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Page 23 - When a bill or resolution, which shall have passed in one house, is rejected in the other, notice thereof shall be given to the house in which the same shall have passed.
Page 14 - Every bill and joint resolution shall receive three readings previous to its passage, which readings shall be on three different days, unless the Senate unanimously direct otherwise; and the Presiding Officer shall give notice at each reading whether it be the first, second, or third: Provided, That the first or second reading of each bill be by title only, unless the Senate in any case shall otherwise order.
Page 40 - Resolved, That the Committee on Military Affairs be instructed to inquire into the expediency of providing by law for Snmuel G. Hopkins, late a captain in the Army of the United States, to settle his accounts with the Government upon the principles of equity.
Page 34 - In every case of an amendment of a bill agreed to in one House, and dissented to in the other, if either House shall request a conference, and appoint a committee...
Page 15 - Messages shall be sent to the House of Representatives by the Secretary, who shall previously...
Page 10 - Resolved, That a Committee of three be appointed by the President to report a plan for organizing a system of theatre meetings throughout the country, their report to b« presented to-morrow afternoon.
Page 11 - A majority of the whole number of votes given shall be necessary to the choice of a chairman of a standing committee, but a plurality of votes shall elect the other members thereof. All other committees shall be appointed by ballot, unless otherwise ordered, and a plurality of votes shall appoint.
Page 23 - Each House shall transmit to the other all papers on which any bill or resolution shall be founded.
Page 45 - The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration of the bill (HR 18542) making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1918, and for other purposes.
Page 14 - If the question in debate contains several propositions, any Senator may have the same divided, except a motion to strike out and insert, which shall not be divided ; but the rejection of a motion to strike out and insert...

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