porters as in his judgment may be to secure good and serviceable typewriters, necessary. It is recommended that the compensation of the officers and employees named shall be the same as at the Regular Session of this Legislature, unless otherwise expressly provided, except that no employees compensation shall be more than $7.50 per day. The Lieutenant Governor is authorized and directed to use any of the employees needed for any other work in the Senate where, in his judgment, their services may be required. The Senators are hereby given such time as they desire to name their personal appointments, whose names shall be given to the Secretary of the Senate when the appointments are made. It is also recommended that 2500 copies of the daily Senate Journal be printed to be prorated among the members of the Senate and the Lieutenant Governor for direction of their distribution, except that 300 copies shall be furnished the members of the House; that the Sergeant-at-Arms be authorized to rent such number of typewriters as may be necessary for the use of the employees of the Senate, the rental charges not to exceed $4.00 per month for each machine; that the Lieutenant Governor and each Senator be allowed the stationery and postage needed by them respectively, and also any expenses incurred by them in the transmitting and receiving of telephone messages and telegraph messages necessary in the discharge of their official duties; and that each Senator and the Lieutenant Governor be permitted to subscribe for five daily papers, all such incidental expenses to be paid out of the contingent expense fund. THEREFORE, Be it resolved that the Sergeant-at-Arms be and is hereby ordered to negotiate with typewriter dealers at any point in the State to the end that good and serviceable typewriters be obtained for use of the secretaries of the Senators. The above resolution was unanimously adopted by the Senate Caucus in the office of the Secretary of the Senate, Monday, May 9, 1927. BARRY MILLER, Chairman, JOE M. MOORE, Secretary. The resolution was read and adopted. Simple Resolution No. 2. Senator Wood sent up the following resolution: Resolved, that the Legislative Counsellor, L. C. Sutton, who served the Senate during the Regular Session of the 40th Legislature shall serve in the same capacity and under the same terms and duties as was provided in the Resolution for the Regular Session, and shall have a stenographer as provided in said resolution. The resolution was read and adopted. Simple Resolution No. 8. Senator MacFarlane sent up the following resolution: Resolved, that Murray Moore be elected Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms in the gallery. MCFARLANE. The resolution was read and adopted. Officers Sworn In. The officers elected were called to the bar of the Senate and the oath of office was administered. Employees Appointed. BARRY MILLER, Chairman, JOE M. MOORE, Secretary. The Secretary upon the direction of the Chair cast the vote of the Senate for the officers named in the nounced the following appointments: report, and the officers were declared elected. Simple Resolution No. 1. The Lieutenant Governor an Sloan Blair, Private Secretary; Elise Burnett, Assistant Secretary; Joe Erwin, Personal Messenger; Jimmie Teeling, page to the Lieutenant Howard Weddington, Night Elevator Operator. Senator Moore sent up the follow-Governor; ing resolution: A caucus resolution by Senator J. W. Hall of Harris County. Pages. WHEREAS, The Sergeant-at- Junius Hutton, Milburn McCarty, Arms has been unable, in the past, Elwood Brown, Walter Harper, Clarence Pearson, Chas. A. Wheeler, the Senate appoint a committee of Jr., Bobbie Randolph, Maurice Mor- Porters. Jim Jackson, head porter, Buck Green, Sam Grant, Tom Burton, Fred Rambeau, Henry Canady, Robert Wells. Election of President Pro Tem. The Chair announced that the election of President Pro Tem was in order. Senator Price nominated Senator Pollard for President Pro Tem. Senators Lewis, Greer, and Real were appointed tellers to distribute and collect the ballots. The tellers, after a poll of the votes, announced that Senator Pollard had received 25 votes and Senator Stuart 1 vote. The tellers escorted Senator Pollard to the rostrum where he took the oath of office administered by Lieutenant Governor Barry Mil ler. three Senators to notify the Governor that the Senate has completed its organization, and is ready to receive from him any message or communication he may desire to transmit to it. Be it further resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has completed its organization and is now ready to proceed to business. The resolution adopted. was read and Simple Resolution No. 5. Senator Love sent up the following resolution: Resolved, That the State Senate of Texas has learned with profound regret of the tornado which visited Garland and vicinity in Dallas County, Texas, Nevada and vicinity in Collin County, Texas, early today, taking as its toll the lives of more than a score of Texas citizens and seriously injuring many others, besides inflicting severe and grievous property losses, and we tender the splendid citizenship of these stricken communities our heartfelt sympathy, and our support in all proper ways in the Appointment of Enrolling and En- presence of this terrible calamity. grossing Clerk. Senate Chamber, Austin, Texas, May 9, 1927. We, as Chairmen of the Engrossing and Enrolling Committees, have selected the following clerks for the Engrossing and Enrolling Room: C. L. Boes, Chief Clerk and head of the Engrossing and Enrolling Room at $7.50 per day; R. S. Terry, Clerk at $7.50 per day and the following clerks at $5.00 per day: Miss Mildred Newland, Miss HanJoseph, Miss Audry Wilborn, Miss Anie Davis, Miss Lillian Patterson, Mrs. J. E. Greenwood, Teagle, Paul Midkiff, Tom Tucker, and Geo. Stephens, Messenger. WESTBROOK, FLOYD, nah Chairmen. Ed The appointments were confirmed by the Senate. Simple Resolution No. 4. The resolution was read and adopted. Senator Wood sent up the follow-gency." ing resolution: Read first time and referred to Resolved, That the President of Committee on Finance. By Senator Wood: at Mechanical College, of Texas, State the North S. B. No. 2, A bill to be entitled Experimental Stations; "An Act making appropriations to Texas Junior Agricultural College; pay salaries of judges, and the sup- John Tarleton Agricultural College; port and maintenance of the Judicial Prairie View State Normal and InDepartment of the State Government dustrial College; the University of for the two year period beginning Texas, including the Medical Branch Galveston and the College of Septmeber 1, 1927, and ending August 31, 1929, and declaring an emer- Mines and Metallurgy at El Paso; College of Industrial Arts; Texas gency." East Texas Read first time and referred to Technological College; Committee on Finance. State Teachers College at Commerce; North Texas State Teachers College at State Denton; Sam Houston Teachers College at Huntsville; Stephen F. Austin State Teachers College; South Texas State Teachers College; Southwest Texas State Teachers College; Sul Ross College; West Texas Teachers College; Texas School for the Blind and School for the Deaf; for years beginning September 1, 1927, and ending August 31, 1929, and declaring an emergency." By Senator Wood: Read first time and referred to Committee on Finance. S. B. No. 3, A bill to be entitled "An Act making appropriations to pay the salaries of officers and employees of certain eleemosynary institutions of the State and other expenses of maintaining and conducting them for the two fiscal years beginning September 1, 1927, and ending August 31, 1929, as follows, towit: Abilene State Hospital, Austin State School, Austin State Hospital, Pasteur Institute, Confederate Home, Confederate Woman's Home, Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute for Colored Youths, Girls' Training School, Home for Dependent and Neglected S. B. No. 6, A bill to be entitled Children, State Hospital for Crippled "An Act making an appropriation for year and Deformed Children at Galveston, the beginning September 1, State Juvenile Training School, State 1928, and ending August 31, 1929, Orphans Home, Rusk State Hospital, to supplement the State's available San Antonio State Hospital, Terrell school fund, and to be distributed in State Hospital, State Tuberculosis the same manner as that fund is disSanatorium, the laws of this Hospital, State Psychopathic Hospi- State; and declaring an emergency." Read first time and referred to tal, and Criminal Delinquent Negro Girls' Home; and declaring an emer- Committee on Finance. gency." Wichita Falls By Senator Wood: State tributed Read first time and referred to Committee on Finance. By Senator Wood: under By Senator Wood: S. B. No. 7, A bill to be entitled "An Act making an appropriation for the year ending August 31, 1928, S. B. No. 4, A bill to be entitled and for the year ending August 31, "An Act making appropriations for 1929, the same or so much thereof the State Government for two years as may be necessary to be for the beginning September 1, 1927, and purpose of promoting rural school ending August 31, 1929, and for education and equalizing the school other purposes and prescribing cer- opportunities afforded by the State tain regulations and restrictions in respect thereto; and declaring an emergency." to all school children of scholastic age living in small and financially weak districts; etc., and declaring Read first time and referred to an emergency." Committee on Finance. By Senator Wood: S. B. No. 5, A bill to be entitled "An Act making appropriations to pay the salaries of officers and employees of certain educational institutions and other expenses of maintaining and conducting them as fol Read first time and referred to Committee Reports. The Chair recognized the door lows, to-wit: The Agricultural and keeper who introduced the commit APPENDIX. Committee Reports. Committee Room, Austin, Texas, May 9, 1927. Hon. Barry Miller, President of the Senate. Sir: We, your Committee on Finance, to whom was referred for the two year period beginning September 1, 1927, and ending August 31, 1929; and declaring an emergency." Have had the same under consideration and I am instructed to report the same back to the Senate with the recommendation that it do pass. WOOD, Chairman. S. B. No. 1, A bill to be entitled "An Act making an appropriation of the sum of one hundred and sixty thousand dollars ($160,000.00), or Hon. Barry Miller, President of the so much thereof as may be necessary, Committee Room, Austin, Texas, May 9, 1927. S. B. No. 3, A bill to be entitled "An Act making appropriations to pay the salaries of officers and employees of certain eleemosynary institutions of the State and other expenses of maintaining and conducting them for the two fiscal years beginning September 1, 1927, and ending August 31, 1929, as follows, to wit: members, officers or emAbilene State Hospital, Ausployees of the Regular Session of tin State School, Austin State Hospital, Pasteur Institute, Confederate said Legislature; to pay any unpaid claims and accounts of members, of- Home, Confederate Woman's Home, ficers or employees of said session or Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute for Colored Youths, Girls' Training of other persons, authorized either Home for Dependent and by the Senate or the House of Repre- School, sentatives; to pay any and all sums Neglected Children, State Hospital for whatever purpose authorized to for Crippled and Deformed Children be expended by concurrent resolu- at Galveston, State Juvenile TrainSchool, State Orphan Home, tion of the Fortieth Legislature at Rusk State Hospital, San Antonio its Regular Session; to pay the per diem of members, officers or em- State Hospital, Terrell State Hospital, State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, ployees for pre-session and post session work of the First Called Session Wichita Falls State Hospital, State of said Fortieth Legislature; pro- Pyschopathic Hospital, Criminal Deviding how accounts may be ap-linquent Negro Girls' Home; and deproved and audited, and declaring an claring an emergency.' ing Have had the same under conemergency." Have had the same under consideration and I am instructed to resideration, and I am instructed to port same back to the Senate with report the same back to the Senate the recommendation that it do pass. with the recommendation that it do pass, and be not printed. WOOD, Chairman. Committee Room, Austin, Texas, May 9, 1927. Hon. Barry Miller, President of the Senate. Sir: We, your Committee on Finance, to whom was referred S. B. No. 2, A bill to be entitled "An Act making appropriations to pay salaries of judges, and the support and maintenance of the Judicial Department of the State Government WOOD, Chairman. Committee Room, Austin, Texas, May 9, 1927. Hon. Barry Miller, President of the |