gallery to be cleared; and during the discussion, the doors shall remain closed, unless otherwise directed by the Senate. When nominations shall be made in writing by the Governor of the State to the Senate, a future day shall be assigned for taking them into consideration, unless the Senate unanimously direct otherwise.

Enrolling and Engrossing Clerks:

RULE 57. The Committee on Engrossment and Printing, and the Committee on Enrolled Bills, shall each appoint the necessary clerks for said committees unless otherwise ordered by the Senate.

Times of meeting:

RULE 58. The times of meeting of the Senate, during its present session, unless otherwise ordered, shall be ten o'clock in the forenoon and two o'clock in the afternoon.

Protests of Senators-how entered:

RULE 59. Any Senator voting in the minority on any subject, and protesting against the vote of the Senate, may have his protest. entered on the journal, if the tenor and language of such protest would have been admissible in the discussion of the subject.

Journal-yeas and nays:

RULE 60. The Senate shall, from time to time, publish a journal of its proceedings, and the yeas and nays on any question shall be taken and entered on the journal at the motion of any two Senators. Whenever the yeas and nays are demanded, the whole list of Senators shall be called, and the names of the absentees shall be noted and published in the journal.

Reconsideration:

RULE 61. When any question may have been decided in the Senate, on which two-thirds of the Senators present are necessary to carry the affirmative, any Senator who voted on that side which prevailed may be at liberty to move a reconsideration; and a motion for reconsideration shall be decided by a majority vote of the Senate.

Indefinite Postponement:

RULE 62. When a question is postponed indefinitely, the same shall not be acted upon during the session.

Bills-engrossed:

RULE 63. All bills ordered to be engrossed shall be executed in a fair, round hand.

Ayes and noes:

RULE 64. No Senator shall call for the ayes and noes on any question after the same has been declared to be a vote by the President.

Senators shall not vote—when:

RULE 65. No Senator shall be permitted to vote on a subject in which he has a personal or pecuniary interest.

Absentees:

RULE 66. No Senator shall absent himself from the service of the Senate, unless he has leave, or be sick, or unable to attend.

Three readings-when required:

RULE 67. All resolutions proposing amendments to the Constitution shall receive three readings previous to their being passed; and the President shall give notice at each reading, whether it be the first, second or third; which reading shall be on three different days. And all resolutions to which the approbation and signature of the Governor 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; and all other orders, resolutions or votes to which the concurrence of the House may be necessary (except for adjournment), shall be read in the Senate, and laid on the table, on a day preceding that on which the same shall be moved, unless the Senate shall otherwise expressly allow by a vote of two-thirds of those present.

Rules and order of business-how changed:

RULE 68. No standing rule or order of the Senate shall be rescinded or changed without one day's notice being given of the motion therefor; nor shall any rule be suspended, or order of business, as established by the rules, be postponed or changed, except by a vote of at least two-thirds of the Senators present.

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE.

RULE 69. It shall be a standing order of the day, throughout the session, for the Senate to resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole.

RULE 70. In forming the Committee of the Whole, the President shall leave the chair and appoint a chairman to preside.

RULE 71. Upon a bill being committed to Committee of the Whole, the same shall be read by the Secretary, and then read and

debated by clauses, leaving the preamble to be last considered. The body of the bill shall not be defaced or interlined. After the report, the bill shall be subject to be debated and amended by clauses, before a question to engross and print it be taken.

RULE 72. All amendments made to an original motion in committee shall be incorporated with the motion and so reported.

RULE 73. All amendments made to reports, resolutions or other matter committed to Committee of the Whole, shall be noted and reported as in case of a bill.

RULE 74. The rules and proceedings of the Senate shall be observed in Committee of the Whole, so far as they may be applicable.

RULE 75. A majority of the Senators elect shall be a quorum to do business, and if the committee find itself without a quorum, the chairman shall cause a roll of the Senate to be called, and thereupon. the committee shall rise, the President resume the chair, and the chairman shall report the cause of the rising of the committee and the names of the absentees to the Senate, which shall be entered on the journal.

RULE 76. A motion for the rising of the Committee of the Whole shall always be in order unless a member of the committee is speaking or a vote being taken, and shall be decided without debate.

STANDING COMMITTEES.

RULE 77. The following standing committees, to consist of five members each (excepting the Committee on Judiciary, the Committee on Ways and Means, the Committee on Internal Improvements and the Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence, each of which shall consist of seven members) shall be appointed by the President, with leave to report by bill or otherwise :

1.

A Committee on Claims.

2. A Committee on Engrossment and Printing.

6.

A Committee on Railroads and Internal Improvements. 7. A Committee on Judiciary.

9. A Committee on Public and Normal School Education.

10.

A Committee on Federal Relations.

11.

A Committee on Constitutional Amendments.

12. A Committee on Agriculture.

13. A Committee on Privileges and Elections.

17. A Committee on Public Grounds and Buildings at the Seat of Government.

18. A Committee on Penitentiary.

19. A Committee on Senatorial and Representative Apportion

24.

A Committee on State University.

25. A Committee on Deaf and Dumb Asylum.

26. A Committee on Swamp Lands.

27. A Committee on State Printing.

28. A Committee on Immigration.

29. A Committee on Retrenchment and Reform.

30. A Committee on Mines and Mining.

31.

A Committee on Insurance.

32. A Committee on County Boundaries.

33. A Committee on Township Organization. 34. A Committee on Manufactures.

35. A Committee on Justices of the Peace.

RULE 78. Any Senator appointed upon any of said committees, may resign at any time by leave of the Senate, or may be, by leave of the Senate, transferred from one committee to another.

RULE 79. In cases not provided for by the above rules, the Senate shall be governed by the rules laid down in Smith's Digest and Jefferson's Manual.

Report of Committees:

RULE 80. Reports of Special or Standing Committees of the Senate relating to the appropriation, expenditure or improper use of money; also, Senate reports relating to the duty or management of any board of managers, directors, trustees or agents of any of the educational and eleemosynary institutions of the State, or of any State officer, or co-ordinate branch of the State government, shall, without further order, be perpetuated by printing the same in the appendix to the journal.

RULE 81. No report of a Committee of Conference, or any House amendment to a Senate bill, shall be declared adopted without the as

sent of a majority of all the Senators elect, and the ayes and nays shall be taken thereon and entered upon the journal.

Reference:

RULE 82. When motions are made to refer any subject, and different committees shall be proposed, the question shall be in the following order: The Committee of the Whole; a Standing Committee; a Select Committee.

RULE 83. No committee shall sit during the sitting of the Senate without special leave.

ORDER OF BUSINESS.

RULE 84. After the journal is read, business shall be disposed of in the following order:

1. Petitions, Memorials and Remonstrances.

5. Introduction of Bills.

6. Reports of Standing Committees.

7. Reports of Select Committees.

8. Second reading of Senate bills.

9. Third reading of Senate bills.

10. Bills, reports and other business on the table.
11. Messages from the House.

12. First reading of House bills.
13. House bills on second reading.
14. House bills on third reading.
15. Orders of the day.

RULE 85. The President shall, on each day, announce to the Senate the business in order, agreeably to the preceding rule; and no business shall be taken up or considered until the class to which it belongs be declared to be in order; but communications from the Governor may be read, and reports from the Committee on Enrollments received, at any time; and the unfinished business in which the Senate is engaged at the last preceding adjournment shall have preference of the order of business.

Senate bill No. 1, entitled "An act to repeal section 4193 of chapter 79, Revised Statutes of Missouri, 1879, entitled, 'Of banking-illegal currency,"" was taken up and read second time and referred to the Committee on Banks and Corporations.

Senate bill No. 2, entitled "An act to repeal section 6880, as