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SATURDAY, January 30, 1904.

The House met at 11.30 a. m., land was opened with
prayer b.y the Rev. James Earle Maloy.

Present at the call of the roll the following mem-
bers :

Messrs. Speaker, Duvall, Dawkins, Lansdale, Wil-
liams, Kain—6.

The Speaker of the House of Delegates then an-
nounced that a quorum not being present, the House
could not proceed to business, and ordered the Ser-
geant-at-Arms to bring in the absentees.

The Sergeant at Arms reported that he was unable
to find any of the absent members

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 the House
Committee, Messrs. Williams and Duvall appeared at
the Hall of the House of Delegates, for the purpose of
convening in Joint Assembly with that body for the
election a United States Senator in the Congress of the
United States for six years, in succession of the Hon.
Louis E. McComas, whose term of office will expire
March 4th, A. D., 1905.

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