by the Clerk. If a quorum be present, as shown by answering to their names, or by their presence in the chamber, the President shall again order the roll to be called, and if any Senator refuses to vote, he shall be noted as present, but not voting, unless the Senate shall have previously excused him from voting.

RULE 43. No Senator shall vote upon any question involving his election or the right to his seat.

RULE 44. After a vote is taken viva voce if the President is undecided, or if a division is demanded by any Senator (the demand being made before the result is announced) the Senate shall divide. Those voting in the affirmative will arise at the sound of the gavel and remain standing until counted and the count announced. Then those voting in the negative will arise and remain standing until counted and the vote is announced.

VOTING THE YEAS AND NAYS.

RULE 45. Any Senator may demand the yeas and nays on any question, but the demand must be made before a vote is taken or declared or before a division. The President may order the yeas and nays upon any question when he is in doubt as to the result of a vote taken viva voce.

RULE 46. The yeas and nays shall be called upon the election of all officers, a majority of those voting being necessary to a choice. If there be no choice in ten ballots, the person receiving the highest number of votes on the succeeding roll call shall be declared elected. (Sec. 33 R. S.)

RULE 47. The yeas and nays shall be called upon the passage of all bills and upon the adoption of all joint resolutions having the force and effect of law, the votes of a majority of all the Senators elected being required in each instance. (Sec. 9, Art. 2, Const.)

RULE 48. The yeas and nays shall be called upon motions to dispense with a constitutional rule, a three-fourths vote being necessary to suspend such rule; but in the event that a roll call immediately preceding such motion to dispense shows the presence of three-fourths of the members elected the rule may be suspended by a unanimous viva voce vote. (Sec. 16, Art. 2.)

RULE 49. The yeas and nays shall be called upon the adoption of all resolutions providing for the expenditure of money, a majority of all the Senators elected being necessary to the adoption of such resolution. (See Sec. 22, Art. 2, Const.)

RULE 50. The yeas and nays shall be called upon all bills or resolutions giving extra compensation to any officer or for the payment of any claim not provided for by pre-existing law; two-thirds of all the vote of all the Senators elected shall be necessary in each instance. (See Sec. 29, Art. 22, Const.)

RULE 51. The yeas and nays shall be called upon advising and consenting to appointments made by the Governor; and in each case the votes of a majority of all the Senators elected shall be necessary to confirmation. (Sec. 2, Art. VII, Const.)

RULE 52. The yeas and nays shall be called upon the adoption of all resolutions proposing amendments to the Constitution, and three-fifths. of the votes of all the Senators elected are necessary to the adoption of such resolution. (Sec. 1, Art. 16, Const.)

RULE 53. The yeas and nays shall be called upon the question of concurring in amendments made by the House to all bills or joint reso

lutions passed by the Senate; and upon the adoption of the reports of all conference committees.

RULE 54. No other persons than the Clerks shall remain at the Clerk's desk while the yeas and nays are being taken or ballots are being counted.

RULE 55. After the roll is called and the vote announced any Senator may demand a verification of the roll call, which being ordered, the Clerk shall read first the names of those Senators voting in the affirmative and second those voting in the negative. If error is claimed a correction may be made by a vote of the Senate, but no Senator shall be permitted to change his vote as originally cast upon a verification of the roll call.

RULE 56. After the completion of the roll call and before the result is announced any Senator may change his vote. A Senator who is absent may at any time within two days thereafter, by leave of the Senate, have his vote recorded on the question, provided it does not alter or change the result of the vote on the question as originally taken.

RULE 57.

DECORUM AND DEBATE.

When a Senator desires to address the Senate or to make a motion he shall rise and respectfully seek recognition of the presiding officer by saying, "Mr. President." The President shall recognize him by announcing "The Senator from -," naming his county. If the county is represented by more than one Senator, the announcement shall be, "The Senator from Mr.

RULE 58. When two or more Senators seek recognition of the Chair at the same time, the President shall decide who shall speak first, and the other must renew his request for recognition later.

RULE 59. No Senator shall speak more than twice to the same question except in committee of the whole Senate, or by leave of the Senate; and the Senator speaking shall confine himself to the question under debate, and avoid personality.

RULE 60. A Senator shall not, at any time, speak upon a bill or motion introduced by himself longer than fifteen minutes, and any Senator not longer than ten minutes without the unanimous consent of the Senate.

RULE 61. Any Senator while discussing a question may read or cause to be read from books, papers or documents any matter of reasonable length pertinent to the subject under consideration without asking leave. The President shall decide upon the relevancy of the matter thus read and upon the limitation as to length, but this decision shall be subject to appeal.

RULE 62. Any Senator may call for a statement of the pending question, which the President may give while seated.

RULE 63. Any Senator may call for a division of the question, and the decision of the President as to its divisibility shall be subject to appeal as in questions of order.

RULE 64. All questions of order shall be decided by the President without debate; such decisions shall be subject to appeal to the Senate by any two Senators; on which appeal no Senator shall speak more than once, unless by leave of the Senate, and the President may speak in preference to Senators, arising from his seat for that purpose.

RULE 65. If any Senator, in speaking or otherwise, transgress the rules of the Senate, the President shall, or any member may, call him to order; and the Senator called to order shall take his seat, if required to do so by the President, until the question of order is decided.

RULE 66. If the decision be in favor of a Senator called to order, he shall be at liberty to proceed; if otherwise he shall not be permitted to proceed, in case any Senator objects, without leave of the Senate.

RULE 67. If a Senator call another to order for words spoken in debate, he shall, if required by the President, reduce to writing the language used by the Senator which he deemed out of order.

BILLS.

RULE 68. Bills shall be introduced either by a Senator in his individual capacity or as the report of a committee, in the regular order of business, or at other times on leave of the Senate upon a statement of the objects of the bill.

RULE 69. All bills shall be legibly written, typewritten, or printed, and shall bear the name of the author and must in all respects as to form comply with the laws and the rules of the Senate.

RULE 70. All bills shall have noted in their title a distinct reference to the subject or matter to which they relate, and, if they propose the amendment or repeal of any law, to the section proposed to be amended or repealed.

RULE 71. In all the bills introduced which seek to amend existing statutes any new matter contained therein shall be underscored by the author, and when printed the matter so underscored shall be printed in italics, and when amendment is sought by the omission or elimination of matter in an existing law the author shall indicate such omission or elimination by asterisks and the printer shall follow such indicated marks in copy. No bill shall be sent to the printer by the Clerk which does not conform to these requirements.

RULE 72. Upon the first reading of a bill and before it is printed the author may by leave of the Senate make corrections in the form or phraseology of a bill, but after the bill has been read the second time such changes must be made in regular form by amendment.

RULE 73. If opposition be made to a bill on the first reading, the question shall be, "Shall the bill be rejected?" If the bill is not rejected, it shall pass to a second reading in the order of proceeding.

RULE 74. All bills shall be read the second time in the order in which they are introduced, and unless made a special order, shall be placed upon the calendar and read the third time in the order in which they are directed to third reading.

RULE 75. On the second reading of a bill the President shall state that it is ready for commitment or engrossment; if no motion or order be made to the contrary, it shall be committed to the committee of the whole Senate to be considered in its order; if the bill be ordered to be engrossed, the Senate shall direct on what day it shall be read the third time; but no bill, having been amended, shall be read the third time without being actually engrossed. (See Rule 80.)

RULE 76. Amendments to all House bills, made by the Senate, shall be engrossed in like manner as Senate bills, preparatory to their third reading.

RULE 77. When a question is lost on ordering a bill to be engrossed for a third reading on a particular day, it shall not preclude a motion to order it to be engrossed for a third reading on a different day, unless a division be called for; but if, on a division, the question on engrossing a bill without including the time for its third reading, shall fail, the bill shall be considered as lost.

RULE 78. After commitment and report to the Senate, or at any time before its passage, a bill or resolution may be recommitted. RULE 79. No bill or joint resolution shall be made a special order except by a vote of two-thirds of the members elected.

RULE 80. All bills and resolutions reported by a committee, with recommendation for passage or adoption, or ordered to be read the third time without reference, shall, unless the Senate otherwise order, be placed on the calendar for the second day following their being so reported or ordered, and the calendar for each day shall contain a list of all bills for third reading on the succeeding day.

RULE 81. Bills standing in order for third reading shall be taken up and read without a motion to that effect, and (unless otherwise ordered by the Senate) the question shall be put, "Shall the bill pass?"

RULE 82. When any bill which has been set for third reading on a given day shall for any reason be not read on that day, it shall stand for third reading on the first succeeding day when bills for third reading shall be reached in the regular order of business.

RULE 83, When a bill has been ordered for third reading on a certain day or at a certain hour it shall not sooner be taken up except upon a two-thirds vote of the Senate.

RULE 84. In case a Senate or House bill is amended before being placed upon the calendar for third reading, the Clerk shall note the fact on the calendar that it has been amended.

RULE 85. On the passage of all bills making appropriations of money, or in concurring in House amendments thereto, a separate vote on any item or items therein shall, on demand of any five Senators, first be had by yeas and nays, and entered upon the Journal; and every such item failing to receive the votes of a majority of all members elected to the Senate, as required by the Constitution, shall be stricken from the bill before the vote is taken upon its final passage.

RULE 86. When a bill has passed the Senate, the President or Clerk shall read its title, and the President shall demand if the Senate agree to its title; and if the Senate is agreed the Clerk shall make out the title accordingly, and shall certify the passage of the bill upon the back thereof.

RULE 87. No bill having been passed or resolution adopted, shall be delayed in transmission to the House because a motion for reconsideration has been made and remains undisposed of.

RULE 88. When a motion to reconsider is laid upon the table it shall not carry the bill or resolution with it.

RULE 89. All bills and joint resolutions introduced shall be printed. and distributed for the use of Senators.

AMENDMENTS.

RULE 90. No motion or proposition upon a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under color of an amendment. RULE 91. A motion to strike out and insert shall be deemed divisible; and a refusal to strike out shall be equivalent to agreeing to the matter in that form, but shall not preclude fruther amendment by way of addition.

RULE TB. Matter inserted in or stricken fro ma bill by amendment RULE 92. Matter inserted in or stricken from a bill by amendment ment, thus restoring it to its original form, but this result may be reached by reconsideration, if in order.

RULE 93. After bills have been read the third time they shall not be amended, except by commitment to a committee with instructions to amend, which instructions shall embody the amendment or amendments proposed.

RULE 94. No bill or resolution shall at any time be amended by annexing thereto or incorporating therewith any other bill or resolution. pending before the Senate.

RESOLUTIONS.

RULE 95. Resolutions may be offered by a Senator in his individual capacity or as a report of a committee in the regular order of business, or at any other time on leave of the Senate.

RULE 96. When a resolution is offered in the Senate or upon the first reading of a resolution received from the House it shall go over for one day unless the Senate by a vote decides without debate upon its immediate consideration, or fixes a future time for its consideration, or refers it to a committee.

RULE 97. No Senate resolution proposing to appropriate money shall be in order, but money appropriated by law for contingent expenses of either branch of the General Assembly may be disbursed by resolution of such branch. (State vs. Oglevee, 36 O. S., 324.)

PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS.

Rule 98. Petitions or memorials may be presented by any, Senator or by a committee in the regular order of business, or on leave at other times, and shall be referred to appropriate committees, upon motion, without putting such motion, unless objection is made, in which case the Senate shall decide.

RULE 99. No petition or memorial shall be printed unless by special order of the Senate.

PROTESTS.

RULE 100. Any Senator may protest against any act or resolution of the Senate, and such protest and the reasons therefor, shall,, without alteration, commitment or delay, be entered upon the Journal. Art. II, Const.)

(Sec. 2,

RULE IOI. All protests shall be couched in parliamentary language and come within the rules of Senatorial courtesy.

MOTIONS AND QUESTIONS.

RULE 102. Every motion shall be reduced to writing if the President or any Senator so desires; and whenever an amendment is offered to any bill or resolution under consideration by the Senate, or any amendment to such an amendment, the Senator proposing the same shall reduce it to writing and forward it to the Clerk's desk.

RULE 103. The following questions shall take precedence in the order named: