amended or modified on roll-call by an affirmative vote of seventy-seven members. In case any bill or resolution has been referred to a committee other than the Appropriations Committee and remains in committee undisposed of, it shall be in order after reports of standing committees, for any member, on any Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday in which the House is in session to move that the committee be discharged from the consideration of such bill and that the bill be placed on the House calendar and such motion shall prevail. if supported by a vote of seventy-seven members, provided the member making such motion shall, before the adjournment of the morning session of the preceding legislative day, have filed with the Clerk and posted on the bulletin Board a written copy of such motion. The Clerk shall read such motion before adjournment of said session. 13. All committees shall be appointed by the Speaker unless otherwise especially directed by the House. The Speaker shall be ex officio member of each committee. COMMITTEES. 14. The following standing committees shall be appointed by the Speaker with leave to report by bill or otherwise and to them respectively shall be referred all bills or resolutions pertaining to the subjects indicated by the names of said respective committees, to wit: Agriculture Appropriations Banks, Banking and Building and Loan Associations Charities and Corrections Civil Service . Consisting of 31 members . Consisting of 43 members . Consisting of 21 members . Consisting of 17 members .Consisting of 23 members . Consisting of 27 members Consisting of 7 members . Consisting of 27 members ..Consisting of 17 members Consisting of 25 members . Consisting of 7 members ..Consisting of 17 members . Consisting of 21 members . Consisting of 21 members . Consisting of 31 members .Consisting of 45 members ... Consisting of 35 members ..Consisting of 23 members ..Consisting of 19 members .Consisting of 21 members .. Consisting of 19 members ..Consisting of 27 members . Consisting of 31 members . Consisting of 21 members ...Consisting of 19 members . Consisting of 25 members 16 members . Consisting of 29 members ..Consisting of 19 members ..Consisting of 5 members ..Consisting of 5 members . Consisting of 5 members ...Consisting of 29 members A majority of any committee shall constitute a quorum but the question of the presence of a quorum of a committee, shall not be raised on the consideration of a bill or resolution in the House, unless the same question has been raised before the committee. In case of failure of the Chairman of any Committee to call a meeting of such committee upon the request of a member, then 50 per cent or more of the members of such committee shall have the right to call a meeting of such committee. The chairman or acting chairman of each committee of the House shall keep, or cause to be kept, a record in which there shall be entered (a) The time and place of each hearing, and of each meeting of such committee. (b) The attendance of committee members at each meeting. (c) The name of each person and address, appearing before the committee, with the name of the person, persons, firm or corporation and address, in whose behalf such appearance is made. (d) The vote of each member on all motions, bills, resolutions and amendments acted upon. Such a record shall be ready and approved before the expiration of ten days after each committee meeting, or at the next regular meeting of the committee. Every committee hearing shall be open to the public. There shall be filed, in the proper envelope, with every bill or resolution reported upon, a sheet containing the foregoing information as to such bill or resolution, with a duplicate thereof to be filed by the Clerk of the House numerically by the number of the bill in such form as to be most accessible for the use of the members and the public, during the session, and at the end thereof in the office of the Secretary of State. 15. When a resolution shall be offered, or a motion made to refer any subject other than bills, and different committees, shall be proposed, the question shall be taken in the following order: The Committee of the Whole House, A Standing Committee or a Select Committee. 16. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Enrolled and Engrossed Bills to examine all engrossed bills, correct any mistakes therein and report the bills to the House forthwith; and it shall be in order for it to report at any time. 17. When any bill, is about to be considered by a committee the introducer of the bill shall be notified of the time and place where such bill shall be considered by such committee. BILLS. 18. When the roll shall be called for the first introduction of bills, each member may introduce three bills. And should the call be suspended by adjournment or otherwise, the calling of the roll shall be taken up when that order of business is reached, at the point at which it was discontinued, and this order shall be observed until the roll call shall be alphabetically completed. No bill shall be introduced at the expiration of three weeks after the adoption of the permanent rules, except upon each Tuesday and except by Standing Committees of the House. 19. The Clerk shall indorse on every bill the number thereof, the name of the member introducing it, the date of the introduction, and the several orders taken thereon; and when printed, said several endorsements shall be printed at the head of the bill. 20. When a bill is introduced it shall be read by its title, ordered printed and referred to the proper committee for consideration. It is hereby made the duty of any member introducing a bill proposing an amendment to any statute law of this State, to underscore the word or words comprising the proposed amendment, and no bill shall be printed until such word or words are underscored. All parts of bills which are underscored shall be printed in italics. 21. The Clerk shall, as soon as any bill is printed, place the same in the postoffice boxes of the members; and printed bills shall be furnished to others than public officers and members of the General Assembly and the press only on the written order of the Speaker, the President and the President pro tem of the Senate, and members of the General Assembly. 22. Amendments to bills may be offered at the conclusion of the second reading, and all amendments to bills, except amendments by striking out, shall be printed when adopted, and shall in like manner be deposited in the postoffice boxes of the members one day before such amended bill shall be read the third time. 23. After the second reading of the bill, and amendments, if any, the Speaker shall state the bill is ready to be ordered engrossed for a third reading. 24. The vote on the full passage of all bills shall be by yeas and nays, upon each bill separately, and shall be entered upon the Journal, and when a bill shall fail to receive a constitutional majority upon its passage, the Speaker shall declare that the bill has failed to pass. 25. When an emergency is expressed in the preamble or body of an Act, as a reason why such Act should take effect prior to the first day of July next after its passage, and when such an Act contains a clause or proviso fixing such time prior to the first day of July, the question shall be, "Shall the bill pass?" and if decided affirmatively by a vote of two-thirds of the members elected to the House, then the bill shall be deemed passed; and, if, upon such vote a majority of said members elected but less than two-thirds thereof, vote affirmatively on said question, then the vote on said bill shall be deemed reconsidered, and the bill subject to amendment by striking out such part thereof as expresses an emergency and the time of taking effect, and then said bill shall be under consideration upon its third-reading, with the emergency clause and time of taking effect stricken out. 26. Every bill shall be read at large on three different days. 27. When a bill passes it shall be certified by the Clerk, who, at the foot thereof, shall note the day it passes. REFERENCES. 28. Appropriation bills which contain provisions relating to nothing else than the appropriation, and apportionment bills which contain provisions relating to nothing else than the apportionment, shall be in order in preference to any other bills unless otherwise ordered. All bills for appropriations of money from the State treasury, or providing for the expenditure of money when referred to other committees and by them reported back to the House with favorable recommendations, shall be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations for its consideration before being finally acted upon by the House. The Speaker may reserve any bill or resolution introduced of general State importance, or in case of emergency, on the Speaker's table and lay the same before the House; after the same has been printed, and with the consent of the House the same may be considered as in Committee of the Whole House, in the order in which such measures may be entered; otherwise, or upon the failure of the House to consent to such reference, the bill or resolution shall be referred to its appropriate committee; provided, however, that no bill or resolution may be considered in the Committee of the Whole House, until two days after the same shall have been printed and placed in the postoffice boxes of the members. 29. All questions relating to the priority of business to be acted upon, not otherwise provided for in these rules, shall be decided by the Speaker without debate. 30. When a question has been once made and carried in the affirmative or negative, it shall be in order for a member of the majority to move for reconsideration thereof, or give notice that he will make such motion within the time prescribed by this rule, for which time he shall control the motion. But no motion for the reconsideration 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; nor shall any motion for reconsideration be in order unless within the next day of actual session of the House: Provided, that should the member giving notice of a motion to reconsider, not make such motion within the time prescribed by the rule, any other member voting with the majority, may make such motion, within the next succeeding legislative day. Such motion shall take precedence of all other questions, except a motion to adjourn: And, provided, further, that when a bill has passed the House it shall require a constitutional majority to reconsider the vote by which the same was passed: And provided also, when a motion to reconsider the vote by which a bill is passed is made, or a notice is given that such motion will be made within three days of the last legislative day of the session, it will then be in order for any member to move that such motion or notice of motion may be taken up and disposed of. PRACTICE. 31. Upon the demand of five members, which may be oral or in writing and made before or after a viva voce vote, or before or after a division, the yeas and nays shall be taken on any question, and entered upon the Journal. Such demand shall be made before proceeding to other business. 32. Upon a call of the House for the yeas and nays on any question the names of the members shall be called in alphabetical order. 33. A motion to strike out the enacting words of a bill shall have a precedence of a motion to amend, and, if carried, shall be considered equivalent to its rejection. 34. No person shall visit or remain at the Clerk's table, while the yeas and nays are being called, and in the performance of their duties, all clerks of the House shall be under the supervision and control of the Speaker. 35. A motion for commitment, until it shall be decided, shall preclude all amendments to the main question. 36. A motion to lay any particular proposition on the table shall apply to that particular proposition only. 37. No motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under color of an amendment. 38. Every motion shall be reduced to writing, if the Speaker or any member desires it. 39. When a motion is made, it shall be stated by the Speaker or if it be in writing, it shall be read aloud by the Clerk before debate thereon. 40. After a motion is stated by the Speaker, or read by the Clerk, it shall be considered in possession of the House, but may be withdrawn at any time before decision or amendment, by leave of the House. 41. Any member may call for a division of the question, when divisible, but a motion to strike out and insert shall be indivisible. 42. Whenever any member is about to speak in debate, or deliver any matter to the House, he shall rise and respectfully address himself to "Mr. Speaker," and confine himself to the question under debate, and avoid personality, and no motion shall be considered in order unless made from the seat occupied by the member. 43. When two or more members arise at once, the Speaker shall name the member who is to speak first. 44. All questions, except as provided in Rules 45 and 51, whether in the Committee of the Whole or in the House, shall be disposed of in the order in which they are moved, except that in filling up blanks the largest sum and the most remote day shall be the first put. 45. The rules of the House shall be observed in all committees as far as may be applicable. 46. When the committee reports a substitute for an original bill, with the recommendation that the substitute pass, it shall be in order to read the substitute a first time at once and order it printed. 47. Petitions, memorials and other papers addressed to the House may be presented by any member, who shall state briefly to the House the contents thereof, which may be received, read and referred on the same day. 48. No member shall speak longer than thirty minutes at one time, nor more than once on the same question, except by leave of the House; but the member who introduces a measure shall, in all cases, have the right to close the debate, and this right shall not be denied him even after the previous question has been ordered, although he may have spoken once on the same subject: Provided, the member so speaking shall not be allowed more time in all than is permitted by the rules of the House to other members. 49. While the Speaker is putting a question or addressing the House, or when a member is speaking, no person shall walk out of or across the room, or pass between the member speaking and the Chair, or entertain private discourse. 50. If any member, in speaking or otherwise, transgresses the rules of the House, the Speaker, shall or any member may, call him to order. 51. When a question is under debate, no' motion shall be received butTo fix the time to which adjourn. To adjourn. A call of the House. To lay on the table. The previous question. To commit. To postpone to a day certain. To postpone to a day indefinitely. To amend. Which several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they are named; and no motion To postpone to a day certain. To commit, or To postpone indefinitely, Being decided, shall again be allowed on the same day, or at the same stage of the bill or proposition. Provided, that when a call of the House, or a roll call upon any bill, resolution or motion, shall disclose the fact that there is not a quorum present, then the following shall be the order of business A motion: To produce a quorum by compelling the attendance of absent members. To fix the time to which to adjourn. A motion for a call of the House. 52. The rules of parliamentary practice comprised in Cushings' Parliamentary Rules and Practice, shall govern the House in all cases in which they are applicable and in which they are not inconsistent with the standing rules and orders of the House, or the joint rules of the Senate and House of Representatives. 53. If a question be lost by adjournment of the House, and revived on the succeeding day, no member who has spoken on the preceding day shall be prmitted to speak again on the same question without leave. 54. Any two members shall have the liberty to dissent from, and protest, in respectful language, against any act or resolution which they shall think injurious to the public or any individual, and have the reasons of their dissent entered upon the Journal. 55. Questions shall be distinctly put in this form, viz: "As many as are of the opinion that" (as the case may be) say "Aye," and, after the affirmative vote is expressed, "As many as are of the contrary opinion say, "No."" If the Speaker doubt, or if a division is called for, the House shall divide: those in the affirmative shall first rise from their seats, and afterwards those in the negative. 56. In forming a committee of the Whole House, the Speaker shall leave his chair, and a chairman to preside in the committee shall be appointed by the Speaker. ADJOURNMENT. 57. The hour at which every motion to adjourn is made shall be entered on the Journal. Ten o'clock in the morning shall be the standing hour to which the House shall adjourn unless otherwise ordered by a majority vote. 58. A motion to adjourn shall be decided without debate and not be subject to amendment. 59. No rule shall be suspended without the vote on roll call or division, of two-thirds of the members present, nor shall any rule be altered or amended without one day's notice being given of the motion thereof, and the vote on roll call of two-thirds of the members present, but any amendment or alteration having the approval of the Rules Committee may be adopted on roll call or division by a majority of the members elected. PREVIOUS QUESTION. 60. The previous question shall be put in this form: "Shall the main question be now put?" and until it is decided shall preclude all amendments or debate. When it is decided that the main question shall not now be put, the main question shall be considered as still remaining under debate. The effect of the main question's being ordered shall be to put an end to all debate, and bring the House to a direct vote, first, upon all amend |