Bills.

General appropriation bills. All general appropriation bills shall be referred to the Committee on Appropriations, except river and harbor, agricultural, Army, Military Academy, Indian, Naval, pension, and Post-Office......

Limitations to amendments which may be proposed

to....

Amendments proposing new items of appropriation shall before being offered be referred. No amendment proposing general legislation shall be proposed to any general appropriation bill...... No amendment to provide for a private claim shall be offered unless to carry out existing law..... Bills, private, may be referred to the Court of Claims. Business. Order of morning...... Business of the Senate continued from session to session. The legislative

C.

Calendar of general orders. At the expiration of the

morning business, the Senate shall take up the.... 8,9 Subjects on the Calendar to be taken up in their order. 8, 9 Every bill and joint resolution reported from a committee, and bills and joint resolutions from the House of Representatives, read twice but not referred, shall be placed on the........

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To proceed to the consideration of any other bill on the, out of its order, a privileged motion.

To pass over the pending subject on the, a privileged motion....

To place pending subject at the foot of the, a privileged motion..

Call of the Senate. When a question is raised as to the
presence of a quorum, the Chair shall direct the roll
to be called...

Capitol building. The Senate wing of the Capitol build-
ing, its corridors and passages, to be under the con-
trol of the Committee on Rules .....
Certificates of election of Senators to be recorded in well-
bound book.....

Chief Clerk, when to perform duties of the Chair
Claims rejected by the Senate can not be again referred
unless new evidence be presented..

Claims adversely reported on can not be withdrawn with-
Petitions and papers relating to

out leaving copies.
private.....

The papers may be sent to the proper officer by the Secretary. Where acts have passed for private....... Papers in relation to, to be transmitted by Secretary of Senate to committee having claim under consideration. After adverse report agreed to papers can not be withdrawn from Senate files unless on new evidence... Closed doors. On the discussion of a subject which may require secrecy, the galleries shall be cleared and the doors closed..

......

Commit. After the third reading and before the passage of a bill a motion may be made to

When a question is pending, the order stated in which a motion may be made to

A motion to, not open to amendment except to add in-
structions..

Committee of the Whole. All bills and joint resolutions
shall, before passage, be first considered as in
When a bill is recommitted and again reported, it shall
be again taken up as in

Treaties when acted upon in executive session shall be
first considered as in......

Committee on Rules, to have control of Senate wing of the
Capitol building, its corridors, etc..

Committees. Order in which the Chair shall call for reports of.
The standing committees, unless otherwise ordered, shall
be appointed by ballot...

A majority of votes necessary to the choice of a chairman. Select committees and the residue of the standing committees may be chosen by a plurality.....

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Vacancies in committees when filled shall be only to fill
up the number of members.....
Enumeration of the standing committees to be appointed
at the commencement of each Congress......
A motion to refer to a standing committee shall take pre-
cedence of a motion to refer to a select committee .... 26
A motion to refer shall not be open to amendment, except
to add instructions. . . . .

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All reports of committees shall lie one day for consideration

Committees to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of
the Senate, on Printing, and on the Library, shall con-
tinue and have power to act until their successors are
appointed...
Committees of conference. Reports of committees of confer-
ence shall be always in order, except, etc., and the
question of their consideration shall be immediately
put without debate ....

Concurrent and other resolutions.

Order in which the Chair

shall call for, under "morning business" Conference. Reports of committees of conference shall always be in order, and the question of their consideration be immediately put without debate........... Confidential communications from the President, and all treaties, proceedings, and remarks thereon, shall be kept secret.

Confidential business of the Senate. Penalties for disclosing

the

Contingent fund of the Senate shall be referred to the Committee on Contingent Expenses. All resolutions for the payment of money from the....

Rule. Clause. Page.

Court of Claims. To refer private bills to the.
Credentials of Senators elect shall always be in order, and be
proceeded with until disposed of by the Senate. The
presentation of

D.

Daily sessions. Commencement of...

Day certain. When a question is pending, a motion may be made to postpone to a..........

Debate. If a Senator in speaking, or otherwise, transgress

the rules, the Presiding Officer shall, or any Senator
may, call him to order ...

When called to order he shall sit down, and shall not proceed without leave of the Senate..

If leave be granted to proceed, it shall be on motion, and determined without.....

If a Senator be called to order for words spoken in debate, the exceptionable words, if required, shall be taken down

The Presiding Officer shall name the Senator who is to speak, who, in all cases, shall be the Senator who shall first address the Chair..

.....

Debate. No Senator shall interrupt another without his con-
sent, to obtain which he shall first address the Chair..
No Senator shall impute to another Senator any conduct
or motive unworthy or unbecoming a Senator ...
No Senator shall refer offensively to any State of the Union.
No Senator shall speak more than twice on any one ques-
tion on the same day without leave of the Senate, to
be determined without..
Upon the merits of the question. A motion to take up a
subject shall be decided without....

Petitions and memorials to be presented and referred
without .....

Rule. Clause. Page.

No Senator to speak but once, and for five minutes only, on bills and resolutions upon the Calendar not objected to. A motion to lay before the Senate any bill or other matter sent to the Senate by the President or House of Representatives shall be decided without....

A motion made before 2 o'clock to proceed to the consideration of any matter shall be determined without.. A motion to change the order of special orders or to proceed to the consideration of other business shall be decided without ...

Decision is announced. No Senator shall, under any circumstances, be permitted to vote after a...

But he may, for special reasons, by unanimous consent, change or withdraw his vote after a.

Any motion or resolution may be withdrawn, except a motion to reconsider before an amendment, ordering the yeas and nays, or before a ....

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Discharge of a committee. A motion to discharge a commit-
tee from a subject shall lie one day for consideration.. 26
All subjects from which a committee shall be discharged
shall also lie one day for consideration....
Division of a question. If the question in debate contain
several points any Senator may have the same divided 18
A motion to strike out and insert shall not be divided...
Doors to be closed. On the discussion of any business which
may in the opinion of a Senator require secrecy, upon
a motion made the Presiding Officer shall direct the .. 35

E.

Exceptionable words shall be taken down. If a Senator be called to order for words spoken in debate, the.......

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Excused from voting. In calling the yeas and nays, each
Senator, when his name is called, shall answer without
debate, unless for special reasons he be ..
Excused from voting. When reasons shall be assigned for not
voting, their sufficiency shall be determined without
debate....

These proceedings shall be after the roll is called, and
before the decision is announced
Executive business shall be decided without debate. A mo-
tion to proceed to consideration of...

Rule. Clause. Page.

The President shall have a seat on the right of the Chair
when he shall meet the Senate for consideration of ... 36
The Senate shall be cleared of all persons except the offi-
cers in attendance (who shall be sworn to secrecy) when
acting upon..

Unless the Senate is in open Executive session.
All confidential communications made by the President,
and all treaties, and remarks, votes, and proceedings
thereon, shall be kept secret, except as provided......
Any person who shall disclose the secret proceedings of
the Senate shall, if a Senator, be liable to expulsion; if
an officer, to dismissal

All documents or papers communicated to the Senate by
the President or the head of any Department, relating
to any matter secret or confidential under the rules,
shall be considered as confidential....
Proceedings upon treaties. (See Treaties.)
Proceedings upon nominations. (See Nominations.)
Executive record. The President shall, from time to time,

be furnished with an authenticated transcript of the.. No further extracts shall be furnished by the Secretary without an order of the Senate.....

Executive proceedings of the Senate shall be kept in a separate book....

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Extra copies of documents shall be referred to the Committee on Printing. Motion to print . . . . .

When the cost of additional copies shall exceed five hundred dollars the concurrence of the House shall be

necessary

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Extracts from the Executive Journal shall not be given without an order of the Senate..