The question then recurring upon the motion of the senator, from Douglas,

It was agreed to.

The speaker of the house then proceeded to open and canvass the vote for executive officers.

The president of the joint convention thereupon declared the following named officers to be duly elected:

Mr. Clarkson offered the following resolution, which was adopted:

Resolved, That the president and secretary of the joint convention furnish a certified copy of the vote for state officers to the Governor, and also furnish a certificate of election to the state officers elect.

Mr. Carder moved,

That the joint convention adjourn sine die,

Which was agreed to.

The senate returned to the senate chamber, and was called to order by the president.

The roll was called and there were present:

Messrs. Arnold, Beck, Birkhauser, Brown of Douglas, Brown of Lancaster, Bunnell, Cheney, Clarkson, Coulter, Coutant, Cuppy, Dorsey, Gallagher, Grimm, Hayden, Howe, Jewett Kimmel, Ley, Marshall, McMeans, Norval, Otterstein, Scovill, Seaman, Stone, Sullenberger, Tefft, Van Wyck, Wigton, Mr. President--31.

Mr. Van Wyck offered the following resolution, which was adopted:

Resolved, That a committee of two be appointed on the part of the senate, to act with a like committee on the part of the house, to wait upon the governor and inform him that the two houses are now organized, and ready to receive any communication he may desire to make to the legislature.

The president appointed as such committee,
Messrs. Dorsey and Grimm.

On motion,

The senate took a recess until 2 o'clock P.M.

AFTER RECESS.

Two o'clock P.M.

The senate was called to order by the president.
The roll was called, and there were present.

Messrs. Arnold, Beck, Birkhauser, Brown of Douglas, Brown of Lancaster, Bunnell, Cheney, Clarkson, Coulter, Coutant, Cuppy, Dorsey, Gallagher, Grimm, Hayden, Jewett, Kimmel, Ley, Marshall, McMeans, Norval, Otterstein, Scovill, Seaman, Sullenberger, Tefft, Van Wyck, Wigton and Mr. President-29.

Absent,

Messrs. Howe and Stone-2.

The following message was received from the house by Mr. Slaughter its chief clerk:

Mr. President:

REPRESENTATIVE HALL,

LINCOLN, NEB., Jan. 8th, 1879.

I am directed by the house to inform your honorable body that they have appointed

Messrs. Carder and Wells as a committee on the part of the

house to act in conjunction with a like committee on the part of senate to notify the governor that the two houses are organized and ready for business.

BRAD. D. SLAUGHTER,

Chief Clerk.

Mr. Clarkson offered the following resolution, which adopted:

Resolved, That the secretary of state furnish each senator, secreretaries, and other officers of the senate with such number of daily newspapers as they may desire, not to exceed ten copies.

Mr. Dorsey from the joint committee appointed to inform the governor that the two houses were organized and ready to receive any communication he desired to make, reported that they had performed the duty required of them, and the governor had designated 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, as the hour at which he would meet the two houses in joint convention.

A committee from the house appeared and informed the senate that the house was ready to go into joint convention to receive the governor's message.

The hour having arrived for the joint convention, the senate proceeded in a body to the house of representatives to receive the governor's message.

JOINT CONVENTION.

The joint convention was called to order by the president of the

senate.

The roll of the senate was called by the secretary, and there were present:

Messrs. Arnold, Beck, Birkhauser, Brown of Douglas, Brown of

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Lancaster, Bunnell, Cheney, Clarkson, Coulter, Coutant, Cuppy, Dorsey, Gallagher, Grimm, Hayden, Howe, Jewett, Kimmel, Ley, Marshall, McMeans, Norval, Otterstein, Scovill, Seaman, Stone, Sullenberger, Tefft, Van Wyck, Wigton and Mr. President-31. The roll of the house was called by the clerk, and there were present:

Messrs. Babcock, Baker, Barnard, Batty, Bennett, Bradley, Brownlee, Bruce, Burling, Burns, Bush, Carder, Clark, Davis of Buffalo, Davis of Saunders, Day, Dempster, Dodge, Draper, Eiseley, Englehard, Fenton, Ferguson, Fisher, Frederick, French, Gassman, Gates, Gaylord, Gibson, Gilbert, Graybill, Hammitt, Hickman, Hansom, Jenkins, Johnston, Karbach, Keckley, Kennedy of Douglas, Kennedy of Pawnee, Kloepfel, Lash, Lisk, Long, Loveland, Mack, McArdle, Mead, Mitchell, Moore, Owen, Patton, Plumbeck, Polk, Polock, Price, Rohr, Ryan, Scott, Sessions, Simonton, Shelly, Slocumb, Smith, Sparks of Gage, Sparks of Merrick, Starrett, Stouffer, Stone, Thompson of Cuming, Thompson of Washington, Trowbridge, True, Vandeman, Vanderbilt, Warrington, Wells, Windham, York, Ziegler, and Mr. Speaker-82. Absent-Messrs. Curtis and Warner-2.

Mr. Howe moved

That a committee be appointed consisting of two on the part of the senate, and three on the part of the house, to wait upon the governor and inform his excellency that the joint convention was ready to receive any communication he might desire to make, Which was agreed to, and the

President appointed as such committee from the senate:
Messrs. Howe and Coutant.

The speaker appointed as such committee, on part of the house:
Messrs. Wells, Eiseley and Gibson.

The committee retired and subsequently returned and reported that their duty had been performed, and that his excellency would appear immediately.

Thereupon the governor appeared and delivered the following message to the legislature.

GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE.

Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Representatives:

You have been honored with the suffrages of the people of Nebraska, and are assembled here as their representatives, with authority to act for their common interest, and to legislate upon such subjects as will best promote the public welfare. To be chosen by the partiality of your fellow citizens to represent them in the legislative halls of the State, there to enact new laws and modify old ones for their government, is justly regarded a high and honorable privilege, a trust that no man can afford to betray.

Nebraska is nearing the end of her twelfth year of Statehood, and few of her sisters can show a nobler progress. We have great natural resources to be developed, educational interests to foster, public charities to uphold, new industries to encourage. With the necessaries of life abundant and easily attainable, with a government emanating from the people, and resting upon their confidence for support, with the largest liberty for all, consistent with security for person and property, the State teems with business activity, and is steadily advancing in all the elements that make up the highest order of civilization.

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In providing for the actual wants of State government, the ple do not expect to see parsimony confounded with economy, but they do demand that there shall be neither extravagance nor unnecessary expenditure of the public money, nor do they expect our statute books to be encumbered with laws that benefit the few at the expense of the many. The two preceding sessions were necessarily subjected to that interruption and excitement incident to