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JOURNAL

OF THE

INDIANA STATE SENATE,

DURING THE

FIFTY-SECOND SESSION

OF THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

COMMENCING ON THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1881.

REGULAR SESSION.

INDIANAPOLIS:

CARLON & HOLLENBECK, PRINTERS AND BINDERS.

1881.

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JOURNAL

OF THE

SENATE OF INDIANA.

THURSDAY MORNING.

JANUARY 6, 1881.

This being the day prescribed by the Constitution of the State of Indiana (Article IV, section 9) for the meeting of the General Assembly, Senators holding over and Senators elect met in the city of Indianapolis, in the Superior Court room, in the northeast corner of the Marion county Court-house, at 10 o'clock a. M.

Under authority contained in the statute of December 23, 1872, the Auditor of State, Hon. Mahlon D. Manson, commanded order, and the session was opened with prayer by Elder W. B. F. Treat, of the Christian Church in Monroe county.

Twenty-five Senators elected in October, 1877, for the constitutional term of four years, appeared and answered to their names, as follows:

From the counties of Posey and Gibson, Gustavus V. Menzies. From the counties of Warrick and Pike, Thomas B. Hart. From the counties of Spencer and Perry, Henry Kramer. From the counties of Crawford, Harrison and Orange, John Benz.

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From the counties of Dubois, Martin and Lawrence, William Traylor.

From the counties of Clark and Scott, Moses Poindexter.

From the county of Jefferson, E. R. Wilson.

From the counties of Franklin and Ripley, S. E. Urmstan. From the counties of Dearborn and Ohio, Lavin J. Woollen. From the counties of Brown, Monroe and Bartholomew, Richard L. Coffey.

From the counties of Greene and Daviess, David J. Hefron.
From the counties of Knox and Sullivan, Frederick W. Viehe.
From the counties of Parke and Vermillion, Oliver P. Davis.
From the county of Wayne, Daniel W. Comstock.

From the counties of Randolph and Delaware, Marcus C. Smith.
From the counties Howard and Miami, Milton Garrigus.
From the county of Tippecanoe, Byron W. Langdon.

From the counties of Benton, Newton and Jasper, George W. Majors.

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From the counties of Lake and Porter, Thomas J. Woods. From the counties of St. Joseph and Starke, David R. Leeper. From the county of Cass, Charles Kahlo.

From the county of Allen, Thomas J. Foster.

From the county of Huntington and Wells, Abner H. Shaffer. From the counties of Adams, Jay and Blackford, Thomas S. Briscoe.

From the counties of Morgan and Johnson, George W. Grubbs.

Twenty-five Senators, elected last October, came forward as their districts were called, and, standing in front of the Secretary's table, took the oath of office as administered by the Hon. Wm. E. Niblack, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of Indiana, in the following order:

From the county of Vanderburgh, Wm. Rahm, Jr.

From the counties of Decatur and Shelby, Francis M. Howard. From the counties of Floyd and Washington, Samuel B. Voyles.

From the counties of Jackson and Jennings, Jason B. Brown. From the county of Vigo, Francis V. Bischowsky. From the counties of Clay and Owen, Isaac M. Compton. From the counties of Henry, Delaware and Randolph, Eugene H. Bundy.

From the counties of Boone and Clinton, Henry M. Marvin.

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