ROLL CALL, ETC.

1. The speaker shall take the chair at the time at which the house stands adjourned, and the house shall then be called to order and the roll of members called, and the names of all members present and of those excused shall be entered upon the journal of the house.

READING OF THE JOURNAL.

2. Upon the appearance of a quorum, the journal of the preceding day shall be read by the clerk, unless otherwise ordered, and any mistakes therein may be corrected by the house.

DUTIES OF SPEAKER.

3. The speaker shall preserve order and decorum, and shall decide questions of order, subject to an appeal to the house.

4. The speaker shall not vote on appeals from his own decisions.

DUTIES OF MEMBERS.

5. When the house adjourns the members shall keep their seats until the speaker announces the adjournment.

6. Every member, before speaking, shall rise from his seat and respectfully address the speaker, but shall not proceed to speak further until recognized by the chair; and when two or more members rise at once the speaker shall designate which shall speak first.

ORDER IN DEBATE.

7. No member shall speak more than twice on the same subject without. leave of the house, nor more than once until every member choosing to speak on the pending question shall have spoken.

MOTIONS.

8. No motion shall be debated or put unless the same be seconded. It shall be stated by the speaker before debate, and any such motion shall be reduced to writing if the speaker or any member desires it.

9. After a motion shall be stated by the speaker, it shall be deemed to be in possession of the house, but may be withdrawn by the mover at any time before amendment or decision; but all motions, resolutions or amendments shall be entered in the journal, whether they are rejected or adopted.

PRECEDENCE OF MOTIONS.

10. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, to lay on the table, or the previous question, to commit, to postpone to a day certain, to amend, or to postpone indefinitely, which several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they stand arranged.

MOTION TO ADJOURN.

11. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order; that and the motion to lie on the table shall be decided without debate.

THE PREVIOUS QUESTION.

12. The previous question shall be in this form: "Shall the main question be now put?"

It shall only be admitted when demanded by a majority of the members present, and its effect shall be (1) to put an end to all debate, and (2) bring

the house to a direct vote upon the amendments reported by a committee, if any; (3) upon the preceding amendments, and then (4) upon the main question. On a motion for the previous question and prior to the seconding the same by a majority of the house, a call of the house shall be in order, but after a majority shall have seconded such motion, no call shall be in order prior to a decision of the main question.

13. When the previous question is decided in the negative it shall leave the main question under debate for the residue of the sitting, unless sooner disposed of by taking the question, or in some other manner.

INCIDENTAL QUESTIONS OF ORDER.

14. All incidental questions of order arising after a motion is made for the previous question, during the pending of such motion or after the house shall have determined that the main question shall now be put, shall be decided, whether on appeal or otherwise, without debate.

PETITIONS, ETC.-HOW PRESENTED.

15. Petitions, memorials and other papers presented to the house shall be presented by the speaker or by a member in his place, and a brief statement of the contents thereof shall be made verbally and indorsed thereon, together with the name of the member introducing the same.

EVERY MEMBER TO VOTE UNLESS EXCUSED.

16. Every member who shall be present before the vote is declared from the chair, and no other, shall vote for or against the same, unless the house shall excuse him, or unless he is immediately interested in the question, in which case he shall not vote.

ORDER OF DOING BUSINESS.

17. When the speaker is putting the question, no member shall walk out or across the house; nor when a member is speaking shall any member entertain any private discourse, or pass between him and the chair.

DIVISION OF A QUESTION.

18. If the question in debate contains several points, any member may have the same divided. A motion to strike out and insert shall be deemed indivisible, but a motion to strike out being lost shall preclude neither amendment nor a motion to strike out and insert.

CALL TO ORDER WHILE SPEAKING.

19. A member called to order shall immediately sit down, unless permitted to explain; and the house, if appealed to, shall decide the case. If there be no appeal the decision of the chair shall be submitted to. On an appeal no member shall speak more than once without leave of the house, except when a member is called to order for offensive language, in which case there shall be no debate.

BILLS-HOW INTRODUCED.

20. Bills, memorials and joint resolutions may be introduced by an order of the house on the report of a committee, or by any member in his place, unless objected to by the house.

Every bill and resolution shall have prefixed thereto the name of the person introducing it, and when reported from a committee, the name of said committee and the name of the party introducing the bill shall be indorsed thereon.

21. All bills introduced in the house shall be so framed that when any subdivision, section or chapter of any existing law is to be amended, or when any subdivision, section or chapter of any repealed law is to be revived, the said subdivision, section or chapter shall in each case be given in full as it is designed to read when enacted, and no bill not so framed shall be received or read by the clerk unless otherwise specially ordered by the house.

The title of every bill shall indicate the subject-matter thereof, not merely

by reference to the page number or section of any existing law sought to be repealed or amended, but by such descriptive words as will indicate what subject the bill refers to.

All new matter contained in any bill which proposes to amend any section or subdivision of any existing law by inserting or adding such new matter shall be underscored, and when the bill is printed shall be italicized; and no bill not so framed shall be received or read by the clerk unless otherwise specially ordered by the house.

FIRST READING AND REFERENCE OF BILLS.

22. All bills, memorials and joint resolutions shall be read at length, upon their introduction, unless objected to.

If objection is made, the question shall be, "Shall the bill be rejected?" If no objection is made, or the question to reject is lost, the bill shall go to its appropriate standing committee, except when introduced by such committee. In such case it shall be read a second time and referred to the committee of the whole.

Every bill introduced, except when introduced by a committee as above provided, containing an amendment to an existing law of this state, shall first be referred to the appropriate committee of the house appointed with reference to the subject-matter contained in the law proposed to be amended.

All bills, whether emanating from the house or the senate, carrying an appropriation, shall be referred to the committee on appropriations for action by that committee before second reading of the bills.

SECOND READING OF BILLS.

23. All bills, memorials, orders, resolutions and votes requiring the approval of the governor, shall, after a second reading, be considered in a committee of the whole before they shall be finally acted upon by the house.

24. The final question, after consideration in the committee of the whole, of a bill or other paper originating in the house, shall be, "Shall it be engrossed and read a third time?" and upon every such bill or paper originating in the senate, "Shall it be read a third time?"

25. No amendments shall be received on the third reading, except to fill blanks, without unanimous consent of the house; and all bills and resolutions may be committed at any time previous to their passage, and if any amendment be reported on such commitment by any other than a committee of the whole, it shall be again read a second time, considered in a committee of the whole, and the question for third reading and passage then put.

26.

BILLS ON THIRD READING.

All bills, memorials and joint resolutions on their third reading shall be read at length.

SUSPENSION OF RULES TO HASTEN A BILL.

27. Every bill shall be read on three different days, unless in case of urgency two-thirds of the house deem it expedient to dispense with this rule; and no bill shall be passed until it shall have been read twice at length.

PROCEEDINGS ON PASSAGE OF BILLS.

28. No resolution that involves the expenditure of money, or joint resolution, shall be declared passed until voted for by a majority of all the members elected to the house, to be determined by a roll call. No motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under color of amendment.

No bill or resolution shall at any time be amended by annexing thereto or incorporating therewith any other bill or resolution pending before the house.

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.

29. In forming a committee of the whole house the speaker shall appoint a chairman to preside.

30. Bills committed to a committee of the whole house shall, in the committee of the whole thereon, be first read through, unless the committee shall otherwise order, and then read and debated by sections, leaving the title to be last considered. All amendments shall be noted in writing and reported to the house by the chairman.

ORDER OF PUTTING QUESTIONS.

31. All questions, whether in committee or in the house, shall be put in the order in which they are moved, except in the case of privileged questions, and in filling up blanks the largest sum and the longest time shall be put first. SENATE BILLS-HOW PROCEEDED WITH.

32. A similar mode of proceeding shall be observed with bills which have originated in and passed the senate as with bills originating in the house.

MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION.

33. When a question has been once made and carried in the affirmative or negative, it shall be in order for any member who voted with the prevailing party to move for the reconsideration thereof; but no action for the reconsidering of any vote shall be in order after a bill, resolution, message, report, amendment or motion upon which the vote was taken shall have gone out of the possession of the house announcing their decision; nor shall any motion for reconsideration be in order unless made on the same day on which the vote was taken or within the next two days of actual session of the house thereafter; and such motion shall take precedence of all other questions except the motion to adjourn; provided, that when notice of the intention to move such reconsideration shall be given by such member, the clerk of the house shall retain the said bill, resolution, message, report, amendment or motion until after the expiration of the time during which such motion can be made, unless the same is previously disposed of. A motion for reconsideration being put and lost shall not be renewed.

RULES OF THE HOUSE TO APPLY TO COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.

34. The rules of the house shall be observed in committee of the whole house so far as may be applicable, except that the yeas and nays shall not be called, the previous question forced, and speaking limited.

35. A motion that the committee rise shall always be in order, and shall be decided without debate.

COMMITTEES.

36. Standing committees shall be appointed by the speaker, as follows: