128 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 16,

aso erased and for the candidate or candidates in the
other party column or group opposite to whose names
the voter shall have put his cross-mark."

Which were considered, and
On motion by Mr. Pearre,

Said bill and amendment was ordered to lie over
and be made the Order of the Day for Thursday,
March 17th, at 1 P. M.

ORDER OF THE DAY.

The hour of 12:30 having arrived, the Senate pro-
ceeded to the consideration of the Order of the Day,
feeing the majority and minority reports of the Com-
mittee on Elections in the contested election case of
Bird vs. Talbot.

Mr. Pearre moved that the minority report be sub-
stituted for that of the majority.

Which was determined in the negative, by yeas and

nays as follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. Coffin, Posey,

Pearre, Wilkinson—4.
NEGATIVE.

Messrs. President, Newman,
Austin, Robinson,
Brown, Rogers,
Dawson, Seibert,
Evans, Smith,
Getty, Toadvin,
Gorter, Waters,
Hayes, Wirt,
Hepbron, Wotton—19.
Hubner,

The majority report of the Committe was then
adopted.

At 3,10 P. M.,

On motion by Mr. Hayes,
The Senate took a recess until 8 P. M.