Endorsement on Petitions Presented. Rule 71. Before any petition or memorial addressed to the Senate shall be received and read, a brief statement of the contents therof shall be endorsed on the same, with the name of the Senator presenting it. Certain Questions Not Debatable. Rule 72. All questions relating to the priority of business shall be decided without debate. Proceedings When Senator Is Called to Order. Rule 73. When a Senator shall be called to order he shall take his seat until the President shall have determined whether he is in order, and every question of order shall be decided by the President, subject to an appeal to the Senate by any Senator; and if a Senator be called to order for words spoken, the exceptional words shall be immediately taken down in writing. Persons Entitled to Privilege of the Floor. Rule 74. No person shall be admitted within the bar of the Senate-unless by invitation of the President or a Senator-except the Governor, State Officers, Senators and Representatives in Congress, members of the House, ex-Senators, or any former incumbents of said offices respectively. Amendment or Repeal of Senate Rules. Rule 75. At least one day's notice shall be given of a motion to amend or repeal any of the Senate rules, which notice shall set forth in full the amendment proposed, and shall be entered in the Journal. Cushing's Law and Practice. Rule 76. The rules of parliamentary practice comprised in "Cushing's Law and Practice of Legislative Assemblies," shall govern in all cases in which they are not inconsistent with the standing rules and orders of the Senate. The resolution was adopted. By unanimous consent the Senate took up the order of Motions and Resolutions. Mr. Forrester offered the following: Senate resolution No. 2. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be and is hereby authorized to appoint two clerks to assist in the work of his office. The resolution was adopted. Mr. Condon offered the following: Senate resolution No. 3. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be and is hereby directed to invite the pastors of the several churches in the city of Lansing and other cities to open the daily sessions of the Senate with appropriate religious services. The resolution was adopted. Mr. Wilcox offered the following: Senate resolution No. 4. Resolved, That the Committee on Supplies and Expenses be and is hereby authorized to purchase suitable drinking water for the use of the Senate. The resolution was adopted. Mr. Hayes offered the following: Senate resolution No. 5. Resolved. That the Secretary of the Senate be and is hereby authorized and directed to purchase such supplies, furniture and furnishings as are necessary for the several offices, committee rooms and toilet rooms of the Senate and for the Senate Chamber. The resolution was adopted. Mr. Engel offered the following: Senate resolution No. 6. Resolved, That the Secretary be and is hereby directed to notify the House of Representatives and the Governor that the Senate has elected Senator Walter J. Hayes President pro tempore, Dennis E. Alward Secretary and James R. Davis Sergeant-at-Arms, and is now ready to proceed with the business of the session. The resolution was adopted. Mr. Bolt offered the following: Senate resolution No. 7. Resolved, That the Secretary of State be and is hereby requested to furnish the Lieutenant Governor and each of the Senators with the Compiled Laws. of 1915, the Public Acts of 1917 and 1919, and the Michigan Manual. The resolution was adopted. Mr. Riopelle offered the following: Senate resolution No. 8. Resolved, That all committee clerks shall, when not employed in committee work for the committees to which they are assigned, be under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate, and at the service of the Senators for their official business. The resolution was adopted. Mr. Johnson offered the following: Senate Resolution No. 9. Resolved, That the daily sessions of the Senate commence at two o'clock p. m., unless otherwise ordered. The resolution was adopted. Joint Convention Rules. Mr. Hicks offered the following: Senate concurrent resolution No. 1. Prescribing the Joint Convention rules for the Legislature. Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the following be and are hereby adopted as the Joint Convention Rules of the Senate and House of Representatives: Rule 1. Joint conventions shall be held in the hall of the house of representatives, and the president of the senate, or in his absence the president pro tempore of the senate, shall preside. Rule 2. The secretary of the senate and clerk of the house of representatives shall be secretaries of the joint convention. The proceedings of the joint convention shall be published with the journals of the house, and the final result, as announced by the president on the return of the senate to its chamber, shall be entered on the journals of the senate. Rule 3. The rules of the house of representatives, so far as the same may be applicable, shall govern the proceedings in joint convention. Rule 4. Whenever a president pro tempore presides, he shall be entitled to vote on all occasions, and in case of a tie the question shall be declared lost. Rule 5. Joint conventions shall have the power to compel the attendance of absent members in the mode and under the penalties prescribed by the rules of the house to which such members respectively belong, and for that purpose the sergeant-at-arms of each house shall attend. Rule 6. Joint conventions may adjourn from time to time, as may be found necessary, and it shall be the duty of the house of representatives to prepare to receive the senate, and of the senate to proceed to the hall of the house of representatives, at the time fixed by law or resolution, or to which the joint convention may have adjourned. Pending the order that, under rule 59, the concurrent resolution lie over one day. On motion of Mr. Hicks. The rule was suspended. The concurrent resolution was then considered and adopted. Joint Rules. Mr. Amon offered the following: Prescribing the Joint Rules of the Senate and House of Representatives. Resolved, by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That the following be and are hereby adopted as the Joint Rules of the Senate and House of Representatives: Rule 1. Each house shall transmit to the other all papers on which any bill or resolution shall be founded. Rule 2. When a bill or resolution which shall have passed one house is rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the house in which the same may have been passed. Rule 3. Messages from one house to the other shall be communicated by the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives, respectively, unless the house transmitting the message shall especially direct otherwise. Rule 4. It shall be in the power of either house to amend any amendment made by the other to any bill or resolution. Rule 5. In every case of a difference between the two houses upon any subject of legislation, the house wherein the difference arises shall advise the other house of the disagreement. Such other house shall then either recede from its position relative to the subject under consideration, or insist thereon and ask for a conference. Upon granting the request for a conference the house granting the request shall name three of its members as conferees on its part at said conference, and shall notify the other house of its action. Such other house shall thereupon name three of its members as conferees on its part at said conference. The bill under consideration shall be delivered to the conferees on the part of the house in which it originated. The conferees on the part of the two houses shall meet and consider the matters of difference between the two houses. In case the conferees of the two houses are unable to agree they shall report that fact to both houses, and the bill shall accompany the report to the house in which it originated. The situation shall then be the same as if no conference had been requested. In case of an agreement the conferees of the two houses shall make detailed report thereof, which report shall be signed by at least two of the conferees of each house, and the report, together with the papers in the case, shall be submitted to the house in which the bill originated. The vote shall be on the adoption of the conference report, and if the question shall be decided in the affirmative, the bill, together with the conference report, shall be transmitted to such other house with the information that the report has been adopted. If the question be decided in the negative the other house shall be notified thereof, and the situation shall then be the same as if no conference had been requested. When (the conference report having been adopted by one house) the report with the papers in the case shall have been transmitted to the other house, the question in such other house shall be on the adoption of the conference report. If the question shall be decided in the affirmative the bill shall be returned to the house in which it originated with the information that the other house has concurred in the adoption of the conference report, and the bill shall then be referred for enrollment, printing and presentation to the Governor. If the question shall be decided in the negative, the situation shall then be the same as if no conference had been requested. In either house the question on the adoption of the conference report shall not be subject to amendment or division, and the vote thereon shall be taken by yeas and nays. Rule. 6. It shall be in order for either house to recede from any subject matter of difference existing between the two houses at any time previous to a conference, whether the papers on which such difference has arisen are before the house receding, formally or informally. A majority shall govern, except in cases where two-thirds are required by the constitution; and the question, having been put and lost, shall not be again put the same day. The consideration thereof in other respects shall be regulated by the rules of the respective houses. Rule 7. In case each house adheres to its disagreement, the bill which is the subject of difference shall be deemed lost, and shall not be again revived during the same session in either house, unless by consent of three fourths of the members present of the house reviving it. Rule 8. The same bill shall not amend or repeal more than one act of incorporation; nor shall the same bill appropriate public money or property to more than one local or private purpose. Any bill appropriating moneys for the payment of the officers of the government shall be confined to that purpose exclusively. Rule 9. Whenever there shall be an election of any officer in joint convention the result shall be certified by the president of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives; shall be announced by the presiding officers to their respective houses; shall be entered on the journal of each; and shall be communicated to the governor by the secretary of the senate and clerk of the house of representatives. Rule 10. Whenever both houses, by the constitutional vote, direct that any bill shall take effect immediately, a statement shall be added thereto at the enrollment of the bill in words to this effect: "This act is ordered to take immediate effect." Rule 11. Proposals for amendments to the constitution shall be by joint resolution, which shall take the same course as a bill. Rule 12. Whenever a bill shall have been passed by both houses of the Legislature, the objections of the governor to the contrary, notwithstanding, or whenever a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution shall have been agreed to by both houses in the manner prescribed by the constitution, such bill or such joint resolution shall be duly enrolled and signed by the presiding officers of both houses. The secretary of the senate and the clerk of the house shall then each attach a certificate to such enrolled copy, to the effect that the same has been passed or agreed to, as the case may be, by the senate and house respectively, in accordance with the provisions of the constitution, and shall forthwith file the same in the office of the secretary of state. Rule 13. The title of every bill to amend or repeal existing laws passed prior to the date of the last general compilation shall refer to the chapter of the compilation containing such act, and to the sections proposed to be amended or repealed. When a bill to amend an existing law is printed, words proposed to be added to such law shall be enclosed in brackets; the omission of words shall be indicated by stars; and when the proposed alteration is of such character that it cannot readily be indicated in either of the foregoing ways, it shall be indicated by printing in italics the parts differing from the existing law. Rule 14. The legislative postoffice shall be kept open every week day from 8 o'clock a. m. to 9 o'clock p. m., and on each Sunday from 12 o'clock noon until 1 o'clock p. m., and the mail shall be delivered to the Lansing postoffice in time for the outgoing trains on Sunday evenings. Rule 15. As soon as may be after the announcement of the standing committees of the two houses, the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives shall prepare and have printed a legislative handbook containing information as to the district, home postoffice, Lansing address and profession or occupation of each Senator and Representative. Such handbook shall also contain a list of the standing committees of each house showing membership of each committee, a list of officers and employes of each house and such other matter as the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives deem advisable. Pending the order that, under rule 59, the concurrent resolution lie over one day, On motion of Mr. Amon, The rule was suspended. The concurrent resolution was then considered and adopted. Mr. McRae offered the following: Senate resolution No. 10. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate be and is hereby authorized and directed to have mailed to citizens of Michigan, on request therefor, copies of Senate or House bills, and Senate or House journals; and also, on request of the President or any Senator, to have mailed copies of such bills and journals, and such other mail matter as is declared by the President or any Senator to pertain wholly to official business. The expense necessary to be incurred pursuant to the provisions of this resolution shall be certified to the Committee on Supplies and Expenses and be reported to the Senate by such committee, and upon the adoption of the report of such committee, a voucher shall be is sued for the payment of the same in the same manner as other expenses of the Legislature are required to be paid. The resolution was adopted. Mr. Bryant offered the following: Providing for the appointment of assistant postmaster of the Legislature. Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), That R. Marvin Dickinson be and is hereby appointed assistant postmaster of the Legislature. Pending the order that, under rule 59, the concurrent resolution lie over one day. On motion of Mr. Bryant, The rule was supended. The concurrent resolution was then considered and adopted. Mrs. Hamilton offered the following: Senate resolution No. 11. Resolved, That a committee of three Senators be appointed by the President, to join such committee as may be appointed by the House of Representatives, to wait upon the Governor and inform him that the two Houses have completed their organization and are ready to receive any communication he may desire to make to the Legislature. The resolution was adopted. The President appointed as such committee, Senators Hamilton, Engel and Wood. Mr. Clark offered the following: Resolved, That the President appoint a committee of five Senators whose duty it shall be to group the Senate committees and assign clerks and committee rooms for the same. The resolution was adopted. The President appointed as such committee, Senators Bryant, Clark, Forrester, Brower and Vandenboom. Mr. Ross offered the following: Senate resolution No. 13. Resolved, That the President of the Senate be and is hereby authorized to appoint a clerk and a messenger for the business of his office. The resolution was adopted. Mr. McRae moved that when the Senate adjourns to-day it stand adjourned until to-morrow at 12:45 o'clock p. m. The motion prevailed. Mr. Clark moved that the Senate take a recess until 2:30 o'clock p. m. The Senate reconvened at the expiration of the recess and was called to order by the President. A quorum of the Senate was present. Appointments by the President. The President announced the following appointments: Clerk-Margaret De Groot. Messenger-Carl Young, Jr. Mr. McNaughton moved that the Senate take a recess until 4 o'clock p. m. The motion prevailed, the time being 2:40 o'clock p. m. The Senate reconvened at the expiration of the recess and was called to order by the President. A quorum of the Senate was present. |