TEXASFORNIA LEGISLATIVE MANUAL FOR 1911 CONTAINING RULES OF THE SENATE AND HOUSE, AND JOINT RULES, STANDING COM- OF HOUSE, LIST OF SENATORS AND REPRESENTATIVES, OFFI- CALIFORNIA CONCURRENT RESOLUTION. SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 3. In the Senate, February 7, 1911, read second time and adopted. CLYDE D. SMITH, In the House, March 4, 1911, read second time and adopted. BOB BARKER, Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives. Resolved by the Senate, the House Concurring, That there be printed for the use of the House and Senate 300 copies of the Texas Legislative Manual, which shall contain the rules of the Senate, the rules of the House, and the joint rules of the Senate and House, all of which shall be properly indexed; a list of the standing committees of the two houses, including any changes made by either house, the names of the Senators and Representatives and their respective districts. It shall also contain the names of the officers of the House and Senate, and of the representatives of the press in attendance, the Constitution of this State, with amendments to date, and the United States, and the Committee on Rules of the House, acting with the Senate Committee on Rules, is hereby authorized and instructed to have copies bound and printed as follows, to wit: Two hundred and fifty copies to be bound in flexible Morocco covers, at an extra cost of not exceeding 25 cents per copy above the cost of the same books in flexible cloth, according to the specifications of the contract with the public printer. Provided further, That the name of each member and officer of the House and Senate be embossed upon the back of one copy of said book of rules, said copy to be the property of the member or officer who is to have his name upon said copy. Three-fourths of such copies of each binding shall be for the use of the House and one-fourth for the use of the Senate, and they shall be paid for out of the contingent funds of the two houses, in said proportion; provided, that the public printer shall not be paid for composition but one time. The said bound volume to be in the hands of the members of this House and Senate within thirty days from the passage of this resolution. 532125 RULES OF ORDER OF THE Thirty-second Legislature OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. RULES OF THE SENATE. QUORUM. 1. Two-thirds of all the Senators elected shall constitute a quorum, but a smaller number may adjourn (or recess) from day to day, and compel the attendance of absent members. (Constitution, Art. III, Sec. 10.) 2. In case a less number shall convene, the members present may send the Sergeant-at-Arms, or any other person or persons, for any or all absent members. ABSENTEES. 3. No member shall absent himself from the sessions of the Senate without leave unless he be sick or unable to attend. 4. A call of the Senate may be demanded by five members, and if there be any absent the names of the absentees shall be called again. If they do not answer, the Sergeant-at-Arms or a special messenger may be sent for them, and the question pending shall be, without a motion, laid on the table until the absentees appear or the call be suspended. OFFICERS OF THE SENATE. 5. The Lieutenant Governor of the State shall, by virtue of his office, be President of the Senate; decide all questions of order, subject to appeal by any member; have direction and control of all committee clerks and employes of the Senate and assign them to their duties. He shall have control of such parts of the Capitol as have been, or may be, set apart for the use of the Senate and its officers. He shall have the right to name a member to perform the duties of the chair, but such substitution shall not extend beyond such time as a majority of the Senators present vote to elect another member in the place of the member so called to the chair by the Lieutenant Governor, and a motion shall be in order at any time such substitute |