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RULE XXXII.

A motion to adjourn shall always be in order, and shall
be decided without debate, but it cannot be received after
another question is actually put, or while the Senate is
actually engaged in voting by yeas and nays, or while-
another has the floor.

RULE XXXIII.

All motions shall be reduced to writing, if desired by the-
President or any Senator, and read by the Clerk, before the
same shall be debated, and after a motion is stated by the
President, or read by the Clerk, it shall be deemed in the
possession of the Senate, but may be withdrawn at any
time before a decision or amendment, with the consent of

the Senate.

RULE XXXIV.

Any member may call for the division of the question,,
which shall then be divided, if it comprehend propositions
in substance so distinct that, one being taken away, a sub-
stantive proposition shall remain for the decision of the

Chair.

RULE XXXV.

A motion to strike out and insert shall be deemed indi-
visible; but the matter proposed to be inserted may be-
divided, if required, according to Rule XXXIV; the motion
to strike out being lost, shall preclude neither amendment
nor motion to strike out and insert; no motion or proposition
on a subject different from that under consideration shall be-
admitted under color of amendment.

RULE XXXVt.

When a question has once been put and carried in the
affirmative or negative, by yeas and nays, it shall be in order
for any member voting with the prevailing side to move for
the reconsideration thereof; but in cases where the question
has failed for want of a constitutional majority it shall be