1904.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 155-

JOINT CONVENTION OF THE GENERAL ASSEM-
BLY OF MARYLAND.

ELECTION OF A SENATOR IN CONGRESS.

Pursuant to adjournment,

The hour of 12 o'clock, meridian, having arrived,
The Senators of Maryland, escorted by Messrs. Col-
lins and Feaga, the committee appointed by the House
of Delegates for that purpose, appeared in the Hall of
the House of Delegates for the purpose of convening
with the Members'of the House of Delegates in Joint
Assembly, for the election of a Senator from this State,
for a term of six years, from March 4th, 1905, in suc-
cession of the Hon. Louis E. McComas, whose term
will then expire.

The Speaker of the House of Delegates assumed the
Chair as Chairman of the Joint Assembly.

The roll of Senators was then called by the Secre-
tary of the Senate, and it appeared that 24 Senators
answered to their names.

The Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates then
called the roll of the House, and 93 Members answered
to their names.

The Secretary of the Senate then read the Journal
of proceedings "of the Senate of the preceding day, in
relation to the election of a Senator in Congress from
this State, for the term ending on the 4th day of
March, 1911.

After which,

The Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates read the
proceedings of the House of Delegates on the preced-
ing day in relation to the balloting for a Senator in
the Congress of the United States from this State,
showing the fact that no person, at the vote so taken,
had received a majority of all the votes cast by the
Joint Assembly for Senator in the Congress of the
United States from this State, for the term of six
years, ending March 4th, A. D. 1911.

The Speaker of the House of Delegates, as Chair-