13.

When a Senator shall be called to order he shall sit down; and every question of order shall be decided by the President without debate, subject to an appeal to the Senate.

14.

If a Senator be called to order for words spoken, the exceptionable words shall be immediately taken down in writing by the Senator calling to order, that the President may be better enabled to judge of the matter.

15.

The first hour of each morning's sitting may be devoted to the reception and disposal of petitions, memorials and remonstrances, motions, resolutions and the introduction of bills; after which the orders of the day, or other proper business shall be announced, always commencing with the unfinished business of the last sitting. The first hour of the afternoon's sitting may be occupied in receiving and disposing of reports of committees, and in completing the business of the morning hour, at the expiration of which the Senate will again take up the orders of the day.

16.

Reports of committees may be signed by any member in behalf of the committee, and shall be by him presented to the Senate when the call for reports is made. The signer of each report shall be held responsible for the accuracy of its statements and the propriety of its language, and, when the same shall be under consideration, he shall be further liable to give additional statements of facts or other explanations in answer to the call of any Senator.

17.

The proceedings of the Senate, except when acting as in committee of the whole, embracing the titles of bills and such parts thereof as may be affected by the proposed amendments, and also the names of the Senators and the votes which they give on every question decided by yeas and nays, shall be, by the Secretary, accurately and concisely inserted in the journal.

18.

The subject matter of each and every bill and resolution shall be briefly indicated in its title by the mover; and every bill and resolution shall be properly folded and the name of the mover legibly written at the bottom of the same, before its introduction.

19.

All bills after the second reading, and all petitions, memorials, remonstrances, resolutions and other papers calling for legislative action, (except such as have been reported by a committee), no objection being made, shall be referred by the President to appropriate committees.

20.

Before any resolution, any petition or other paper addressed to the Senate shall be received and read, whether the same shall be introduced by the President or a Senator, the title shall be fairly endorsed thereon and a brief statement of its objects or contents shall be made by the introducer.

21.

Every motion shall be reduced to writing by the mover if required thereto by the President or a Senator, and a motion to lay another motion, the latter not being in writing, on the table, or otherwise to dispose of it, shall not be in order unless such motion relates to a pending bill, resolution or paper.

22.

Every bill shall receive three readings before it is passed; the President shall give notice at each reading whether it be the first, second or third; the last of which reading of public bills shall be at least twenty-four hours after the first reading, unless the Senate unanimously direct otherwise; provided that the bills may be read the second time by their title. Resolutions requiring the approbation and signature of the Governor shall be treated in all respects as bills, and the third reading of all bills of a public nature shall be ordered for some particular day. Each and every nomination made by the Governor, to be confirmed by the Senate, shall lie over at least twenty-four hours between such nomination and the confirmation thereof.

23.

On motion of a Senator, public bills, after the second reading, may be referred to committee of the whole.

24.

No amendment to a bill originating in the Senate shall be received at the third reading, but the bill may be committed to a Senator for amendment at any time before the passage.

25.

When a question is pending, no motion shall be received but -To adjourn; to adjourn to a day certain, or that, when the Senate adjourn, it shall be to a day certain; to take a recess; to proceed to the consideration of executive business; to lay on the table; to postpone indefinitely; to postpone to a day certain; to commit; to amend. Which several motions shall have precedence as they stand arranged, and the motions relating to adjournment, to take a recess, to proceed to the consideration of executive business, to lay on the table, shall be decided without debate.

26.

A call for the previous question shall not at any time be in order. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order, except when the Senate is engaged in voting.

27.

If the question in debate contains several points, the same may be divided on the demand of a Senator. A motion to strike out and insert shall not be divided, but the rejections of a motion to strike out and insert one proposition shall not preclude a motion to strike out and insert a different one, or a motion to simply strike out; nor shall the rejection of a motion simply to strike out prevent a subsequent one to strike out and insert.

28.

In filling blanks, the largest sum and the longest time shall be first in order.

29.

When the reading of a paper is called for, and the same is objected to by a Senator, the question shall be determined by a vote of the Senate.

30.

The yeas and nays shall be taken on a call of a Senator, and every Senator present shall vote unless excused by the Senate; but no Senator shall be compelled to vote who was absent when the question was stated by the President.

31.

No Senator in the minority, nor one who did not vote on the decision of the question, shall have a right to move a reconsideration thereof; nor shall any motion for reconsideration be in order unless made before the close of the next day of actual sitting of the Senate after that in which the vote was taken, and before the bill, resolution, report, amendment, address or motion upon which the vote was taken shall,. in the regular progress of business, have gone out of the possession of the Senate.

32.

On all questions in the decision of which a simple majority is required, when the Senate is equally divided, the Secretary shall take the casting vote of the President. In all such cases a motion for reconsideration, if made in time, shall be in order from any Senator who voted on the question.

33.

The President shall have the right to call upon any Senator to discharge the duties of the chair, whenever he shall find it necessary temporarily to retire; but such substitution shall not extend beyond more than one adjournment.

34.

The Senate having taken the final vote on any question,. the same shall not again be in order during the same session,, in any form whatever, except by way of reconsideration, and when a motion for reconsideration has been decided, that decision shall not be reconsidered.

35.

No proposition to amend the rules of the Senate, or the joint rules of both Houses, shall be acted on until the same shall have been before the Senate at least twenty-four hours; and no rule of the Senate shall be suspended except by the vote of three-fourths of the members present.

36.

Messages shall be sent to the House of Representatives by the Secretary or Assistant Secretary.

37.

Reporters may be placed on the floor of the Senate, under the direction of the Secretary, with the approbation of the President.

38.

No person shall be admitted within the lobby of the Senate Chamber except the Governor, Treasurer of the State, Secretary of State, Auditor of Accounts, members of the other House, Judges of the Supreme Court, Senators and Representatives in Congress, Ex-Governors and Lieutenant-Governors, Ex-Judges of the Supreme Court, Ex-Senators of the State Senate, District Judge, Circuit Judge, and Attorney of the United States, members of other State Legislatures, Clerk and Assistant Clerks of the House of Representatives, and the Secretary of Civil and Military Affairs, and such ladies and gentlemen as the President or a Senator may introduce.

39.

When in session, the Senators shall sit with their heads uncovered.

40.

Upon any disorderly conduct in the gallery, the President may order the same to be cleared.

41.

Whenever a bill or resolution is laid on the table, by order of the Senate, and shall have remained on the table twentyfour hours, it shall be subject to be taken up by the Chair and presented for the consideration of the Senate, without a call or order on the subject.

42.

There shall be one door-keeper, one assistant door-keeper, and two messengers of the Senate.

43.

CHOICE OF SEATS.

At nine o'clock on the morning of the first day of the session, and before the Senate shall be called to order, the Secretary shall place in a box prepared for the purpose, fourteen ballots, designating by name the several counties in the