OF THE

INDIANA STATE SENATE

DURING THE

Fifty-Seventh Session

OF THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY,

COMMENCING

THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1891.

REGULAR SESSION.

INDIANAPOLIS:

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

1891.

JOURNAL

OF THE

SENATE OF INDIANA.

THURSDAY MORNING.

JANUARY 8, 1891.

This being the day prescribed by the Constitution of the State of Indiana (Article 4, 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.

Lieutenant Governor, Ira J. Chase, called the Senate to

order.

After which the Senate was led in prayer by Rev. Dr. D. R. Lucas, of the Central Christian Church, Indianapolis.

Twenty-four Senators, elected in 1888 for the constitutional term of four years, appeared and answered to their names as follows:

From Hamilton and Tipton, Thomas E. Boyd.

From Clark, Scott and Jennings, Frank B. Burke.

From Clay and Owen, George A. Byrd.

From Lagrange and Steuben, Orville Carver.

From Boone, Clinton and Montgomery, Isaac N. Caster. 165531