19. When a question has been once made and carried in the affirmative or negative, it shall be in order for any member of the majority to move for the reconsideration thereof; 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 Senate, announcing their decision; nor shall any motion for reconsideration be in order, unless made on the same day on which the vote was taken, or within the two next days of actual session of the Senate thereafter.

20. When the Senate are equally divided, the secretary shall take the decision of the president.

21. All questions shall be put by the president of the Senate, either in the presence or absence of the president of the United States, and the senators shall signify their assent or dissent, by answering, viva voce, ay or no.

22. The vice president, or president of the Senate pro tempore, shall have the right to name a member to perform the duties of the chair; but such substitution shall not extend beyond an adjournment.

23. Before any petition or memorial, addressed to the Senate, shall be receiv 2

ed and read at the table, whether the same shall be introduced by the president or a member, a brief statement of the contents of the petition or memorial shall verbally be made by the introducer.

24. One day's notice, at least, shall be given of an intended motion for leave to bring in a bill; and all bills, after the first reading, shall be printed for the use of the Senate.

25. Every bill shall receive three readings previous to its being passed; and the president shall give notice at each, whether it be the first, second, or third; which readings shall be on three different days, unless the Senate unanimously direct otherwise. And all resolutions proposing amendments to the constitution, or to which the approbation and signature of the president may be requisite, or which may grant money out of the contingent, or any other fund, shall be treated, in all respects, in the introduction and form of proceedings on them, in the Senate, in a similar manner with bills.

26. No bill shall be committed or amended until it shall have been twice read; after which it may be referred to a committee.

27. All bills on a second reading shall first be considered by the Senate in the same manner as if the Senate were in

committee of the whole, before they shall be taken up and proceed on by the Senate agreeably to the standing rules, unless otherwise ordered. And when the Senate shall consider a treaty, bill, or resolution, as in committee of the whole, the vice president, or president pro tempore, may call a member to fill the chair, during the time the Senate shall remain in committee of the whole; and the chairman so called shall, during such time, have the powers of a president pro tempore.

28. The final question upon the second reading of every bill, resolution, constitutional amendment, or motion, originating in the Senate, and requiring three readings previous to being passed, shall be, "Whether it shall be engrossed and read a third time?" And no amendment shall be received for discussion at the third reading of any bill, resolution, amendment, or motion, unless by unanimous consent of the members present: but it shall at all times be in order before the final passage of any such bill, resolution, constitutional amendment, or motion, to move its commitment, and should such commitment take place, and any amendment be reported by the committee, the said bill, resolution, constitutional amendment, or motion, shall be again

read a second time, and considered as in committee of the whole, and then the aforesaid question shall be again put.

29. The titles of bills, and such parts thereof only as shall be affected by proposed amendments, shall be inserted on the journals.

30. The following standing committees, to consist of five members each, shall be appointed at the commencement of each session, with leave to report by bill or otherwise:

A committee on foreign relations.
A committee on finance.

A committee on commerce and manu-
factures.

A committee on military affairs.

A committee on the militia.
A committee on naval affairs.
A committee on public lands.
A committee of claims.

A committee on the judiciary.
A committee on the post office and
post roads.

A committee on pensions; and

A committee on the District of Columbia.

A committee of three members, whose duty it shall be to audit and control the contingent expenses of the Senate.

And a committee, consisting of three members, whose duty it shall be to examine all bills, amendments, resolutions, or motions, before they go out of possession of the Senate, and to make report that they are correctly engrossed; which report shall be entered on the journal.

31. All committess shall be appointed by ballot, and a plurality of votes shall make a choice. But when any subject or matter shall have been referred to a committee, any other subject or matter of a similar nature may, on motion, be referred to such committee.

32. When nominations shall be made in writing by the president of the United States to the Senate, a future day shall be assigned, unless the Senate unanimously direct othewise, for taking them into consideration. When the president of the United States shall meet the Senate in the Senate chamber, the president of the Senate shall have a chair on the floor, be considered as the head of the Senate, and his chair shall be assigned to the president of the United States. When the Senate shall be convened by the president of the United States to any other place, the president of the Senate and senators shall attend at the place appointed. The secretary of the Senate shall also attend to take the minutes of the Senate.