24. Judiciary. 25. Judicial Apportionment. 26. Judicial Department and Practice. 27. Labor. 28. License and Miscellany. 29. Livestock and Dairying. 30. Manufactures. 31. Military and Naval Affairs. 32. Mines and Mining. 33. Municipalities. 34. Municipal Courts. 35. Parks and Boulevards. 36. Primary Elections. 37. Public Buildings and Grounds. 38. Public Utilities. 39. Railroads. 40. Revenue. 41. Roads, Highways and Bridges. 42. Rules. 43. Sanitary District Affairs. 44. Senatorial Apportionment. 45. State Normal Schools. 46. To Visit Penal and Reformatory Institutions. 47. To Visit State Charitable Institutions. 48. To Visit State Educational Institutions. 49. University of Illinois. 50. Warehouses and Cold Storage. 51. Waterways. 39. All resolutions presented to the Senate shall lie one day on the table. This rule may, on motion supported by a majority of the Senators elected, be suspended, except as to a resolution to recall a bill or resolution from a committee to which it has been referred. 40. If the question in debate contain several points, any Senator may have the same divided; but on motion to strike out and insert, it shall not be in order to move for a division of the question; but the rejection of a motion to strike out and insert one proposition shall not prevent a motion to strike out and insert a different proposition. 41. When a question has been once made and carried in the affirmative or negative, it shall be in order for a member of the majority to move for the reconsideration thereof, or give notice that he will make such motion within the time prescribed by the rule; for which time he shall have control of the motion, but no motion for the reconsideration of any vote shall be in order after a bill, resolution, message, report, amendment or motion upon which the vote was taken shall have gone out of the possession of the Senate; nor shall any motion for reconsideration be in order unless within the next day of actual session of the Senate: Provided, that should the Senator giving notice of a motion to reconsider not make such motion within the time prescribed by the rule any other Senator voting with the majority may make such motion within the next succeeding legislative day, but no notice of a "motion to reconsider" shall be received within three legislative days of the time fixed for the final adjournment of the General Assembly. Such motion shall take precedence of all other questions, except a motion to adjourn. 42. All bills when introduced shall be read by title only and referred by the Presiding Officer to the proper committee, unless otherwise ordered by the Senate. All bills favorably reported from committee, or so ordered by the Senate, shall be read a first time before being amended, and may be amended in every particular on second reading. 43. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Enrolled and Engrossed Bills to examine the same, correct any mistakes therein, and report the bills to the Senate. The Committee on Enrolled and Engrossed Bills and the Executive Committee may report at any time. 44. A motion to lay any particular proposition on the table shall apply to that proposition only. 45. When a committee reports a substitute, for an original bill, with the recommendation that the substitute pass, it shall be in order to read the substitute a first time at once. 46. No amendment shall be in order at the third reading of a bill, resolution or motion requiring three readings, but it shall be at all times in order before the final passage of such bill, resolution, or motion, to move its commitment. BILLS. 47. When a bill is introduced in the Senate or received from the House it shall be read at once by title, ordered printed, and referred to the proper committee, which shall be determined by the President of the Senate, unless otherwise ordered by a majority of the Senators present. No Senate bill shall be introduced after the expiration of ninety days after the convening of the General Assembly, except upon motion supported by a majority of the Senators present. 48. Amendments may be made to a bill only upon second reading, and when adopted, shall be printed before the final passage of the bill. 49. The Secretary of the Senate shall, as soon as any bill is printed, deliver to the Senate Messenger sufficient copies to furnish each Senator, and the President of the Senate, with a copy thereof, and the Senate Messenger shall at once distribute said bills upon the desks of the Senators, and the President of the Senate. The Secretary of the Senate shall also furnish the chairman of the committee to which said bill is referred, a sufficient number of copies to furnish each member thereof two copies of each bill, 50. When motions are made for reference of the same object to a select committee and to a standing committee, the question of reference to a standing committee shall be first put. 51. Upon the call of the Senate, the names of Senators shall be called by the Secretary, and the absentees noted, after which the names of such absentees shall again be called; the doors shall then be closed, and those for whom no excuse, or insufficient excuse, is made may, by the order of those present, be taken into custody as they appear, or may be sent for, and taken into custody wherever found by the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate. 52. No amendment by way of rider shall be received to any bill on its third reading. 53. When an emergency is expressed in the preamble or body of an act as a reason why such act should take effect prior to the first day of July next after its passage, and when such act contains a clause or proviso fixing such time prior to the first day of July, the question shall be, "Shall the bill pass?" and if decided affirmatively by a vote of two-thirds of the Senators elected to the Senate, then the bill shall be deemed passed; but if, upon such vote, a majority of less than two-thirds of all said Senators vote affirmatively 'on said question, then the vote on said bill shall be deemed reconsidered, and the bill subject to amendment by striking out such part thereof as expresses an emergency and the time of taking effect, and then said bill shall be under consideration, upon its third reading, with the emergency clause and time of taking effect stricken out: Provided, however, that such amendment striking out the emergency clause shall be printed before said bill is considered upon third reading. 54. The rules of parliamentary practice comprised in Cushing's Parliamentary Law shall govern the Senate in all cases to which they are applicable and in which they are not inconsistent with the standing rules and orders of the Senate. 55. A motion to commit, until it is decided, shall preclude all amendments and debate on the main question; and a motion to postpone indefinitely, or to a day certain, until it is decided, shall preclude all amendments on the main question. 56. Upon a motion to reconsider the vote on the final passage of any bill, a majority of all the Senators elected shall be required to reconsider the same. 57. If a bill shall fail to pass on account of not having received the constitutional majority, any Senator having voted in the negative shall have a right to move a reconsideration. 58. No motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under color of amendment. 59. No rule of the Senate shall be altered, suspended or rescinded without the vote on roll call of two-thirds of the Senators present, but any alteration, suspension, or recision having the approval of the Committee on Rules may be adopted on roll call by a majority of the Senators elected. 60. No person, except members of the House of Representatives and their officers, heads of executive departments of this State, chaplains, judges of the United States courts, Supreme and circuit judges of this State, former Governors and Lieutenant Governors, ex-members of the Senate of this State not acting as attorney for any person, persons, firm or corporation, interested in pending legislation, and reporters of the press, shall be admitted to the floors of the Senate, unless by leave of the President of the Senate. ORDER OF BUSINESS. 61. The daily order of business shall be as follows: 1. The reading of the Journal. 2. Presentation of petitions. 3. Reports from standing committees. 4. Reports from select committees. 5. Presentation of resolutions. 6. Introduction of bills. After the daily order of business shall have passed, the following general order of business shall be observed: 1. Messages from the House of Representatives. 2. Reading bills of the Senate the third time. 3. Reading bills of the Senate the second time. 4. Reading bills from the House of Representatives the third time. 5. Reading of bills from the House of Representatives the second time. 6. Reading bills from the House of Representatives the first time. 7. Consideration of resolutions. The items of unfinished business in which the Senate was engaged at the last preceding adjournment shall have the preference in the general order of business. The Senate may at any time on motion supported by a majority vote of the Senators present proceed out of order to any order of business or return to an order already passed. When the Senate shall have reached any particular order of business any item thereunder may be taken up for consideration out of its regular order upon motion supported by a majority vote of the Senators present. The Executive Committee may report a special order for the day, which special order shall take the place of the regular order, but the special order so reported may be suspended, amended or modified on roll call by a majority of the Senators present. PREVIOUS QUESTIONS. 62. The previous questions shall be stated in this form: "Shall the main question be now put?" and, until it is decided, shall preclude all amendments or debate. When it is decided that the main question shall now be put the main question shall be considered as still remaining under debate. 63. The effect of the main question being ordered shall be put to an end to all debate and bring the Senate to a direct vote; first, upon all amendments reported or pending, in the inverse order in which they are offered. After the motion for the previous question has prevailed, it shall not be in order to move for a call of the Senate unless it shall appear by the yeas and nays as taken on the main question that no quorum is present, or to move to adjourn, prior to a decision on the main question. EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS AND NOMINATIONS. 64. Messages from the Governor and communications from State officers may be received at any time, except when the President is putting a question or the ayes and nays are being called, and upon motion, may be considered at any time, except that messages from the Governor making nominations of officers shall lay over one day. The consideration of executive business shall take place with closed doors, unless otherwise ordered by a majority of Senators present. 65. Nominations may be referred to a standing or select committee. On considering nominations, the President shall put the following question: "Does the Senate advise and consent to the nomination just made?" While any nomination remains with the Senate it shall be in order to reconsider any vote taken thereon. 66. All Senate members of conference and select committees and of commissions, Senate and Joint, shall be selected by the Senate as follows: The same shall be selected and appointed by the Executive Committee and named by the President of the Senate, who shall be ex officio a member of the Executive Committee, and the action of said committee shall stand as the action of the Senate unless such action shall be amended or modified on roll call by a majority of the Senators present. HOUR OF MEETING. 67. Unless otherwise ordered, the regular hour of meeting of the Senate shall be 10:00 o'clock a. m. daily (Sunday excepted). EMPLOYEES. 68. All assistant secretaries and other employees of the Secretary of the Senate's office shall report to him and be under his supervision and control. The Enrolling and Engrossing Clerk and his assistants shall be under the control and supervision of the Chairman of the Committee on Enrolled and Engrossed Bills. All other officers and employees of the Senate shall report daily to the Sergeant-at-Arms, who shall report to the President of the Senate any and all of said employees who fail to properly and regularly perform their duty. The President of the Senate shall report such names to the Senate and they shall be stricken from the pay roll, unless the Senate shall otherwise order. It shall be the duty of the Law Secretary to draw and formulate any bill or resolution that shall be required of him by any member of the Senate. One of the stenographers appointed by the Senate shall be assigned to his office. At 2:30 p. m., on motion of Mr. Piercy, the Senate adjourned until tomorrow, Thursday morning. at 10 o'clock. THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1915, 10:00 O'CLOCK A. M. Senate met pursuant to adjournment, Hon. Barratt O'Hara, Lieutenant-Governor and President of the Senate, presiding. Prayer by the Chaplain. Objections being made by Mr. Cornwell, the approval of the Journal went over until the next legislative day. The President presented to the Senate a communication from him to the Attorney General pertaining to and in compliance with his previous statement relative to the controversy in the Eleventh and Twentythird Districts as follows: January 6, 1915. MY DEAR GENERAL: I am instructed, by unanimous consent of the State Senate, to request from you an opinion as to the law by which the members of the Senate are to be guided in the following situation: At noon today, in compliance with the laws of Illinois, I, as LieutenantGovernor, acting as President of the Senate, called the Senate to order. Twenty-four hold-over Senators, already sworn and qualified, presented themselves and were placed upon the roll-call. Twenty-five newly elected Senators then presented themselves, and, there being no objection on the part of any one, were given their seats and were duly sworn in as Senators of this Commonwealth. A Mr. Strauss and a Mr. Byrne purporting themselves to be duly elected Senators, presented themselves with certificates of election signed by the Auditor of Public Accounts and the State Treasurer, for the State Canvassing Board. On these certificates they claimed their right as Senators, their right to be placed upon the roll-call and duly be sworn. Objection being raised by Senator Dailey, who presented the counterclaim of Mr. Austin and Mr. Baldwin, who asserted their right to seats in question by virtue of certificates signed by local county officials. For your complete guidance in arriving at an opinion in this matter, I am enclosing herewith the credentials presented by the four gentlemen concerned. The Senate desires to know First-By whom and in what manner is the roll-call of the Senate to be determined? Second-If the credentials of Messrs. Strauss and Byrne are sufficient and such as to entitle them to a place upon the roll-call, without such certificates bearing the signature of the Governor of the State? Or if Messrs. Strauss and Byrne are not entitled to the seats in question, are Messrs. Baldwin and Austin entitled to those seats by virtue of the credentials presented by them? Third-In the event that neither set of claimants is clearly entitled to these seats, can a contest properly be filed by either set of claimants while the seats still remain vacant? It is needless to say that the Senate is desirous of proceeding in this matter in conformity with the law and a high sense of moral propriety; and that the rights of no one may be left in question for a longer period than is absolutely necessary, in the interest of justice I am respectfully requesting that you render an opinion on the questions involved in time for presentation to the Senate when it next convenes at ten o'clock tomorrow morning. Honorable P. J. Lucey, Attorney General, Yours truly, BARRATT O'HARA. Springfield. |