1904.] OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. 77

ton, Lansdale, Williams, Drumm, Feaga, Loar, Stump,
Jenkins, Haines, Kain, Oursler, Gill, Pearre, Bennett,
Hearn, Messick, Harvey, Howard—99
NEGVTIVE—None.

REPORTS OF SELECT COMMITTEES.

Mr. Andrew, from Select Committee, reported favor-
ably,

House bill entitled "Au Act to provide for building
on to the Court House at Bel Air, in Harford county."

Which was read a first time.

JOINT CONVENTION OF THE GENERAL AS-
SEMBLY OF MARYLAND.

ELECTION OF A SENATOR IN CONGRESS.
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 Hcuse of Delegates, for the purpose of con-
vening 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
succession 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 Secretery 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 Clerk of the House of Delegates read the
Journal of the proceedings of the House of Delegates
on the preceding day, in relation to Senator to Con-
gress from this State, showing the fact that no person
at the vote so taken had received a majority of all the