REGULATION OF SENATE'S PART OF CAPITOL. 49. The presiding officer of the Senate shall have the regulation of such parts of the Capitol, and of its passages, as are or may be set apart for the use of the Senate and its officers. [22 Jan., 1824-14 Feb., 1828. RESTRICTION ON PRESENTING REJECTED CLAIMS. 50. Whenever a claim is presented to the Senate and referred to a committee, and the committee report that the claim ought not to be allowed, and the report be adopted by the Senate, it shall not be in order to move to take the papers from the files for the purpose of referring them at a subsequent session, unless the claimant shall present a memorial for that purpose, stating in what respect the committee have erred in their report, or that new evidence has been discovered since the report, and setting forth the new evidence, in the memorial: Provided, That this rule shall not extend to any case where an adverse report, not in writing, shall have been made prior to the 25th day of January, 1842. [25 Jan., 1842-21 Dec., 1842. PENALTIES FOR VIOLATING CONFIDENCE OF SENATE. 51.—Any officer or member of the Senate convicted of disclosing for publication any written or printed matter directed by the Senate to be held in confidence, shall be liable, if an officer, to dismissal from the service of the Senate, and in the case of a member, to suffer expulsion from the body. JOINT RULES AND ORDERS OF THE TWO HOUSES CONFERENCES. 1. In every case of an amendment of a bill agreed to in one House, and dissented to in the other, if either House shall request a conference, and appoint a committee for that purpose, and the other House shall also appoint a committee to confer, such committees shall, at a convenient hour, to be agreed on by their chairmen, meet in the conference chamber, and state to each other, verbally or in writing, as either shall choose, the reasons of their respective Houses for and against the amendment, and confer freely thereon. [15 April, 1789. MESSAGE SENATE TO HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 2.- -When a message shall be sent from the Senate to the House of Representatives, it shall be announced at the door of the House by the Doorkeeper, and shall be respectfully communicated to the Chair by the person by whom it may be sent. MESSAGE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO SENATE. 3. The same ceremony shall be observed when a message shall be sent from the House of Representatives to the Senate. BY WHOM MESSAGES MAY BE SENT. 4. Messages shall be sent by such persons as a sense of propriety in each House may determine to be proper. |