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MARCH 1930

SENATE JOURNAL.

FIRST DAY.

Austin, March 14, 1892.

Pursuant to the proclamation of his excellency, the Governor, calling the Twenty-second Legislature together in special session. The Senate met in their chamber at 12 o'clock m., and were called to order by their presiding officer, Hon. Geo. C. Pendleton, Lieutenant Governor of the State. Roll was called by districts,

Whereas, The constitution requires the State to be re-apportioned for certain purposes every ten years, and the time having about expired since the last apportionment, it is now necessary

The following Senators answered to to perform that duty in obedience to

their names:

First district-K. B. Seale.
Third district-W. H. Pope.
Fifth district-Jno. W. Cranford.
Sixth district-W. Cone Johnson.
Seventh district-J. G. Kearby.
Eighth district-W. B. Page.
Ninth district-T. U. Lubbeck.
Thirteenth district-H. M. Garwood.
Sixteenth district-R. S. Kimbrough.
Seventeenth district-H. A. Finch.
Eighteenth district-C. L. Potter.
Twentieth district-A M. Carter,
Twenty-second district-Jno.
Harrison.

ler.

H.

Twenty third district-Geo. W. Ty

Twenty-fourth
Glasscock.
Twenty-fifth district-Wm. Clemens.
Twenty sixth district-R. M. Weise-

district-Geo. W.

ger.

Twenty-seventh district-E. A. At

lee.

Twenty-eighth district-R. H. Bur

ney.

Twenty-ninth district-H. T. Sims. Thirtieth district-L. N. Frank. Thirty-first district-Jas. Clark. When the Fourth and Twelfth districts were called the credentials of Senators H. F. O'Neal and W. W. Searcy were sent up and read.

Quorum present

Prayer by chaplain, Dr. Smoot. Senator Kimbrough moved that the two newly elected Senators come for ward and be sworn in. Adopted. Senators O'Neal and Searcy came fore the bar of the Senate and took the constitutional oath required.

organic law, that the people may have their full and just representation in the next Congress and State Legislature; and,

Whereas, By vote of the qualified electors on the second Tuesday in August, A. D. 1891, five several amendments to the State constitution were adopted and should be put in force at the earliest opportunity consistent with public interest; and,

Whereas, The live stock industries of Texas are being seriously injured by restrictive laws passed by Congress. affecting transportation and sale of cattle under quarantine regulations, which can only be corrected by Legislative action by the State; and,

Whereas, The extravagant issuance of railway and municipal bonds, without valuable, just or proper consideration, but for speculative, fictitious purposes, threaten calamity to public prosperity, depreciate honest securities, cast opprobrium on the State's reputation abroad, and should be checked by just, restrictive laws.

For these and other good and sufficient reasons hereinafter named an

extraordinary occasion has arisen, requiring the legislature to be convened.

Now, therefore, I, James 8. Hogg, governor of the State of Texas, do, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the constitution of said State, here

by call a special session of the Twentysecond legislature, to be convened in the city of Austin, commencing at betwelve o'clock, noon, on Monday, the fourteenth day of March, A. D. 1892, for the following purposes: