178 JOURNAL OF, PROCEEDINGS [Feb. 2

Committee on Ways and Means and the Committee on
Finance of the respective Houses, and that the Com-
mittee be and they are hereby instructed to report on
March 17th, 1904, a general bill embracing all such
bills and leaves, except where there is a special reason
for more speedy action, in which case separate bills
are to be introduced; and we respectfully concnr
therein.

By order,

ROBERT Moss,

Secretary.
Which was read.

JOINT CONVENTION OF THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY 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 Sec-
tary of the Senate, and it appeared that 22 members
were present.

The Clerk of the House of Delegates then proceeded
to call the roll of the House of Delegates, and 89
Members answerd to their names.

The Secretary of the Senate then read the Journal
of proceedings of the Senate of the preceding day, in