title of the kingdom and the name of the constitution in a brief manner.
made some further remarks relative to the organization of the council, showing his reasons for proposing the resolution requiring secrecy. We had been betrayed in every council, and even since the organization of this council we have been betrayed and sacred matters have leaked out.
suggested the propriety of adopting as the name of the council the title of “moot legislature”, also the propriety of the appointing standing committees to transact business in Parliamentary order.
The wanted to know of this council whether the building of the shall be delayed any longer, or shall the hands begin work immediately.
Woodworth introduced the resolution calling for an oath of secrecy when the council was organized a year earlier. (Council of Fifty, “Record,” 11 Mar. 1844.)