JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1877-12 o'clock M.

At a meeting of the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, assembled in accordance with the constitution and laws, at the capitol in the city of Springfield, at 12 o'clock noon the 3d day of January, A. D. 1877, being the first session of the Thirtieth General Assembly, the following proceedings were had in the House of Representatives:

In accordance with the provisions of the 9th section of article 4, of the constitution, the House was called to order by the Hon. George H. Harlow, Secretary of State.

Prayer was offered by the Rev. F. M. Gregg.

The roll of members, as officially prepared by the Secretary of State from the returns in his office, was called, when the following were found present and answered to their names:

Names.

County.

Names.

County.

Collier, John H..
Connelly, Thomas...
Cronkrite, Edward L...
Crooker, Lucien P..
Curtis, Alfred S.....
Davis, Hope S...
Dennis, Edward M.
Dewey, John S....
Dunne, Michael J...
Easton, Charles L.....
English, John N.
Evans, Henry H....
Evans, Wm. M..

Fosbender, Charles.

Fountain Theophilus T..
Foutch, John.....
Fox, John P...

Fritts, Thomas J......
Gilbert, Alvan..
Gill, Charles F..
Goodrich, Luke H.
Graham, Ross.
Granger, Flavel K.
Gray, George B...
Grenell, Rufus M..

Absent-Andrew J. Reavill, of Crawford county.

Lee..

Jo Daviess..

Brown...
Cook
Hancock.
Macoupin
Williamson.
Pulaski.
St. Clair..
Cook
McDonough.
Mason,
St. Clair..
McDonough

St. Clair....
Wabash.
Jefferson
McLean
Peoria
Jackson..
DuPage..
Montgomery.

Mr. Goodrich, of Will, nominated Flavel K. Granger, of McHenry county, for temporary Speaker of the House.

Mr. Herrington, of Kane county, nominated Geo. W. Armstrong, of La Salle county, for temporary Speaker.

Upon a call of the roll Mr. Granger was elected by the following

vote:

Granger, 77 votes; Armstrong, 75 votes.

Those voting for Mr. Granger are:

Abel, Armstrong, Baldwin, Bartholow, Bielfeldt, Black, Bower, Boydston, Browning, Budlong, Byers, Chambers, Chesley, Collier, Crooker, Curtis, Dewey, Easton, Evans of Bond, Evans of Kane, Fountain, Foutch, Fox, Gilbert, Goodrich, Graham, Gray, Heslet, Hollister, Hopkins, Hurd, James, Kedzie, Kiolbassa, Koplin, Latimer, Leeper, Lindsey, Lott, Matthews, Mitchell, Monohon, Morris, Morrison of Morgan, Neal, Nevitt, Oakwood, Pierce of Pope, Phillips of Franklin, Powers, Ranney, Reed, Reman, Roche, Ross, Rowett, Secrist, Shaw, Sherman, Sittig, Smith of Tazewell, Taggart, Taylor of Cook, Thomas, Thompson, Tice, Tierney, Tyrrell, Wells. Westfall, Wheeler, Wilkinson, Winter, Wood, Woodward, Wright, Zepp-77.