-OF THE

Indiana State Senate,

-DURING THE

FIFTY-FIFTH SESSION

-OF TH

GENERAL AssembLY,

-COMMENCING

Thursday, January 6, 1887.

REGULAR SESSION.

INDIANAPOLIS:

WM. B. BURFORD, CONTRACTOR FOR STATE PRINTING AND BINDING.

JOURNAL

OF THE

SENATE OF INDIANA.

THURSDAY MORNING.

JANUARY 6, 1887.

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, Senate Chamber, in the State Capitol Building, at 10 o'clock A. M.

Senator A. G. Smith, President pro iem. of the Senate, called the Senate to order.

After which the Senate was led in prayer by Bishop Knickerbocker, of Indianapolis.

The Auditor of State was directed to call the roll of the holdover Senators.

Twenty-four Senators, elected in 1884 for the constitutional term of four years, appeared and answered to their names, as follows:

From Marion and Hancock, L. O. Bailey.

From Clinton and Montgomery, D. C. Bryant. From Hendricks and Putnam, L. M. Campbell. 165529

From Elkhart, W. J. Davis.

From Floyd and Washington, J. S. Day.
From Lagrange and Steuben, J. S. Drake.
From Tipton and Hamilton, C. C. Duncan.
From Dekalb and Noble, N. Ensley.
From Owen and Clay, Inman H. Fowler.
From Decatur and Shelby, F. M. Howard.
From Fayette and Henry, J. N. Huston.
From Randolph and Delaware, J. W. Macy.
From Fountain and Warren, A. Marshall.

From Kosciusko and Wabash, Geo. Moon.

From Montgomery, Boone and Clinton, Silas Peterson.
From Vanderburgh, William Rahm, Jr.

From Vigo, Phillip Schloss.

From White, Pulaski and Carroll, E. B. Sellers.

From Grant and Madison, J. S. Shively.

From Jennings, Scott and Clark, A. G. Smith.

From Marion, W. C. Thompson.

From Marion, F. Winter.

From Laporte, Morgan H. Wier.

From Fulton and Marshall, V. Zimmerman.

Twenty-six Senators, elected last November, 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. Allen Zollars, Judge of the Supreme Court of Indiana, in the following order:

From Orange, Crawford and Harrison, Jas. M. Andrew.
From Allen, J. M. Barrett.

From Knox and Pike, William W. Berry.

From Morgan, Johnson and Bartholomew, Jas. F. Cox.

From Porter and Lake, Mark L. DeMotte.

From Tippecanoe, J. M. Dresser.