COMMITTEE ON REVISION AND REFORM OF LAWS. 33. It shall be the duty of the Committee on Revision and Reform of Laws to take into consideration all petitions, bills and resolutions touching the revision and reform of the existing laws of the State of California as shall or may be presented or come into question and be referred to it by the Assembly. COMMITTEE ON EXPENDITURES. 34. No member of any committee shall be permitted to incur any expense by visiting any part of the State on official or other business, without first obtaining leave of the House by. a two-third vote of the members thereof. COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE. 35. In forming a Committee of the Whole House, the Speaker as Chairman or a Chairman to be named by the Speaker, shall preside. Bills committed to a Committee of the Whole House shall, in Committee of the Whole, be read by sections. All amendments shall be noted and reported to the Assembly by the chairman. After being reported to the Assembly, the bill shall again be subject to amendment before a vote on the report is taken. COMMITTEE EXPENDITURES. 36. The rules of the Assembly shall be observed in Committees of the Whole, as far as may be applicable, except limiting the time. of speaking, and except that the ayes and noes need not be taken unless demanded. MOTION TO RISE DECIDED WITHOUT DEBATE. 37. A motion that the committee rise shall always be in order, and shall be decided without debate. REFERENCE OF BILLS. 38. When a motion is made to refer any subject, and different committees shall be proposed, the question shall be taken in the following order: The Committee of the Whole House. A Select Committee. CALLING MEMBERS TO ORDER WHEN TRANSGRESSING RULES. 39. If any member, in speaking or otherwise, transgresses the rules of the House, the Speaker shall, or any member may, call to order; in which case the member so called to order shall immediately sit down, unless permitted to explain; and if called to order by a member, such member shall immediately state the point of order. If the point of order be sustained by the Chair, the member shall not be allowed to proceed; but if it be not sustained, then he shall be permitted to go on. Every such decision from the Chair shall be subject to an appeal to the House, but no discussion of a question of order shall be allowed, unless an appeal be taken from the decision of the Chair. SPEAKER TO DECIDE WHO IS ENTITLED TO THE FLOOR. 40. When two or more members shall rise at once, the Speaker shall name the member. who is first to speak. ORDER IN SPEAKING TO QUESTIONS. 41. Every Every member, when he speaks, shall, standing in his place, address "Mr. Speaker," and when he has finished he shall sit down. No member shall speak more than twice during the consideration of any one question, of whatever nature, on the same day and at the same stage of proceedings, without leave being. granted, except the author of a bill or resolution, or mover of a question, who shall have. the right to close the debate. No member shall be allowed to speak more than thirty (30) minutes upon any question, except by leave of the House. CALLED TO ORDER FOR OFFENSIVE WORDS IN DEBATE. 42. If any member be called to order for offensive words spoken in debate, the person calling him to order shall report the word excepted to, and they shall be taken down writing at the Clerk's table; and no member shall be held to answer, or be subject to censure of the House, for language used in debate, if any member has spoken or other business has intervened after the words spoken and before exception to them shall have been. taken. PERSONAL EXPLANATION. 43. Any member may rise to explain a matter personal to himself, with leave of the Chair, but shall not discuss a question in such explanation. MOTIONS TO BE STATED BY SPEAKER, AND IF DESIRED SHALL BE REDUCED TO WRITING, OR MAY BE WITHDRAWN. 44. No motion shall be debated until the same be seconded and distinctly announced by the Speaker; and it shall be reduced to writ ing, if desired by the Speaker, or any member, and be read by the Clerk, before the same shall be debated. A motion may be withdrawn, by leave of the House, at any time. before amendment or decision. MOTION TO ADJOURN. 45. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order, except during roll call. The Clerk shall enter on the Journal the name of any member moving an adjournment, also the hour at which the motion was made and adjournment taken. When a motion is made and seconded to adjourn, it shall be in order for the Speaker, before putting the question, to permit any member to state any fact to the House relating to the condition of the business of the House which would seem to render it improper to adjourn at that time. Such statement, however, shall not be debatable, and such statement or statements shall not, in any case, occupy more than two minutes. Concurrent resolutions for adjournment sine die shall in all cases, whether originating in the House or coming from the Senate, be referred to the Committee on Ways Ways and Means. That committee shall report upon any such concurrent resolution not later than the next legislative day, and with regard to the status of the general appropriation bill and tax levy. PRECEDENCE OF MOTIONS DURING DEBATE. 46. When a question is under debate, or before the House, no motion snall be received but: To adjourn; to lay on the table; for the previous question; to postpone to a day certain; to commit or amend; to postpone indefinitely; which several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they are named, but the first three shall be decided without debate; and no motion to postpone to a day certain, to commit, or to postpone indefinitely, being decided, shall again be allowed on the same day and at the same stage of the proceedings. A motion to strike out the enacting clause of a bill shall have preference over a motion to amend, and, if carried, shall be considered equivalent to its rejection. A dilatory motion shall not be considered intervening business within the meaning of parliamentary usage. PREVIOUS QUESTION. 47. The previous question shall be in this form: "Shall the main question be now put?" And its effect, when sustained by a majority. of the members present, shall be to put an end to all debate and bring the House to a vote on the question or questions before it. QUESTIONS OF ORDER AFTER PREVIOUS QUESTION IS ORDERED. 48. All incidental questions of order arising after a motion is made for the previous question, and pending such motion or previous question, shall be decided (whether on appeal or otherwise) without debate; provided, that after the previous question shall have been ordered, ten minutes shall be allowed for explanation of the matters covered by the previous question, of which five minutes shall be given to the member moving the previous question, and five minutes to those opposed thereto. PREVIOUS QUESTION DEMANDED. 49. The previous question shall only be put when demanded by three members. QUESTION INDEFINITELY POSTPONED. 50. When a question is postponed indefinitely, the same shall not again be introduced during the session. DIVISION OF QUESTIONS. 51. Any member may call for a division of the question, which shall be divided if it comprehend propositions in substance so distinct that, one being taken away, a substantive proposition shall remain for the decision of the House. A motion to strike out being lost, shall preclude neither a motion to add to nor a motion to strike out and insert. 52. SUBSTITUTE. A substitute shall be deemed and held to be an amendment, and be treated in all respects as such. SUBJECTS DIFFERENT FROM THE ONE UNDER CONSIDERATION. 53. No motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted as an amendment. PRINTING OF BILLS. 54. Five hundred copies of all bills and as any additional copies as the House shall order, shall be printed. The Sergeant-at-Arms hall be required to certify to the reception by e House of all such printed matter, and the antity thereof. PRINTING EXTRA NUMBER OF BILLS, ETC. 55. A proposition to print an extra number any document or other matter shall lie on |