CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE-SENATE.

TWENTIETH SESSION.

SENATE CHAMBER,

1873.}

Monday, December 1st, 1873.

The Senate met at twelve o'clock M., pursuant to the requirements of the Constitution of the State of California.

By invitation of the President, Reverend J. H. C. Bonte offered a prayer.

Lieutenant Governor R. Pacheco, the President, addressed the Senate as follows:

SENATORS: I recognize among your familiar assembled body the familiar countenances of nearly a score of those who served here two years since. To you and to our new Senators I extend a most cordial and hearty greeting. I am sure I can read upon the faces of all around us the determination to do their duty in every particular. But whilst expressing our congratulations, a sad thought obtrudes itself. Death has swept from our midst three out of the forty Senators who were assembled here during the last session. We deplore their loss, and sympathise with their families and friends in their grief.

We are here, as it were, a distinct department of the Government. Representing as you do the people of your State, they expect from you careful attention to its best interests, and wise and just laws for its protection and government. As the accurate and just administration of parliamentary law is of most vital importance to the dignity and welfare of this body, a close adherence to the establithed forms of parliamentary procedure will, I am convinced, best promote that end.

As all here should feel equally interested in the maintenance of order and justice, I request your hearty aid in the close observation of these rules. That I am here with the resolve to perform my obligations toward you to the best of my ability, I beg you to believe. It is my earnest wish to be just and impartial in the enforcement of the rules that will be adopted by you, and if I err at any time I shall depend

upon your courtesy and forbearance to excuse what I am sure will be mistakes of the head-not of the heart.

Senators, the Chair will await your pleasure, and we will now proceed to business. The Secretary will call the roll of hold-over Senators.

The roll of Senators holding over was called, and the following Senators responded:

M. C. Andross, Thomas Beck, John Boggs, L. D. Crane, J. J. De Haven, J. A. Duffy, B. Dyer, George S. Evans, S. J. Finney, W. T. Garratt, D. Goodale, Charles Kent, T. L. Keys, James McCoy, H. J. McKusick, J. McMurry, Jacob H. Neff, George Oulton, W. W. Pendegast.

The newly elected Senators presented their credentials and took the oath of office, administered by the Hon. A. L. Rhodes, Justice of the Supreme Court.

The following are the names of Senators elect, who responded to the call of the roll:

Washington Bartlett, C. W. Bush, W. A. Eakin, Henry Edgerton, James T. Farley, Thomas Fraser, Edward Gibbons, W. J. Graves, W. C. Hendricks, R. Hopkins, William Irwin, H. T. Laine, Tipton Lindsey, N. Martin, H. E. McCune, M. P. O'Connor, George C. Perkins, Philip A. Roach, S. Spencer, H. K. Turner, and B. F. Tuttle.

On motion of Mr. Pendegast, the rules of the last session of the Senate were adopted for the temporary use of this Senate.

At twelve o'clock and twenty-five minutes P. M., on motion of Mr. Pendegast, the Senate adjourned until to-morrow at twelve o'clock M.

On motion of Mr. Oulton, the Senate proceeded to the election of officers of the Senate for the present session.

PRESIDENT PRO TEM.

Mr. Keys nominated the Hon. William Irwin.
Mr. Dyer nominated the Hon. George S. Evans.

The roll was called, with the following result:

The roll was called for a second ballot, with the following result: