A PROTEST.
Mr. BELL submitted the following:
The special order of business on Wednesday, February 16, 1881, being Senate Bill No. 271 being the Civil Code, and the same not being concluded, but being under consideration at adjournment on said day, and after the meeting of the Senate on Thursday morning, February 17, 1881, and the reading of the journal, it was moved and seconded that the order of business be suspended and Senate Bill No. 186 be taken up and at once considered. A majority of the Senate only, and not two-thirds of the Senators present voting in favor of said motion as required by Rule 54, the President declared said motion carried and the order of business suspended over the objection of Senators made. The undersigned do hereby protest against said ruling and action, and ask that this, their protest, be spread upon the journals of the Senate.
G. V. MENZIES,
Senator from Gibson
and Posey.
R. C. BELL,
Senator from Allen
and Whitley.
GEORGE H. CHAPMAN,
Senator
from Marion.
Mr. BELL stated that this protest was filed in order to prevent the decision of the Chair being regarded as a precedent for future action.
page: 195[View Page 195]The LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR sustainted his decision by the simple statement that the motion made by the Senator from Rush (Mr. Spann) was to postpone the consideration of one subject and take up another, and was not a motion to suspend the order of business, which latter motion, under Rule 54 of the Senate, requires a two-thirds vote of the Senators present.
