at the same election shall be approved the one receiving the highest number of affirmative votes shall thereby become law as to all conflicting provisions. The Constitutional limitations as to scope and subject matter of statutes enacted by the legislature shall apply to those enacted by the initiative.

SEC. 1B. [Referendum.] The second power reserved is the referendum. It may be ordered by a petition of ten per cent of the legal voters of the state, distributed as required for initiative petitions. Referendum petitions against measures passed by the legislature shall be filed with the Secretary of State within ninety days after the legislature enacting the same adjourns sine die or for a period longer than ninety days; and elections thereon shall be had at the first regular state election held not less than thirty days after such filing.

SEC. 1C. [Referendum-Suspension of measures.] The referendum may be ordered upon any act except acts making appropriations for the expenses of the state government, and state institutions existing at the time such act is passed. When the referendum is ordered upon an act or any part thereof it shall suspend its operation until the same is approved by the voters; provided, that emergency acts, or acts for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety shall continue in effect until rejected by the voters or repealed by the legislature. Filing of a referendum petition against one or more items, sections, or parts of an act shall not delay the remainder of the measure from becoming operative.

SEC. 1D. [Effect of act; ballots necessary; veto; returns of election.] Nothing in this section shall be construed to deprive any member of the legislature of the right to introduce any measure. The whole number of votes cast for governor at the regular election last preceding the filing of any initiative or referendum petition shall be the basis on which the number of legal voters required to sign such petition shall be computed. The veto power of the governor shall not extend to measures initiated by or referred to the people. All such measures shall become the law or a part of the constitution when approved by a majority of the votes

cast thereon, provided, the votes cast in favor of said initiative measure or part of said Constitution shall constitute thirty-five per cent (35%) of the total vote cast at said election, and not otherwise, and shall take effect upon proclamation by the governor, which shall be made within ten days of the completion of the official canvass. The vote upon

initiative and referendum measures shall be returned and canvassed in the same manner as is prescribed in the case of presidential electors. The method of submitting and adopting amendments to the constitution provided by this section shall be supplementary to the method prescribed in the article of this constitution, entitled 'Amendments' and the latter shall in no case be construed to conflict herewith. This amendment shall be self-executing, but legislation may be enacted especially to facilitate its operation. In submitting petitions and orders for the initiative and the referendum, the Secretary of State and all other officers shall be guided by this amendment and the general laws until additional legisation shall be especially provided therefor; all propositions submitted in pursuance hereof shall be submitted in a nonpartizan manner and without any indication or suggestion on the ballot that they have been approved or endorsed by any political party or organization, and provided further that only the title of measures shall be printed on the ballot and, when two or more measures have the same title they shall be numbered consecutively in the order of filing with the Secretary of State and including the name of the first petitioner.

SEC. 2. [Census; legislative apportionment.] The Legislature shall provide by law for an enumeration of the inhabitants of the state in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five and every ten years thereafter, and at its first regular session after each enumeration, and also after each enumeration made by the authority of the United States, but at no other time, the Legislature shall apportion the senators and representatives according to the number of inhabitants, excluding Indians not taxed, and Soldiers and Officers of the United States army and navy.

SEC. 3. [Number of members; sessions.] The House of Representatives shall consist of eighty four members

and the senate shall consist of thirty members, until the year eighteen hundred and eighty after which time the number of members of each House shall be regulated by law; But the number of Representatives shall never exceed one hundred, nor that of Senators, thirty-three. The sessions of the legislature shall be biennial, except as otherwise provided in this constitution.

SEC. 4. [Legislature; term of office, compensation, length of session.] At the first election of members of the legislature held after the adoption of this amendment members of the senate and House of Representatives, shall be elected for the term of two years. Both senators and representatives shall each receive pay at the rate of six hundred dollars for each regular session of the Legislature, during their term, and ten cents for every mile they shall travel in going to and returning from the place of meeting of the legislature, on the most usual route. That neither members of the legislature nor employes shall receive any pay or perquisites other than their salary and mileage. Each session, except special session, shall not be less than sixty days. After the expiration of twenty days of the session, no bills nor joint resolutions of the nature of bills shall be introduced, unless the governor shall by special message call the attention of the legislature to the necessity of passing a law on the subjectmatter embraced in the message, and the introduction of bills shall be restricted thereto. Provided, that the general appropriation bills may be introduced up to and including the fortieth day.

SEC. 5. [Who not eligible.] No person shall be eligible to the office of Senator, or member of the House of Representatives, who shall not be an elector and have reIsided within the district from which he is elected for the term of one year next before his election, unless he shall have been absent on the public business of the United States or of this state. And no person elected as aforesaid shall hold his office after he shall have removed from such district.

SEC. 6. [Same.] No person holding office under the authority of the United States, or any lucrative office under the authority of this state, shall be eligible to, or have a seat

in the Legislature, but this provision shall not extend to precinct or township officers, Justices of the Peace, Notaries Public, or officers of the militia, nor shall any person interested in a contract with, or an unadjusted claim, against the State hold a seat in the Legislature.

SEC. 7. [Sessions; commencement, quorum, rules, officers, opening, punishments.] The session of the Legislature shall commence at 12 o'clock, (noon) on the first Tuesday in January in the year next ensuing the election of members thereof, and at no other time, unless as provided by this constitution. A majority of the members elected to each House shall constitute a quorum; each House shall determine the rules of its proceedings and be the judge of the election, returns, and qualifications of its members, shall choose its own officers, and the senate shall choose a temporary president, to preside when the Lieutenant Governor shall not attend as president, or shall act as Governor. The Secretary of State shall call the House of Representatives to order at the opening of each new Legislature, and preside over it until a temporary presiding officer thereof shall have been chosen, and shall have taken his seat. No member shall be expelled by either House, except by a vote of twothirds of all the members elected to that House, and no member shall be twice expelled for the same offense. Each House may punish by imprisonment any person not a member thereof who shall be guilty of disrespect to the House by disorderly or contemptuous behavior in its presence, but no such imprisonment shall extend beyond twenty-four hours at one time, unless the person shall persist in such disorderly or contemptuous behavior.

SEC. 8. [Journals; votes; doors open; adjournment.] Each House shall keep a journal of its proceedings and publish them (except such parts as may require secrecy) and the yeas and nays of the members on any question, shall at the desire of any two of them be entered on the Journal. All votes in either House shall be viva voce. The doors of each House, and of Committee of the Whole, shall be open, unless when the business shall be such as ought to be kept secret. Neither House shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days.

SEC. 9. [Bills; origin, amendment.] Any bill may originate in either house of the Legislature, except bills appropriating money, which shall originate only in the House of Representatives, and all bills passed by one House, may be amended by the other.

SEC. 10. [Bill, style, final passage.] The style of all bills shall be "Be it enacted by the people of the State of Nebraska," and no law shall be enacted except by bill. No bill shall be passed by the legislature unless by assent of a majority of all the members elected to each house of the legislature and the question upon final passage shall be taken immediately upon its last reading and the yeas and nays shall be entered upon the journal.

SEC. 11. [Bills; reading, printing, subject, title, amendment, signing.] Every bill and concurrent resolution shall be read at large on three different days in each house, and the bill and all amendments thereto shall be printed before the vote is taken upon its final passage. No bill shall contain more than one subject, and the same shall be clearly expressed in its title. And no law shall be amended unless the new act contain the section or sections so amended and the section or sections so amended shall be repealed. The presiding Officer of each House shall sign in the presence of the House over which he presides, while the same is in session and capable of transacting business, all bills and concurrent resolutions passed by the legislature.

SEC. 12. [Privilege from arrest.] Members of the Legislature in all cases except treason, felony or breach of the peace, shall be privileged from arrest during the session of the legislature, and for fifteen days next before the commencement and after the termination thereof.

SEC. 13. [Disabilities of members.] No person elected to the Legislature shall receive any civil appointment within this State from the Governor and senate during the term for which he has been elected. And all such appointments and all votes given for any such member for any such office or appointment, shall be void. Nor shall any member of the Legislature, or any state officer be interested either