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original proposition has been amended since the first motion.
When a motion to reconsider prevails, the question immedi-
ately recurs upon the question reconsidered. A vote on a
vetoed bill, and a vote on a motion to suspend the rules, can-
not be reconsidered.

MOTION TO RECONSIDER AND LAY ON THE TABLE.

This motion is usually made after the final vote determin-
ing any measure, though it may be made after each vote at
any stage of the measure. The motion is put in the follow-
ing form: "That the vote last taken be considered, and that
the motion to reconsider be laid on the table." This motion
having been decided in the affirmative, no reconsideration can
take place. The motion is not debatable and cannot be
amended.

MOTION TO STRIKE OUT AND INSERT.
(See Rule XXXV.)

CALL OF THE SENATE.
(See Rule XI.)

BILLS.
(See Rules XX to XXX.)

Manuscript bills must be endorsed by the Senator's name
desiring to introduce the same, and given to the Secretary to
have copied.

Bills must be presented for their first reading without
interlineations or erasures.

A bill is open to amendment upon its second reading with
debate limited to the amendment, but when the reading has
been completed and the question is: "Shall the bill be
engrossed for a third reading?" the main question is debatable.

When a bill has been returned from the House endorsed:
"Passed by yeas and nays, with proposed amendment," the
amendment shall be read and the President (calling the atten-
tion of the Senator responsible for the bill) puts the question:
"Will the Senator concur in the House amendments?" If the
Senate (upon motion of the interested Senator) concurs, the
bill in its amended form is at once put upon its passage by