1916] OF THE SENATE. 5

Peter J. Campbell was declared elected President of the
Senate.

Senators Cooper and Zihlman were appointed to escort
President Campbell to the Chair.

Upon taking the Chair, the President delivered the fol-
lowing address:

Gentlemen of the Senate of Maryland:

I appreciate more than words can express the honor of
election as your presiding officer for the session of 1916. Com-
ing as it has, without a single solicitation on my part to any-
one, high or low, I feel in greater measure the responsibility
incurred, and that because of the many positive expressions
of kindness and courtesy on your part, irrespective of politics,
which I shall treasurers long as life lasts. You will pardon
a personal note when I say that I am proud to be a citizen of
the State of Maryland, and that I love with every beat of my
heart my native city of Baltimore and exult with you in pro-
claiming her the metropolis of the South, the Queen of the
Chesapeake. I yield to her your tribute of honor and place
it at her gate, as one of the native few called and chosen to
this position. Forty-seven citizens of the State have been se-
lected for the high honor of President of the Senate since
Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer, of Charles county, brought his
gavel down on a call for order in the year 1777. The city of
Baltimore was then a mere village; it is the youngest of At-
lantic seaports today, yet in 1794 Daniel Carroll, of the Car-
rolls of Carrollton, of Baltimore city, was selected; he re-
signed and a Revolutionary hero, who name is emblazoned on
two proud streets and whose statue adorns our parks, was
selected as his successor—John Eager Howard. Many years
passed before the State called to its service in this branch
another resident of the city, yet in the stress of war Lieutenant-
Governor Christopher C. Cox, in 1866, extra and the regular
session of 1867, presided over the deliberations of this body.

In 1872 Henry Snyder was selected, and in 1896 the gifted,
brilliant and talented William Cabell Bruce, in a memorable
session, added to the fame of Baltimore as President of the
Seriate of Maryland. It is not a long record of six in 139
years, yet it is consistent. As Baltimore has grown, so has
the State. A native son of Harford county as mayor, with
an energy and ability unparalleled in the history of munici-
palities, has raised the biggest crop of enemies and at the
same time put Baltimore in the first place in the front rank
of cities of the first class.