And that said committee have leave to report by bill or otherwise. Senator Downing moved that the further consideration of the resolution be postponed until to-morrow. The motion to postpone was lost by the following vote: NOES-Senators Allen, Baldwin, Ball, Bridges, Britts, Cresap, Dilley, Edwards, Gideon, Halliburton, Harmon, Hathaway, Jacobs, Kelly, Kost, McGinnis, Proctor, Saltonstall, Simrall, Vancleve, Walker, Wear, Webster, Wood, Yancey and Young-26. SICK-Senator Farris-1. ABSENT WITH LEAVE-Senators Hunter and O'Brien-2. The question recurring on the original resolution, as amended, the resolution was adopted. Senator Baldwin moved that the vote by which the resolution was adopted be reconsidered. Senator Wood moved that the motion to reconsider be laid on the table, which was agreed to. The President appointed, in accordance with the provisions of the foregoing resolution, the following Senators as a special committee: Senators McGinnis, Harmon and Baldwin. On motion of Senator Proctor, Senators McGinnis, Harmon and Balwin were granted leave of absence until Monday next. Senator Ryors called up the report of special committee made on yesterday in relation to committee clerks and rooms. Senator Yancey offered the following substitute for report of committee to ascertain what number of clerks are required for committees: The committees: Engrossed Bills, Enrolled Bills, Ways and Means, Judiciary, Criminal Jurisprudence, Accounts, Railroads and Internal Improvements shall each be entitled to one clerk. One or more committees requiring the services of a clerk may at any time apply by resolution for leave to employ a clerk, or such clerical force and rooms as may be necessary to the proper transaction of the business of the Senate; which was read and not agreed to by the following vote: AYES-Senators Ball, Britts, Cresap, Halliburton, Harmon, Hathaway, Kelly, Kost, Proctor, Vancleve and Young-11. NOES-Senators Allen, Baldwin, Bridges, Dilley, Downing, Gideon, Jacobs, McGinnis, Parcher, Ryors, Saltonstall, Simrall, Walker, Wear, Webster, Wood and Yancey-17. SICK-Senator Farris-1. ABSENT WITH LEAVE-Senators Hunter and O'Brien-2. ABSENT-Senators Edwards and Oliver-2. Senator Yancey moved to reconsider the vote by which the substitute was not adopted, which was not agreed to. Senator Bridges offered the following substitute for the report of the committee: Resolved, That the chairman of the different standing committees of the Senate be authorized to employ such clerks and secure such rooms as in their judgment may seem necessary for the transaction of such business as is likely to come before their committee. The substitute was adopted. The question recurring on the report of the special committee, as amended by the substitute of Senator Bridges, the report, as amended, was adopted. On motion of Senator Ball, the Senate adjourned until tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. EIGHTH DAY-THURSDAY, January 15th, 1885. Senate met persuant to adjournment. The President in the chair. A quorum present. Prayer by the Chaplain. Journal of yesterday read and approved. Senator Downing submitted the following report from the Committee on Joint Rules, which was read and adopted: MR. PRESIDENT: Your committee appointed to confer with and report joint rules of the two Houses, beg leave to report that said committee have had under consideration the same, and report the following joint rules: JOINT RULES OF BOTH HOUSES. RULE 1. When the business requires the attendance of the Senate in the Representatives' chamber, they, with their Secretary, shall be conducted within the bar and there seated; and when so assembled, the President of the Senate shall preside, and every member of the Senate and House of Representatives shall be at liberty to make motions and debate, and the rules of the House of Representatives shall govern as if that House were in Committee of the Whole House. RULE 2. When a message shall be sent from one House to the other, it shall be announced by the Door-keeper thereof, and the import thereof respectfully communicated to the Speaker or President, as the case may be, by the person by whom it is sent. RULE 3. Bills may originate in either House, and may be amended or rejected by the other, and every bill shall be read on three different days in each House. [Const., art. 4, sec. 26.] RULE 4. All amendments adopted by either House to a bill pending and originating in the same, shall be incorporated with the bill by engrossment, and the bill, as thus engrossed, shall be printed for the use of the members before its final passage. The engrossing and printing shall be under the supervision of a committee, whose report to the House shall set forth, in writing, that they find the bill truly engrossed and that the printed copy furnished to the members is correct. art. 4, sec. 29.] [Const., RULE 5. If a bill passed by either House be returned thereto, amended by the other, the House to which the same is returned shall cause the amendment or amendments so received to be printed under the same supervision as provided in the next preceding rule, for the use of the members, before final action on such amendments. [Const., art. 4. sec. 30.] RULE 6. No amendments to bills by one House shall be concurred in by the other, except by a vote of the majority of the members. elected thereto, taken by yeas and nays, and the names of those voting for and against recorded upon the journal thereof; and reports of committees of conference shall be adopted in either House only by a vote of a majority of the members elected thereto, taken by yeas and nays, and the names of those voting recorded upon the journal. [Const., art. 4, sec. 32.] RULE 7. No bill shall become a law until the same shall have been signed by the presiding officer of each of the two Houses in open session; and before signing the bill he shall suspend all other business, and state that the bill will now be read. If no objections are made, the bill will then be read; after the reading of which he will attach his signature to the same, that it may become a law. The signing of the same shall be noted on the journal, and the bill immediately sent to the other house. If objections are made to the fourth reading of the bill, the objections shall then be heard, after which the bill shall take the course as prescribed in section 37, article 4 of the constitution. [Const., art. 4, sec. 37.] RULE S. When a bill has been signed, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Senate, if the bill originated in the Senate, and of the Chief Clerk of the House, if the bill originated in the House, to present the same in person, on the same day on which it was signed, to the Governor, and enter the fact on the journal. Every bill presented to the Governor, and returned within ten days, approved by him, shall become a law. [Const., art. 4, sec. 38.] RULE 9. Every bill, returned without the approval of the Governor, and with his objections thereto, shall stand as reconsidered in the House to which it is returned. The House shall cause the objections of the Governor to be entered at large upon the journal, and proceed at its convenience to consider the question pending, which shall be in this form: "Shall the bill pass, the objections of the Governor thereto notwithstanding?" The vote upon the question shall be by yeas and nays, and the names entered upon the journal. If two-thirds of all the members elected to the House vote in the affirmative, the presiding officer of that House shall certify the fact on the roll, attesting the same by his signature; the bill, with the objections of the Governor, shall then forthwith be sent to the other House, where like proceedings shall be had in relation thereto. If the bill receive a like majority of the votes of all the members elected to that House, the vote being taken by yeas and nays, the presiding officer shall thereupon in like manner certify the fact upon the bill. The bill thus certified shall be deposited in the office of the Secretary of State, as an authentic act, by the Clerk of the House, if it originated in the House, or the Secretary of the Senate, if it originated in the Senate. The bill shall become a law, in the same manner and with like effect as if it had received the approval of the Governor. [Const., art. 4, sec. 39.] RULE 10. All orders and resolutions requiring the approval of the Governor shall also be previously examined and signed, and shall be presented in the same manner and by the same person as provided in case of bills. RULE 11. When a bill or resolution, which shall have passed one House, shall be signed in the other, notice thereof shall be given the House in which the same originated. RULE 12. When any papers may come officially before either House of the General Assembly, or any communication of the Governor, and are proper to be acted upon by both Houses, the House before whom such papers are laid, or to whom such communications are made, shall, as soon as they have proceeded and acted upon the same, lay a copy before the other House. RULE 13. When a vacancy shall happen in either House, notice thereof shall be given to the other House. RULE 14. All messages and communications between the two Houses shall be conveyed by the Clerk of the House originating the same. RULE 15. When a bill has been reported upon by a committee of either House, and ordered to engrossment, three hundred (300) copies shall be printed, 75 for the use of the Senate and 225 for the use of the House; and when the passage of the bill is reported to the other House the officer reporting it shall deliver the printed copies with the original bill. RULE 16. Resolved, that there shall be a committee of five members, two from the Senate and three from the House, to be known as the "Joint Committee on Printing," to whom shall be referred all reports and documents from the eleemosynary institutions of the State, the penitentiary, all reports from the heads of departments and of special committees, documentary and evidence required to be printed by law, or by the order of either or both houses: Provided, however, when either house shall pass favorably upon any report or document, 1,000 copies each shall be printed for the appendix to the House and Senate journal in addition to the number required for the use of the Senate and the House. Senator Britts offered the following resolution, which was read and adopted: Resolved, that 250 copies of the rules of the Senate, joint rules and rules of the House, together with a list of the standing committees of the Senate and the House, and the officers of the Senate and House, be printed for the use of the Senate. Senator Farris presented a remonstrance from citizens of the county of Phelps against the submission of a prohibitory amendment to the constitution; which was referred to the Committeeon Constitutional Amendments. Senator Farris presented a remonstrance from citizens of Howell county against the submission of a prohibitory amendment to the constitution; referred to Committee on Constitutional Amendments. Senator Edwards presented a remonstrance from citizens of Warren county; also one from citizens of St. Charles county, against the submission of a prohibitory amendment to the constitution; both of which were referred to Committee on Constitutional Amendments. Senator Vancleve presented a remonstrance from citizens of Higbee, in Randolph county; also, one from citizens of Moberly, in Randolph county, against the submission of a prohibitory amendment to |