If the Senate concurs the bill is returned to the Assembly and is sent to the Enrolling Clerk, who makes a copy thereof, as is elsewhere described. When enrolled it goes to the committee on Enrolled Bills, who compare it with the engrossed bill. When found or made correct, they report the bill to the Assembly as correctly enrolled. The engrossed bill is filed with the Chief Clerk. The enrolled bill is then endorsed by the Chief Clerk, as having originated in the Assembly, for the information of the Governor, in case he vetoes it; then it is signed by the Speaker and sent to the President of the Senate for his signature thereto. It is then sent by the Chief Clerk of the Assembly to the Governor for his approval. The Governor, if he approves the bill, informs the House in which It originated of the fact and that he has deposited it with the Secretary of State. If he vetoes the bill, information of the fact is given to the House in like manner, whereupon, the question shall be, "Shall the bill pass, notwithstanding the objections of the Governor?" The vote shall be taken by ayes and nocs, and shall be lost, unless two-thirds of the members present vote in favor of the passage of the bill, over the Governor's veto. Concurrence of the Senate by a twothirds majority of the Senators present is necessary.

This is the ordinary process of a bill through all of its stages until it becomes a law.

A bill of great interest or importance, or one which is warmly contested, may, by reason of majority or minority reports, special orders, re-commitments, amendments, substitutes, committees of conference, and various other parliamentary process, pass through a vast variety of stages not before enumerated.

Senate bills going into the Assembly, after passing the Senate, are read twice by title and then referred to the appropriate committee. After being reported to the House by the committee, the question shall be: "Shall this bill be ordered to a third reading?" unless there be an amendment offered to the same, which shall be acted upon before the bill is ordered to a third reading. If it is decided affirmatively and the bill passes in the order of "Bills on third reading," and when read in that order, the question is, "shall the bill be concurred in?" If concurred in, the bill is returned to the Senate with a message informing it of that fact. If an amendment be adopted to a bill, the Senate is so informed by message, and the amendment transmitted with the bill to the Senate. The question is, "Shall the Senate concur in the amendment adopted by the Assembly to the bill?"

If it is desired to hasten the passage of a bill, it is done by motion as follows: I move to suspend all rules which will interfere with the immediate consideration of bill No.

If this motion prevails, which requires an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the members present, the question will be put on passage of the bill, and if passed, will go at once to the Senate.

A bill to repeal section — -, of chapter · of the, (relating to statutes or general laws, designating the same, and also the subject, object or purpose of the section of the chapter repealed; and in the body of every bill, the full title of the act repealed, shall be recited at length).

Titles must be written inside the bill and endorsed upon the outside as fol lows.

RESOLUTIONS should not be entitled, but should have the name of the mover indorsed upon them. The same rule applies to amendments.

Resolutions are of no special form; the following may serve as a general guide in such matters:

Res. No. -, A.,

Resolved, That three thousand copies of the Governor's message be furnished by the public printer to the Sergeant-at-Arms, for the use of the Assembly.

AN ENACTING CLAUSE must precede the body of the bill-1

"MR. TUCKER."

It must invariably be in the following form: The people of the State of Wisconsin, represented in Scnate and Assembly, do enact as follows:-Const., Art. IV, Sec. 17.

Investigations.

When an investigation is required into any matter, the person most interested in having the Inquiry made, should move the appointment of a committee to take the subject in charge. This is done by resolution. The resolution should be so drawn as to state the precise subject to be investigated, and to give the committee all the power which the mover may deem necessary for a thorough examination into the subject matter to be laid before them; this should be done to prevent any misapprehension as to the intention and extent of the inquiry to be made. In case of the adoption of the resolution the mover, together with other members, will be appointed a committee. They have power to send for persons and papers. The form of a subpoena is as follows:

"THE STATE OF WISCONSIN,

"To

-: You are hereby commanded, that laying aside all business and excuse, you personally appear and attend before Messrs. ——, on the part of the Senate, and Messrs. — on the part of the Assembly, a joint committee appointed under a resolution of the Senate and Assembly, to investigate at the room of said committee ---- in the city of Madison, the capital of the State, on the day of ——, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and at the hour of in the noon, then and there, and from time to time, as required by said committee, to testify and give evidence upon the matters of inquiry before said committee.

"Hereof fail not, under penalty in such case made and provided. "Given at the Assembly Chamber, in the city of Madison aforesaid, this day of, A. D. 18-.

"Attest:

-, Presiding Officer.

-, Chief Clerk of the

*It is important that the titles of bills should be the same on the outside and inside of the bill, as the bill appears on the books of the Clerk by the indorsement, and is printed from the inside title and text.

1 Section 17, Article IV, Constitution of Wisconsin, provides that legislation shall be by bill, and the enacting clause is necessary to the constitutionality of the law.

In case of a refusal to appear, or a refusal to testify, the following form of certificate may be used: "To Hon.

"I,

-, (Presiding Officer).

chairman of the joint committee appointed to investigate do hereby certify that has been duly subpoenaed to appear before said committee, as will fully appear by the writ served, and affidavit of service accompanying same, on file with the Chief Clerk of the Assembly. "I further certify that said has failed to appear before said committee, according to the exigency or mandate of said writ or subpæna. "Dated, Madison,

18-, at

o'clock.

commanding

on the part of

Upon which a warrant in the following form may be used: "The State of Wisconsin to the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly: It appearing that a writ of subpoena, directed to him to personally appear and attend before Messrs. the Senate, and Messrs. on the part of the Assembly, a joint committee appointed under a resolution of the Senate and Assembly, to investigate - at the room of said committee, in the city of Madison, the capital of the State, the day of, A. D. 18-, at the hour of in the noon, then and there, and from time to time, as required by said committee, to testify and give evidence upon the matter of inquiry before said committee has been issued, and that the said writ of subpoena was duly personally served upon the said on the day of A. D. 18-, and returned as provided in section one of an act entitled 'an act concerning evidence and witnesses,' approved February, 3, 1857; and it further appearing by the certificate of the chairman of the said joint committee, that the said has failed or neglected to appear before the said committee in obedience to the mandate of the said subpoena; therefore, you are hereby commanded, in the name of the State of Wisconsin, to take the body of him, the said and bring him before the that he may testify and give evidence before the said committee, and answer for his contempt of the Assembly in not obeying the mandate of subpæna. Hereof fail not.

"Given at the

50

Chamber in the city of Madison aforesaid, this

day of

A. D. 18-.

-, (Presiding Officer).

"Chief Clerk of the

To which the return, in ordinary cases, would be: "By virtue of the within process, I did, on the the body of

the said

day of - 18-, arest and took him before the committee within named, and having refused to answer interrogatories propounded by said committee, I have him, by direction of said committee, now before the Assembly.

"Assembly chamber,

18-.

"Sergeant-at-Arms of the Assembly."

A resolution declaring the defaulter to be in contempt, is the next proceeding. The following form of such resolution was used at the session of 1858: Resolved, that the neglect or failure of to appear before the joint investigating committee composed of Messrs. of the Senate,

and Messrs.

instant, as

-, of the assembly, in compliance with the mandate of the writ of subpoena of this Assembly, served upon him on the fully appears by the said writ and the affidavit of the service thereof indorsed thereon, now on file with the Chief Clerk of this House, be and the said neglect and failure is hereby declared a contempt of this House."

This is followed by an interrogatory, as follows:

"Int. 1.-Why did you not appear before the joint investigating committee as required by the mandate of the subpoena served upon you the -inst. ?" To which the defaulter pleads before judgment is inflicted.