(See Rule XXVIII.)

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

TO AMEND.

All 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 dif-
ferent 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 are arranged in the order of prece-
dence to which they apply to questions under consideration. When one
of the foregoing 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 re-
quires a two-third vote to make a special order, it being equiva-
lent to a suspension of the rules, changing the established
order of business, but a majority vote only is necessary in the
case of general appropriation bills, or to postpone a special
order. If a bill, or other subject made a special order, is not
taken up, or, if taken up, is left undisposed of on the day fixed,
thereafter it loses its specialty. Special orders take prece-
dence in the order in which they are made. The usual form of