13. Every member who shall be in the Senate when a question is put, shall give his vote, unless the Senate shall, for special reasons, excuse him. 14. When a motion is made and seconded, it shall be stated by the Speaker, or, being in writing, shall be handed to the Secretary, and read aloud before debate. 15. Every motion shall be reduced to writing, if the Speaker or any member desire it. 16. After a motion is stated by the Speaker, or read by the Secretary, it shall be deemed in the possession of the Senate, but may be withdrawn at any time before decision or amendment. 17. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, to lie on the table, for the previous question, to postpone to a day certain, to commit or amend, to postpone indefinitely; which several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they are arranged; and no motion to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or to postpone indefinitely, being decided, shall be again allowed on the same day, and at the same stage of the bill or proposition. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order, and shall be decided without debate; and a motion to strike out the enacting words of a bill shall have precedence of a motion to amend, and, if carried, shall be deemed equivalent to its rejection. 19. No person shall be permitted to smoke in the Senate Chamber while in session. 19. After the Speaker has called the Senate to order on each day, there shall be no reading of newspapers or any other documents that do not immediately concern the business for which the Senate is convened. 20. The yeas and nays shall be taken when requested by any two members present. 21. Every bill which may be presented by any committee or member, shall be separately considered by the Senate, and shall not be passed into a law, until the same shall be read on three different days, unless, in case of urgency, three-fourths of the Senate shall deem it expedient to dispense with this rule. 22. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to keep a book, in which he shall seasonably record the motions, resolutions, rules, and decisions of the Senate; and to do and perform all such other acts appertaining to his office as may be required of him by the Senate or its presiding officer. 23. It shall be the duty of the Sergeant-at-Arms to attend the Senate during its sitting, to execute the commands of the Senate from time to time, together with all such process, issued by authority thereof, as shall be directed to him by the Speaker. 24. The following standing committees shall be appointed, with leave to report by bill or otherwise: a Committee on Elections; on the Judiciary; on School Lands and Education; on Internal Improvements; on Internal Navigation; on Public Roads; on Canal and Canal Lands; on Finance; on Public Accounts and Expenditures; on Military Affairs; on Salines and Saline Lands; on Petitions; on Public Buildings and Public Grounds; and on the Penitentiary. 25. Whenever a report or reports shall hereafter be made by a joint committee of the two Houses, inmediately after the reading of such report it shall be transmitted to the other House, and being there read, or its reading dispensed with, it shall be taken by the Clerk or Secretary to the House to which the report was first made. 26. All resolutions presented to the Senate shall lie one day on the table, unless otherwise ordered. 27. No resolution for any appropriation of money shall be passed until it shall shall have been referred to the committee on Retrenchment. ORDER OF BUSINESS. 1. The reading of the Journal. 2. The presentation of Petitions. 5. Presentation of Resolutions. 6. Introduction of Bills. 7. Reading Bills of the Senate the third time. 8. Reading Bills of the Senate the second time. 9. Reading Bills frrom the House of Representatives the third time. 10. Reading Bills from the House of Representatives the second time. 11. Messages from the House of Representatives. And when the Senate shall have passed from one order to another, no action shall be had upon the orders passed, except by leave of the Senate; and to give this leave, three-fourths of the Senators present must concur. On motion of Mr. Stapp, Resolved, That the Auditor of Public Accounts be requested to report to the Senate, up to what period of time he has received abstracts of the lands entered at the several land offices in this State; and whether or not, he has furnished a complete list of all lands, entered as aforesaid, to the several clerks of the county commissioner's courts, as now required by law. Mr. Pearson offered the following preamble and resolution: Inasmuch as it has been represented by individuals, in and out of this State, that the State of Illinois is unwilling to pay her just debts, that she will repudiate her contracts; therefore, Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, That we now consider, and have as a people ever considered, all contracts, made in pursuance of law by our agents, where the consideration has been received, as valid and binding upon the people of Illinois; and that common honesty and the honor of the State demand a strict fulfilment on our part, in every particular, although circumstances unforeseen, and which now operate upon almost the whole monetary world, have placed it out of the power of our State to pay the interest on her obligations at the times and places agreed upon; which were, On motion of Mr. Pearson, Ordered To lie on the table. The Speaker laid before the Senate a communication from the Secrery of State and Attorney General, made by them in compliance with a resolution of the Senate, requesting to be informed whether those officers had made a revision of the laws, agreeably to a law of the last session, and if not, the causes of their failure; which was read, and, On motion of Mr. Parrish, Said communication was referred to a select committee of five, with instructions to report a resolution for raising a joint select committee to digest the laws of Illinois, and report the same at as early a day as prac ticable. Ordered, That Messrs. Parrish, Pearson, Baker, Ralston, and Cavarly be said committee. On motion of Mr. Cavarly, Resolved, That there be printed for the use of the Senate 5000 copies of the message delivered by his Excellency Governor Ford on yesterday to both Houses of this General Assembly. Mr. Smith offered the following resolution: Resolved, That the Auditor be requested to lay before the Senate the amount of bonds which have been sold, or in any manner passed out of the custody of the Fund Commissioners, or other agents or officers of the State, on which the consideration, in whole or in part, has not been received by the State; also, the dates and numbers of all such bonds, and to whom sold; which resolution was, On motion of Mr. Smith, Laid on the table. The Speaker laid before the Senate the biennial report of the Treasurer; which was, On motion, Laid on the table, and 500 copies thereof ordered to be printed. Ordered, That the communication received on yesterday from the Governor, Auditor and Treasurer, be taken up. On motion of Mr. Leviston, Ordered, That 2000 copies of the communication, except the accompanying documents, be printed for the use of the Senate. The yeas and nays being ordered on this question, Those who voted in the affirmative, are, Messrs. Buford, Catlin, Cavarly, Crain, Davis, English, Evans, Feaman, Gillham, Harris, James, Leviston, Markley, Matteson, Parrish, Pearson, Ralston, Ryan, Slocumb, Vandeventer, Warren, Willbanks, and Wynne -23. Those who voted in the negative, are, Messrs. Baker, Barnett, Čullom, Davidson, Fithian, Harrison of Jo Daviess, Harrison of Sangamon, Henry, Hoard, Johnson, Killpatrick, McMurtry, Minard, Nunnally, Parker, Ruggles, Smith, Stapp, Thompson, Waters, and Worthington-21. On motion of Mr. Parrish, Ordered, That the following constitute an additional rule, and be printed as such: "All resolutions presented to the Senate shall lie one day on the table, unless otherwise ordered." Mr. Cavarly offered the following resolution: Resolved, That a standing committee on printing be appointed, to direct the number of copies of any message, bill, or document, which may be ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate.' On motion of Mr. Ryan, Ordered, That the vote taken upon printing 2000 copies of a communication from the Governor, Auditor, and Treasurer, be re-considered. Mr. Pearson moved a call of the Senate; which was proceeded in for some time; when, On motion of Mr. Stapp, It was dispensed with. The question was then again taken upon ordering the printing of 2000 copies of the communication; and decided in the negative, as follows: Those who voted in the affirmative, are, Messrs. Buford, Catlin, Cavarly, Crain, English, Evans, Feaman, Harris, James, Leviston, Markley, Matteson, Parrish, Pearson, Ralston, Slocumb, Vandeventer, Warren, Willbanks, and Wynne-20. Those who voted in the negative, are, Messrs. Baker, Barnett, Cullom, Davidson, Davis, Dougherty, Fithian, Gillham, Harrison of Jo Daviess, Harrison of Sangamon, Henry, Hoard, Johnson, Killpatrick, McMurtry, Minard, Nunnally, Parker, Ruggles, Ryan, Smith, Stapp, Thompson, Waters, and Worthington-25. On motion of Mr. Baker, Ordered, That said communication be laid on the table. A message from the House of Representatives, containing a joint resolution, having for its object the raising a of joint select committee to draft and report to the House of Representatives a memorial praying Congress to grant an additional quantity of land to aid in the construction of the Illinois and Michigan canal, was taken up; and, On the question-"Will the Senate concur with the House of Represen tatives in the passage of said resolution?" Mr. Hoard moved to amend the resolution, by adding after the word "subject," the following, to wit: "In which memorial shall also be brought to view the propriety and utility of embracing within the grant of lands prayed for, the mineral or lead region of Illinois, and all the lands which have been reserved from sale in consequence of being known or supposed to have mines or minerals upon them, for the use of the State." Mr. Dougherty moved to amend the amendment by adding the following, to wit: "Also, the alternate sections of public lands lying contiguous to the line of the Central railroad, as now located from the southern termination of the Illinois and Michigan canal to the city of Cairo, at the mouth of the Ohio river, to be applied to the construction of the said railroad." Mr. Ralston moved that the resolution and amendments be laid on the table; which motion was decided in the affirmative by yeas and nays. Those who voted in the affirmative, are, Messrs. Baker, Barnett, Buford, Dougherty, Feaman, Gillham, Harris, Henry, Hoard, Killpatrick, Leviston, Matteson, Nunnally, Parrish, Ralston, Ruggles, Slocumb, Stapp, Thompson, Vandeventer, Warren, Willbanks, Worthington, and Wynne-24. Those who voted in the negative, are, 'Messrs. Catlin, Cavarly, Crain, Cullom, Davis, English, Evans, Fithian, Harrison of Jo Daviess, Harrison of Sangamon, James, Johnson, Markley, The Senate adjourned to 2 o'clock, P. M. TWO O'CLOCK, P. M. Senate met pursuant to adjournment. Mr. Speaker, in pursuance of a rule of the Senate, announced the following standing committees, to wit: On Elections.-Messrs. Parrish, Feaman, Slocumb, Cullom, and Catlin. On School Lands and Education.-Messrs. Davidson, Davis, Barnett, ம. Crain, Parker, and Worthington. d. On Internal Improvements.-Messrs. Leviston, Dougherty, Parrish, Hoard, and Cullom. On the Judiciary.-Messrs. Ralston, Pearson, Cavarly, Baker, Dougherty, Davis, and Thompson. On Internal Navigation. Messrs. Harrison of Jo Daviess, Houston, Evans, Ryan, Worthington, and Waters. On Public Roads.-Messrs. Parker, Feaman, Willbanks, Vandeventer, Waters, and Ruggles. On Canal and Canal Lands.-Messrs. Ryan, Thompson, Warren, Henry, and Leviston. On Finance.-Messrs. Matteson, James, Ralston, Cavarly, Stapp, and Minard. On Public Accounts and Expenditures.-Messrs. Cavarly, Pearson, Markley, Hoard, Buford, Gillham, and Henry. On Military Affairs.-Messrs. Warren, Harris, Feaman, Baker, McMurtry, Davis, and Harrison of Jo Daviess. On Salines and Saline Lands.-Messrs. Slocumb, Houston, Parker, Wynne, Johnson, and Fithian. On Petitions.-Messrs. Harris, Evans, Willbanks, Waters, and Smith. On Public Buildings.-Messrs. Nunnally, James, Minard, Stapp, Buford, and Killpatrick. On the Penitentiary.-Messrs. English, Catlin, Hoard, McMurtry, Smith, Giliham, Fithian, and Harrison of Sangamon. On Counties.-Messrs. Barnett, Markley, Vandeventer, Killpatrick, Wynne, IIarrison of Sangamon, and Walker. On Incorporations.-Messrs. Dougherty, Vandeventer, Ralston, Baker, and Nunnally. On Enrolled Bills.-Messrs. Crain and Nunnally. On Retrenchment.-Messrs. Baker, Ralston, Nunnally, Harris, and Henry. On motion of Mr. Baker, Ordered, That there be a standing committee of the Senate, to be called the Retrenchment committee; and that the following constitute an additional rule of the Senate. "No bill or resolution for any appropriation of money shall be passed, until it shall have been referred to the committee on Retrenchment." |