OF THE

INDIANA STATE SENATE

DURING THE

Fifty-ninth Session

OF THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

COMMENCING

Thursday, January 10, 1895.

REGULAR SESSION.

INDIANAPOLIS:

WM. B. BURFORD, CONTRACTOR FOR STATE PRINTING AND BINDING.

1895.

JOURNAL

OF THE

STATE SENATE OF INDIANA.

THURSDAY MORNING.

JANUARY 10, 1895.

This being the day prescribed by the Constitution of the State of Indiana (Art. IV, Sec. 9) for the meeting of the General Assembly, Senators holding over and Senators-elect met in the city of Indianapolis, Senate Chamber, in the State capitol building, at 10 o'clock A. M.

Lieutenant-Governor Mortimer Nye, President of the Senate, called the Senate to order.

After which the Senate was led in prayer by Rev. Dr. C. N. Sims, pastor of the Meridian Street M. E. Church, of Indianapolis.

Twenty four Senators elected in 1892 for the constitutional term of four years appeared and answered to their names as follows, Auditor of State John Oscar Henderson calling the roll of Senators:

From Grant and Madison, Oscar A. Baker.

From Clark, Jennings and Scott, Willis L. Barnes.

From Whitley and Allen, Oehmig Bird.

From Pulaski, White and Carroll, James M. Beck.
From Warren and Fountain, Fred. Boord.

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From Boone and Hamilton, Thomas E. Boyd.
From Delaware and Randolph, Ozro N. Cranor.
From Laporte, Jonathan W. Crumpacker.
From Clinton and Tipton, George H. Gifford.
From Marion, John W. Kern.

From Washington and Floyd, Isaac P. Leyden.
From Lagrange and Steuben, Silas B. McManus.
From Vanderburgh, Andrew J. McCutchan.
From Noble and Dekalb, James E. McDonald.

From Marion, James F. McHugh.

From Clay and Owen, Samuel R. McKelvey.
From Vigo, William E. McLean.

From Henry and Fayette, Leonidas P. Newby.
From Marshall and Fulton, Samuel Parker.

From Putnam and Montgomery, James M. Seller.
From Marion, Romus F. Stuart.

From Kosciusko and Wabash, John D. Thayer.

From Marion and Hendricks, Albert W. Wishard.
From Shelby and Decatur, Albert F. Wray.

Senator from Elkhart, Alonzo W. Vail, being absent.

Twenty-five Senators, elected last November, came forward as their districts were called, and standing in front of the Secretary's desk took the oath of office as administered by the Hon. James McCabe, Judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Indiana, in the following order:

From Ripley, Franklin and Union, Francis M. Alexander. From Knox and Pike, William J. Bethell.

From Gibson and Posey, Virgil P. Bozeman.

From Cass, Marcus W. Collett.

From Bartholomew, Brown and Monroe, Henry C. Duncan.

From Allen, Thomas E. Ellison.

From Lake and Porter, William H. Gostlin.