RULES OF THE SENATE. 117

TO STRIKE OUT THE ENACTING CLAUSE.

(See Rule XXVIII.)

This motion takes precedence of the motion to amend,
and if carried, rejects the bill. The motion is debatable,
and cannot be amended, but can be reconsidered.

TO AMEND.

Al! the foregoing motions take precedence of this motion.
Debate must be limited to the subject of the amendment;
can be reconsidered. No motion or proposition on a subject
different from that under consideration shall be admitted
under color of an amendment. An amendment may be
moved to an amendment, but no farther; but there may be
submitted at the same time an amendment in the nature of
a substitute for the whole or part of the original text, and
an amendment to that amendment, but it cannot be voted
upon until the original matter is perfected.

A House amendment to a Senate bill may be amended,
but it must be returned to the House for their concurrence.

[NOTE—The foregoing motions ore arranged in the order of precedence to
which they apply to questions under consideration. When one of the fore-
going motions is received, the practice is not to receive one of lower dignity
until the former is disposed of. None of the aforegoing motions are in order
when a question is being actually put, when, the roll is being called, or when
another has the floor.]

OTHER MOTIONS.

SPECIAL ORDERS.

The practice of the Senate has been by a majority vote to
make any subject a special order, but parliamentary law
requires a two-third vote to make a special order, it being
equivalent to a suspension of the rules, changing the estab-
lished order of business, but a majority vote only is neces-
sary in the case of General Appropriation bills, or to post-
pone a special order. If a bill or other subject made a
special order is not taken up, or, if taken up, is left undis-
posed of on the day fixed, thereafter it loses its specialty.
Special orders take precedence in the order in which they