WISCONSIN BLUE BOOK.


                               SECTION XXXVIII.

                                   EQUIVALENT.
   If, on a question for rejection, a bill be retained, It passes of course
to Its next
 reading. Iakev., 141; Scob., 42. And a question for a second reading deter-
 mined negatively, is a rejection without further qu'estion. 4 Grey, 145.
And see
 Elsyn ge's Memor., 42, in wuat cases questions are to be taken for rejection.
   Where questions are perfectly equivalent, so that the negative of the
one
 amounts to the affirmative of the other, and leaves no other alternative,
the de-
 cision of the one concludes necessarily the other. 4 Grey, 157. Thus the
ncga-
 tive of striking out amounts to the affirmative of agreeing; and therefore
to put
 a question on agreeing after that on striking out, would fie to put the
same ques-
 tion in effect twice over. Not so in questions of amendments between the
two
 Houses. A motion to recede being negatived, does not amount to a positive
vote
 to insist, b',cause there is another alternative, to wit: to adhere
   A bill originating in one ILouse is passed by the other with an amendment.
A
 motion in the originating House to agree to the amendment is negatived.
Does
 there result from this a vote of disagreement, or must the question on disagree-
 ment be expressly voted? The questions respecting amendments from another
 House are--lst, to agree ; 2d, to disagree; 3d, to recede; 4th, insist;
5th, adhere.
                          Either of these concludes the other necessarily,
for the
1st. To agree.         positive of either is exactly the equivalent of the
negative
2d. To disagree.       of the other, and no other alternative remains. On
either
                       motion amendments to the amendments may be proposed;
                       e. g., if it be moved to disagree, those who are for
the
                       amendment have a right to propose amendments, and
to
                       make it as perfect as they can, before the question
of dis-
                       agreeing is put.
 3d. To recede.       ( You may then either insist or adhere.
 4th. To insist.       You may then either recede or adhere.
 5th. To adhere.       You may then either recede or insist.
                       Consequently the negative of these is not equivalent
to a
                       positive vote the other way. It does not raise so
neces-
                       sary an implication as may authorize the Secretary
by in-
                       ference to enter another vote; for two alternatives
still
                       remain, either of which may be adopted by the House.


                               SECTION XXXIX.

                                  THE QUESTION.

   The question is to be put first on the affirmative and then on the negative
side.
   After the Speaker has put the affirmative part of the question, any member
who has not spoken before to the question may rise and speak before the nega-
tive be put; because it is no full question till the negative part be put.
Scob.,
23; 2 Ilats., 73.
   But in small matters, and which are, of course, such as receiving petitions,
re-
ports, withdrawing motions, reading papers, etc., the Speaker most commonly
supposes the consent of the House where no objection is expressed, and does
not
give them the trouble of putting the question formally.   Scob., 22; 2 hrats.,
87;
5 Grey, 129; 9 Grey, 301.

                                 SECTION XL.

                             BILLS, THIRD READING.

  To prevent bills from being passed by surprise, the House, by a standing
order,
directs that they shall not be put on their passage before a fixed hour,
naming
one at which the House is commonly full. Ifakew., 153.
   [The usage of the Senate is, not to put bills on their passage till noon.]
   A bill reported and passed to the third reading cannot on that day be
read the