16. Before the same is presented, there shall be endorsed on each petition a brief statement of the subject matter thereof, and on each bill and joint resolution the title thereof, and in either case the name of the Senator presenting the same. In presenting a petition, the Senator shall briefly state from his place in the Senate Chamber the subject matter to which the petition relates.

17. The first reading of a bill or joint resolution shall be for information, and, if objection be made to it, the question shall be, "Shall the bill (or joint resolution, as the case may be), be rejected?” If no objection be made, or the question to reject be lost, the bill or joint resolution shall go to its second reading without further question. 18. Upon the second reading of a bill or joint resolution, the President shall state it as ready for commitment, amendment, or engrossment, and if committed, then the question shall be, whether to a select or a standing committee, or a committee of the whole. If to a committee of the whole, the Senate shall determine on what day. But if the bill or joint resolution be ordered to be engrossed, it shall be in order for its third reading any session after that day. No bill or joint resolution shall be committed or amended until it shall have been twice read.

19. When a question is lost on engrossing a bill, or joint resolution, for a third reading on a particular day, it shall not preclude a question to engross it for a third reading on a different day. After a third reading of a bill or joint resolution, no amendment (except to fill blanks) shall be received, except by unanimous consent of the members present; and the vote on its final passage shall be immediately taken without debate.

20. A bill or joint resolution may be committed at any time previous to its third reading.

21. In filling blanks, the largest sum and longest time shall be first put.

22. On the return of a bill, or joint resolution, from the House, with an amendment, it shall be placed with the third reading of bills, unless the Senate shall otherwise order. On the question of adopting the amendment the vote shall be taken on the final passage of the bill; and if the amendment be adopted by a constitutional majority, no further vote is necessary.

23. All bills and joint resolutions introduced, except local or legalizing bills, shall be printed, unless otherwise ordered by the Senate, and committees may order to be printed any bills under consideration by them, and any substitutes for bills or resolutions reported by them.

24. It shall be in order for the Committee on Engrossed and Enrolled Bills, on Rules and on Printing, to report at any time, when no member is addressing the Senate.

When any special order of the day is not proceeded with on the day assigned, it shall stand as a general order on each succeeding day until disposed of, unless otherwise ordered, but its consideration cannot be moved until that order of business is reached, when it shall be taken up in order of its file.

25. No special order shall be entered upon the calendar so long as any special order previously entered thereon remains undisposed of. 26. When the pending question is interrupted by a "Special Order," it shall, upon the disposal of the special order, be before the Senate in the same stage as if it had not been so interrupted.

27. Committees are permitted to employ clerks by the majority vote of the whole committee. The clerk shall be selected by such vote, and in like manner may be discharged for inefficiency or when the services of the clerk become unnecessary.

28. Clerks of Senate Committees, when not engaged in duties pertaining to such committees or work assigned them by the committee. chairman, shall be subject to the direction of the Secretary of the Senate, for any labor connected with the duties of his position or his assistants. The Secretary shall, from time to time, make detail from said clerks to assist in preparing copy or correcting proof for the daily journal.

29. All reports of committees on bills or resolutions shall be made in duplicate and be accompanied with the original bill or resolution to which the report relates. Providing that this rule shall not apply to the reports of Committees on Enrolled and Engrossed Bills.

30. When a vote is taken in any committee upon any bill or resolution before it, or on any motion relating to the merits thereof, the chairman shall see that no person is present except the members and clerk of said committee, unless otherwise ordered by the committee.

31. Smoking in the Senate Chamber is hereby prohibited while the Senate is in session. And any officer or employe who shall indulge in smoking while on duty in the Senate Chamber or doorways leading thereto, shall thereby subject himself to liability of discharge. 32. Admission to the floor of the Senate Chamber shall be granted by the door-keeper to the Governor and his Private Secretary, members of the House of Representatives, the State officers and their deputies, judges of the several courts, ex-members of the Legislature, ex-State officers, and the regular reporters of the Senate, and clerks of committees. No persons, except those herein specified, shall be

admitted, except upon special permission of the President of the Senate, or of a member of the Senate. And no person shall be permitted by members, or otherwise, to come upon the floor of the Senate to solicit or influence Senators in their official action, or to sell any article or to solicit subscriptions.

33. In case of disturbance or disorderly conduct in the lobby or gallery, the presiding officer shall have the power to order the same cleared.

34. Before acting on executive business, the Senate Chamber shall be cleared, by direction of the President, of all persons except members, the Secretary and Sergeant-at-Arms; the members enjoined, and the Secretary and Sergeant-at-Arms sworn, to observe secrecy.

35. When an adjournment has been ordered by a vote of the Senate, and before adjournment is declared by the President of the Senate, it shall be in order for the chairmen of the several committees to announce in open Senate the time and place of meeting of their respective committees.

36. No standing rule or order of the Senate shall be rescinded or suspended, nor shall any matter, tabled upon motion, be taken up, unless by a vote of two-thirds of the members present, except an order fixing the hour to which the Senate shall stand adjourned.

37. Resolutions, including concurrent and joint resolutions, shall not be acted upon by the Senate upon the day the same are introduced or received by the Senate, but shall lie upon the table for one legislative day, if any member object to the immediate consideration thereof. But if no member object, the same may have immediate consideration. Nothing in this rule shall abridge or prevent the usual right of reference to committee.

38. The rules of parliamentary practice comprised in Cushing's Manual shall govern the Senate in all cases to which they are applicable, and in which they are not inconsistent with the standing rules or orders of the Senate, and joint rules of the Senate and House of Representatives.

39. The duties of the officers and employes of the Senate are as stated in the paragraph relating thereto, and appended to these rules. The SECRETARY of the Senate shall have charge of the Secretary's desk, and shall see that no one is permitted therein except himself and those assisting him. He shall be responsible for the custody and safe-keeping of all bills, resolutions and other matters laid before or introduced into the Senate, except while the same are in the possession of the committee to whom the same shall have been referred, and when delivering the same to said committee he shall take a proper

receipt therefor. He shall see that the journal of each day's proceedings is correctly and fully kept, and fully made up before the next day's session, and be responsible for its safe-keeping. He shall have control of Room 25, which is assigned to said Secretary for the use of himself and his assistants. He shall endorse on every bill or joint or concurrent resolution, the date of its introduction and by what Senator, or of its receipt from the House, and also what action relating thereto is taken by the Senate. The Assistant Secretaries shall be under his direction, and he shall assign them their several duties in connection with the duties of the Secretary's desk.

The SERGEANT-AT-ARMS shall wear the appropriate badge of his office; shall attend the Senate during its sessions; shall aid in the enforcement of order, under the direction of the President of the Senate; shall execute the commands of the Senate from time to time, together with such process, issued by the authority thereof, as shall be directed to him by the presiding officer; shall see that the rule prohibiting smoking in the Senate Chamber is strictly enforced; shall, upon the request of any five members, have the Senate Chamber lighted up during any evening within the session, except Sunday, to an hour not later than 10 P. M.; shall see that no person, except one authorized to do so, disturbs or interferes with the desks of the members, or with the books, papers, etc., thereat, shall see that the printed bills and daily journals are, at the earliest practicable period, properly distributed and filed upon the desks of Senators; shall have charge of the files in the Senate bill room, and shall see that no copy of bill is given out except to or upon the order of the President, a Senator, or State officers; shall see that an additional door-keeper is detailed for duty at the Senate Chamber upon each day within the session, except Sunday, from 8:30 A. M. to 10 P. M., but should not five members of the Senate desire to occupy the chamber to that hour, the detail may be relieved at 9 P. M.; shall have charge of the messengers of the Senate and see that they severally perform their duties, and shall promptly report to the President of the Senate any inefficiency or violations of duty on the part of said messengers. He shall direct the file clerk and bill clerk, if any employed, in the discharge of their duties.

The door-keeper of the Senate shall wear his appropriate badge of office; shall have special charge of the main door of the chamber during the sittings of the Senate, and shall see that the other doors of the Senate are properly attended to; shall have general charge and oversight of the additional door-keepers of the Senate; shall detail such of the additional door-keepers for such general or special duties as the

Sergeant-at-Arms may deem proper or necessary for the efficiency of the Senate and the protection of property within the chamber; shall see that the rule relating to admission to the floor of the chamber is strictly enforced; shall, ten minutes before the opening of each session of the Senate, see that the floor is cleared of all persons not entitled to occupy the same during the session; shall attend to seating visitors, and shall announce all committees and messages from the governor or House.

The janitors of the House shall have charge, under the direction of the Sergeant-at-Arms, of the cloak and retiring rooms adjoining the chamber, and shall see that the same are kept in proper order.

The messengers of the Senate shall attend the Senate during its sitting, and perform the duties generally devolving on like employes. While the Senate is sitting, two of their number shall be detailed for service in front of the secretary's desk. The messengers shall be under the direction of the Sergeant-at-Arms, while the Senate is not sitting, and shall attend to such duties as he may assign them.