SENATE JOURNAL

SPECIAL SESSION

ANNAPOLIS, MD., March 13, 1958.

STATE OF MARYLAND, TO WIT :

Thursday, the thirteenth day of March, in the year nineteen hundred
and fifty-eight, at 10:00 o'clock A. M., being the day appointed by the
Proclamation of the Governor of Maryland for the meeting of the General
Assembly of Maryland in Special Session, the Senate was called to order
by the Secretary of the Senate.

The following Senators answered to their names: Bertorelli, Cole,
Dean, Della, Dempsey, DiDomenico, Downey, Flanagan, Friend, Goodman,
James, Johnson, Malkus, Mason, Mattingly, Mudd, Mrs. Nock, North, North-
rop, Phipps, Phoebus, Ramsburg, Rasin, Redden, See, Shipley, Turnbull,
Goldstein, Wheatley.

Twenty-nine Senators having answered to their names and a quorum
being present, the Senate of Maryland (Special Session of March 13th,
1958) is now ready for the transaction of business.

Prayer was offered by Rev. Donald E. Lewis.

The Hon. Louis L. Goldstein was unanimously nominated and elected
as President of the Senate.

The Hon. Louis L. Goldstein, being elected President, was escorted
to the chair.

PROCLAMATION BY THE GOVERNOR OF MARYLAND
CONVENING THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND

IN EXTRAORDINARY SESSION AT ANNAPOLIS,
MARYLAND, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1958
AT 10:00 a. m.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT

WHEREAS, the 1958 session of the General Assembly was confronted
with pressing budgetary and financial problems which were difficult of
solution because of a number of factors; and

WHEREAS, in order ultimately to reach a majority accord to fulfill
the Constitutional obligations and duties of the Legislature within the
thirty day limitation of Section 15 of Article III of the Constitution of
Maryland, it was necessary to resort to an unprecedented degree to the
practice or custom of turning back the clock, accompanied by extended
recesses, so that legislative days did not keep pace with calendar days; and