388 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Mar. 2

Also

SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION No. 2, BY MR. JOY.

SUBJECT: COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF CALVERT
COUNTY TO SUBSCRIBE CAPITAL STOCK OF BALTI-
MORE AND VIRGINIA RAILROAD COMPANY.

Which was read the third time and passed by yeas and nays

as follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. —

President Chesley Holmead Mudd Warfield
Allen Collier Johnson Norris Williams
Archer Cooper Jones Ogden Zihlman
Bennett Duvall Joy Parsons
Bomberger Frick Kaufman Shepherd
Brown Harrison Legg Speicher Total—27

NEGATIVE—None.

[Said Bill was then sent to the House of Delegates. ]
Also

SENATE BILL No. 76, BY MR. COOPER.
SUBJECT: REGULATING THE MAKING OF APPRO-
PRIATIONS BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Which was read the third time and passed by yeas and nays
as follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. —

President Chesley Holmead Mudd Warfield
Allen Collier Johnson Norris Williams
Archer Cooper Jones Ogden Zihlman
Bennett Duvall Joy Parsons
Bomberger Frick Kaufman Shepherd
Brown Harrison Legg Speicher Total—27

NEGATIVE—None.

When the name of Mr. Norris was called, he delivered the
following address:

MR. PRESIDENT:

There comes a time in every man's life when he must decide
between two conflicting thoughts, as to just what is his duty,
and strange to say the time is here when the clear path of my
duty seems to be diametrically opposite to the dictates of my
conscience. My conscience tells me, as a Democrat in the full
sense of the word, that the proposed amendment to the Consti-
tuition is vicious in the extreme, changing as it does the time-
honored principles of our State and National Government,