1904.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 215

JOINT CONVENTION OF THE GENERAL ASSEM-
BLY OF MARYLAND.

ELECTION OE 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. Collins and Faega, appeared at the
Hall of the House of Delegates, for the purpose of
convening in Joint Assembly with that body for the
election of 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 ex-
pire March 4th, A. D., 1905.

The Speaker of the Hou&e of Delegates assumed the
Chair as Chairman of the Joint Assembly.

The roll of the Senators was then called by the Sec-
retary of the Senate, and it appeared that 26 Senators
answered to their names.

The Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates then pro-
ceeded to call the roll of the House of Delegates, and
100 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 frjm 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.

Whereupon,

The Speaker of the House of Delegates, as Chair-