Mr. Knapp moved to lay the motion on the table,

Which was agreed to.

Mr. Knapp offered the following resolution :

Resolved, That the president of the senate or lieutenant-governor be authorized to appoint a sufficient number of pages for the accommodation of the senate.

Mr. Ambrose moved as an amendment,

That the temporary president be authorized to appoint two pages for the senate.

Which was agreed to.

The resolution, as amended, was adopted.

Mr. Pepoon moved that a committee of two be apointed to wait upon the secretary of state to invite him to administer the oath of office to the officers elect,

Which was agreed to.

The president appointed Messrs. Pepoon and Ambrose as such committee, who retired and subsequently appeared escorting the secretary of state, who thereupon administered the following oath of office to the officers elect, who signed the same :

"We, and each of us, do solemnly swear that we will support the constitution of the United States, the constitution of the State of Nebraska, and faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of the office to which we have respectively been elected according to the best of our ability."

"So help us God."

DANIEL H. WHEELER,
EDWARD J. BALDWIN,

"WALT." M. SEELY,

THOMAS HARLAN,

MARSHAL J. HOUCK,

JAMES W. GRIFFIN,

C. E. HINE,

ELLA MARLAY,

MOLLIE E. BAIRD.

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

Resolved, That the president appoint a committee of three to wait upon the house of representives and inform that body that the senate is now organized and ready to proceed to business.

The temporary president appointed Messrs. Crawford, Walton and Ferguson as such committee.

Mr. Brown moved that a committee on rules be appointed.
Which was agreed to.

The temporary president appointed Messrs. Brown, Chapman, Hayes, Wilcox and Howe.

Mr. Kennard moved

That the senate resolve itself into a committee of the whole house,

Which was agreed to.

Thereupon, the senate resolved itself into a committee of the whole house, with Mr. Kennard in the chair.

After some time spent therein, the committee of the whole house arose, and submitted no report.

Mr. Crawford, from the committee appointed to wait upon the house of representatives and inform that body that the senate was duly organized and ready to proceed to business,

Reported that that duty was performed.

The temporary president appointed as pages for the accommodation of the senate, Willie H. Shuckman and Henry Viggers. Mr. Ambrose moved,

That the lieutenant-governor, when he takes his seat, be authorized to appoint one page for his own accommodation, Which was agreed to.

On motion,

The senate took a recess until 3 o'clock, P. M.

AFTER RECESS.

Three o'clock P. M.

The senate was called to order by the temporary president.

Roll called.

Members all present.

Mr. Thummel 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 his excellency, 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, and that the secretary communicate the same to the house.

The temporary president appointed as such committee Messrs. Thummel and Crawford.

Mr. Howe offered the following resolution, which was adopted: Resolved, That the secretary of state be requested to furnish the members of this body with a copy of the Revised Statutes and session laws of 1875; also a copy of the new constitution.

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

Resolved, That the president of the senate appoint a committee of two, to act with a like committee on the part of the house, to report joint rules to govern the two houses.

The president appointed as such committee Messrs. Pepoon and Chapman.

The committee on rules submitted the following report, which was read in full by the secretary:

Mr. President:

Your committee on rules submit and recommend the adoption of the following:

STANDING RULES OF THE SENATE.

1. The president having taken the chair, and a quorum being present, the journal of the preceding day shall be read, to the end that any mistake may be corrected that shall be made in the entries. A quorum shall consist of a majority of the members of the senate.

2. No member shall speak to another, or otherwise interrupt the business of the senate, or read any newspapers while the journal or public papers are being read, or when any member is speaking in any debate.

3. Every member, when he speaks, shall address the president, standing in his place, and when he has finished, shall sit down.

4. No member shall speak more than twice in any one debate, on the same day, without leave of the senate.

5. When two members rise at the same time, the president shall name the person to speak; but in all cases, the member who shall first rise and ́address the president, shall be entitled to the floor.

6. When a member shall be called to order by the president or a senator, he shall sit down; and every question of order shall be decided by the president, without debate, subject to an appeal to the senate, and the president may call for the sense of the senate on any question of order.

7. If a member be called to order for words spoken, the exceptionable words shall be immediately taken down in writing, that the president may be better enabled to judge of the matter.

8. No member shall absent himself from the service of the senate without leave of the senate being first obtained. And in case a less number than a quorum of the senate shall convene, they are hereby authorized to send the sergeant-at-arms, or any other person or persons by them authorized, for any or all absent members, as a majority of such members present shall agree, at the

expense of such absent members respectively, unless such excuse for non-attendance shall be made as the senate, when a quorum is convened, shall judge sufficient; and in that case the expense shall be paid out of the contingent fund. And this rule shall apply as well to the first convention of the senate at the legal time of meeting, as to each day of the session after the hour has arrived to which the senate stood adjourned.

9. No motion shall be debated till the same shall be seconded, and the question stated by the chair.

10. When a motion shall be made and seconded, it shall be reduced to writing, if desired by the president or any member, delivered at the table and read before the same shall be debated.

11. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received but to adjourn, for the previous question, to lay on the table, to postpone indefinitely, to postpone to a certain day, to commit or amend, which several motions shall have precedence in the order they stand arranged. Any motion may be withdrawn by the mover at any time before a decision, amendments, or ordering of the yeas and nays, except a motion to reconsider, which shall not be withdrawn without leave of the senate. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order; that and the motion to lay on the table shall be decided without debate.

12. If a question in debate contain several points, any member may have the same divided; but on a motion to strike out and insert, it shall not be in order to move for a division of the question; but the rejection of a motion to strike out and insert one proposition shall not prevent a motion to strike out and insert a different proposition; nor prevent a subsequent motion simply to strike out; nor shall the rejection of a motion simply to strike out prevent a subsequent motion to strike out and insert.

13. In filling up blanks, the largest sum and the longest time shall be first put.

14. When the reading of a paper is called for, and the same is objected to by any member, it shall be determined by a vote of the senate, and without debate.