When taken up, the amendment of the Senate may be either agreed to, disagreed to, or agreed to with amendment; in case of an appropriation of money being involved in the amendment, however, it must be first considered in a Committee of the Whole if demanded by a Member.

If the amendment of the Senate be agreed to, that body is notified of the fact by the Clerk, and the bill is thereupon enrolled. In case of disagreement to, or amendment of, the the Senate's amendment,

(See Amendments between the Houses and Conference Committees.)

Bills of the Senate are laid before the House by the Speaker and referred to appropriate committees pursuant to Rule XXIV, clause 1, thereafter the proceedings thereon being the same as in case of bills of the House. A report on a Senate bill must, however, be accompanied by the engrossed bill.

It is not in order to move to consider a Senate bill in lieu of a House bill.-Journal, 2, 52, p. 52. But a motion to substitute the text of a Senate bill as an amendment to the House bill is in order.

The word "bill," as used in clause 1, Rule XVII, is a generic term, and applies to and includes all legislative propositions which can properly come before the House.-Journal 1, 48, p. 1296. Therefore, after the previous question has been ordered on the passage of a joint, concurrent, or simple resolution, a motion to commit is in order in like manner as in case of a "bill."

There is no rule of the House which prohibits a committee from reporting a bill providing for several distinct works and objects, such as a bill for providing "for sundry light-houses and other aids to navigation."-Record, 1, 52, pp. 6172, 6173.

Five hundred copies of each public bill of the House, and one hundred copies of each private and river and harbor bill, are printed and distributed, as provided in Rule XLV.

APPROVAL OF.

After a bill is presented to the President, "if he approve he shall sign it; but if not, he shall return it, with his objections, to that House in which it shall have originated."-Const., 1, 7, 2, 6. When the President approves a bill, it is the practice

for him to notify the House where the bill originated of the fact and the date of his approval, which is entered on the Journal. This message is communicated by one of the President's secretaries and is entered in the Journal. It is then informally transmitted to the other House and is similarly entered on its Journal.--See Rule XLI.

If any bill shall not be returned by the President within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the same shall be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress, by their adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it shall not be a law.-Const., 1, 7, 2,6. Where a bill is allowed to become a law by reason of the failure of the President to return the same, it is usual for him to notify the House of that fact, as in the case of approval.Journals, 2, 36, pp. 421, 480; 2, 39, p. 479. And where he is prevented by an adjournment from returning a bill, it is usual for him to communicate his reasons at the next session for not approving it.-Journals, 3, 12, p. 544; 1, 30, p. 82; 3,35, p. 151. Whenever a bill, order, resolution, or vote of the Senate and House of Representatives, having been approved by the President, or not having been returned by him with his objections, becomes a law or takes effect, it shall forthwith be received by the Secretary of State from the President; and, whenever a bill, order, resolution, or vote is returned by the President with his objections, and, on being reconsidered, is agreed to be passed and is approved by two-thirds of both Houses of Congress, and thereby becomes a law or takes effect, it shall be received by the Secretary of State from the President of the Senate or Speaker of the House of Representatives, in whichsoever House it shall last have been so approved, and he shall carefully preserve the originals.-Laws, 2d Session, Forty-third Congress, p.

294.

For proceedings in case of a bill returned with the objections of the President, see Veto.

BINDING.

(See Printing, Public.)

BLANKS:

Blanks are filled by way of amendment, pursuant to the ordinary rules governing amendments, the larger sum and the

longer time, according to the later practice of the House, having no precedence.

BRIBERY.

An offer to bribe a Member is held to be a breach of the privileges of the House.-Journals 1, 4, p. 389; 1, 15, pp. 117, 151; 1, 33, 1178; 3,34, 475, 476; Manual, p. 110. Laws in relation to bribery of Members or officers; R. S. 5450, 5451, 5500, 5501; see Members, post, p. 430.

BUSINESS.

All questions relating to the priority of business shall be decided by a majority without debate.-Rule XXV.

A motion relative to the order of the business of the House can not be laid on the table, but must be voted on without debate.-Journal 2, 45, p. 1221.

The reception of a message from the Senate or from the President is not the transaction of business.-Record, 1, 49, p. 7243. It is the practice to suspend the pending business of the House to receive such messages whenever presented.

A motion for a recess being in the nature of business, was held not to be in order until after the Journal is read:;-Congressional Record, 2, 50, p. 677; but it has since been held that a motion for a recess might be entertained before the reading of the Journal.-Journal, 2, 52, p. 98.

Decision by the Chair on a question of order was held to be such intervening business as would authorize the repetition of a motion to adjourn.-Mr. McMillin, Speaker pro tempore, Journal, 2, 53, p. 330.

The refusal of the House to agree to a motion to fix the day to which the House shall adjourn constitutes business in a parliamentary sense.-Journal, 2, 48, p. 430.

A privileged proposition pending at an adjournment does not necessarily recur as the regular order of business after the approval of the Journal on the following day until called up by a member.-Journal, 1, 53, p. 114.

The Sergeant-at-Arms was directed by order of the House to telegraph absent members' requesting their attendance: Held, That the Sergeant-at-Arms was not required to report as the first business on the succeeding day his action in executing the order.—Journal, 2, 53, p. 143.

DAILY ORDER OF.

The daily order of business is prescribed in Rule XXIV, as follows:

Approval of Journal.

Reference of executive communications.

Reference of bills, etc., from the Senate.

Consideration or reference of Senate amendments to
House bills.

Morning hour for reports of committees (except first and
third Mondays).

Hour for consideration of bills (on Calendars) designated by committees.

Unfinished business pending at previous adjournment. Business in Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union.

Business on the House Calendar.

On Fridays after morning hour, Private Calendar; or public business, if private business be dispensed with.

On second and fourth Mondays, after morning hour, business presented by the Committee on the District of Columbia. On first and third Mondays of each month, motions to suspend the Rules.

(See Private Business.)

ON THE SPEAKER'S TABLE.

Business on the Speaker's table consists of messages from the President, executive and other communications to the House, Senate bills or resolutions, and House bills or resolutions, the former with Senate amendments. These are laid before the House immediately after the approval of the Journal, for reference to appropriate committees; but House bills with Senate amendments which do not require consideration in Committee of the Whole may be at once disposed of as the-House may determine. (See Rule XXIV, clause 1.)

Until the Forty-ninth Congress, there was no such rule for the reference of business on the Speaker's table, and under the former practice as many as 400 bills of the Senate have accumulated on the Speaker's table before an opportunity was had to refer or otherwise dispose of them.

UNFINISHED AT THE END OF THE FIRST SESSION.

All business before committees of the House at the end of one session shall be resumed at the commencement of the next session of the same Congress in the same manner as if no adjournment had taken place.-Rule XXVII.

Until the second session of the Fifty-second Congress the rule provided that business which originated in the House and remained undetermined at the close of the last preceding session should be in order for action after six days from the commencement of a second or subsequent session of the House. On December 8, 1892, the point having been made against the consideration of such business, the Speaker sustained the point of order, holding that by implication at least the rule prohibited its consideration during the first six days of the session.-Journal, 2, 52, p. 15. The following day, December 9, the rule (XXVII) was amended by omitting the provision as to the first six days, and making unfinished business of one session in order at any time after the commencement of the subsequent session. (See Unfinished Business.)

CALENDARS.

There shall be three calendars of business reported from committees, viz:

First. A Calendar of the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union; to which shall be referred bills raising revenue, general appropriation bills, and bills of a public character, directly or indirectly appropriating money or property;

Second. A House Calendar, to which shall be referred all bills of a public character not raising revenue nor directly or indirectly appropriating money or property; and

Third. A Calendar of the Committee of the Whole House; to which shall be referred all bills of a private character.— Rule XIII, clause 1.

These calendars contain the titles of the bills in the order in which they are reported, the number of the report, the name of the member reporting, and the committee from which the bill is reported. They are edited, prepared, and indexed by the tally clerk, and are issued in pamphlet form semiweekly, on Mondays and Fridays. There are printed in the same pam