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90                         WISCONSIN BLUE BOOK.

Ing shall be made before the call of the ayes and noes is commenced, and
any Senator wish-
Ing to be excused from voting may briefly and pertinently explain his reasons
therefor
before the call of the ayes and noes is commenced; but when the ayes and
noes are being
taken, the call shall not be interrupted for any purpose whatever.
   23.- When a motion is made it shall be stated by the President, or, being
in writing, it
 shall be handed to the Chair., and read aloud before debate.
 24.- Every motion shall be reduced to writing if the President or any Senator
desire it.
 25.- After a motion is stated by the President, or read by the Clerk, it
shall be deemed to
 be in possession of the senate, but may be withdrawn or altered at any time
before a de-
 cision or amendment, on leave of the Senate.
 26.- When a question is under debate, no motion shall be in order, except
to adjourn, to
 send for papers for re-consideration, to re-consider, to lay on the table,
for the previous
 question, to postpone to a day certain, to commit, to amend, to strike out
the enacting clause,
 or postpone indefinitely; and these several motions shall have precedence
in the order in
 which they herein stand arranged. But a motion to postpone to a day certain,
to strike out
 the enacting clause, or postpone indefinitely, shall not again be in order
on the same day,
 or at the same stage of the proposition.
 27.- A motion to adjourn shall always be in order, except as restricted
by the "previous
 question." A motion to adjourn, to lay on the table, to take a recess,
shal be decided with-
 out debate.
                                THE PREVIOUS QUESTION.
  28.-Any Senator may move the previous question. It being seconded by four
Senators
aside from the mover, "the previous question"1 shall be put in
this form: "Shall the main
question now be put?" It shall only be admitted when sustained by a
majority of Senators
present, and shall preclude amendments and further debate, until the main
question shall
have been disposed of. The "main question" shall be the original
proposition and pending
amendments. When the Senate shal have determined that the main question shall
not
now be put, the pending subject shall be considered as remaining under debate,
and may
be proceeded with and determined upon in the same manner as though the previous
ques-
tion had not been moved. When the Senate shall have determined that the main
question
shall now be put, its effect shall be to bring the Senate to a direct vote
- first on pending
amendments in their order, and then on the main question, without debate
or further
amendment. But after the previous question has been sustained, and prior
to the Senate
having determined that the main question shall now be put, a motion to adjourn
and a call
of the senate shall each be in order, but no further motion or call shall
be in order, except
to receive the report of the Sergeant-at-Arms, or dispense with proceedings
under the call;
and all motions and proceedings authorized by this rule shall be decided
without debate,
whether on appeal or otherwise.
                                   RECONSIDERATION.
  29.- It shall be in order for any Senator who voted in the majority on
any question, for
any Senator who voted in the negative, when the Senate was equally divided,
to move a re-
consideration of such vote, on the same or next succeeding day that the Senate
shall be in
session, and such motion shall take precedence of all other questions, except
a motion to
adjourn. A motion to reconsider having been put and determined, shall not
again be in
order.
                                 DIVISION OF QUESTION.
  30. Any Senator may call for a division of the question when the same will
admit of it.
A motion to strike out being lost shall not preclude an amendment, nor a
motion to strike
out and insert.
                        PAPERS TO BE READ BEFORE PRESENTED.
  31.- A Senator offering a resolution or an amendment to a bill, resolution
or memorial,
may read the same in his place before presenting it to the President; and
every petition,
memorial, remonstrance, resolution, bill and report of committee shall be
indorsed with its
appropriate title, and immediately under the indorsement, the name of the
Senator pre-
senting the same shall be written.
                                 CALL OF THE SENATE.
  32.-Any three Senators may make a call of the Senate and require absent
Senators to
be sent for, but a call of the Senate cannot be made after the voting has
commenced; and
a call of the Senate being ordered, the doors shall be closed and the absentees
noted, and

 
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