BILLS.

(See Rules XX to XXX.)

Manuscript bills must be endorsed by the Senator's name
desiring to introduce the same, and given to the Secretary to
have copied.

Bills must be presented for their first reading without inter-
lineations or erasures.

A bill is open to amendment upon its second reading with
debate limited to the amendment, but when the reading has
been completed and the question is: "Shall the bill be
engrossed for a third reading?" the main question is debata-
ble.

When a bill has been returned from the House endorsed:
"Passed by yeas and nays, with proposed amendment," the
amendment shall be read and the President (calling the atten-
tion of the Senator responsible for the bill) puts the question :
"Will the Senator concur in the House amendments?" If
the Senate (upon motion of the interested Senator) concurs,
the bill in its amended form is at once put upon its passage
by yeas and nays. If the Senate refuses to concur the bill
fails. But a message accompanied by the bill may be sent to
the House asking them to recede from said amendment, and
if they refuse, a Conference Committee upon the disagreeing
votes of the two Houses on said bill may be appointed. It
the report of the Conference Committee on said bill be
adopted in its favor, the bill must be passed by yeas and nays.

JOINT RESOLUTION.
(See Rules XXII, and succeeding ones under the head of "Bills.")

All joint resolutions introduced must be endorsed by the
name of the Senator presenting the same, and be printed in
full upon the Journal.

PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS.
(See Rule VII.)

Senators having petitions and memorials to present, must
endorse the same with their names, and the object of the