Schleicher RETURNS OF AN ELECTION HELD NOVEMBER 3, 1896. For Governor Votes. and place Senate bill No. 11 on its secC. A. Culberson received....298,528 ond reading. Jerome C. Kearby received..238,692 On motion of Mr. Garrison, House Randolph Clark received... 1,876 Rule No. 31, requiring that all bills Scattering 682 reported favorably be printed and laid For Lieutenant-Governoron the desk of each member before Geo. T. Jester received... .306,244 acted on by the House, was suspended. H. S. P. Ashby received. 230,863 Mr. Garrison then moved to suspend H. Bradford received. 2,008 the constitutional rule requiring bills Scattering 495 to be read on three several days in Whereupon, Hon. L. T. Dashiell, each house, and that the bill be put on acting in his constitutional capacity as its second reading and passage to a Speaker of the House of Representathird reading. tives of the Twenty-fifth Legislature of Texas, announced as follows: The motion prevailed by the following vote: Alexander. Barbee. Yeas-109. Hensley. Hill of Gonzales. Hill of Travis. Humphrey. Beaird. Jones. Bean. "Charles A. Culberson having received the highest number of votes cast, I, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of Texas, declare him legally and constitutionally elected Governor of Texas for the ensuing term of two years." "George T. Jester having received the highest number of votes cast, I, Bennett. by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of Texas, declare him legally and constitutionally Blackburn. elected Lieutenant-Governor of Texas for the ensuing term of two years." The Speaker then announced that the business of the joint session was concluded, and on motion of Senator Colquitt the Senate retired to its chamber. IN THE HOUSE. The Speaker then delivered the election returns used in counting the vote into the hands of Assistant Sergeantat-Arms W. H. Taylor, and directed him to deliver them in person to the Secretary of State. COMMITTEE REPORTS. Committee Room, Austin, Tex., Jan. 18, 1897. Hon. L. T. Dashiell, Speaker of the Your Finance Committee, to whom was referred Senate bill No. 11, a bill to be entitled "An act appropriating one hundred and ten thousand dollars to pay members' mileage and per diem, and officers' and employes' per diem of the Twenty-fifth Legislature," Have had the same under consideration, and I am instructed to report the same back to the House with the Bertram. Blair. Bounds. Kirk. Maxwell. McFarland. McGaughey. McKamy. McKellar. Meade. Melton. Moore of Lamar. Morris. Morton. Burney. Carpenter. Mundine. O'Connor. recommendation that the bill do pass. Gilbough. GARRISON, Chairman. SPEAKER'S TABLE. On motion of Mr. Garrison, the regular order was suspended to take up Rudd. Senate bill No. 11 was laid before the House on its second reading. On motion of Mr. Garrison, rule No. 73, requiring the House to go into a committee of the whole to consider all bills carrying appropriations, was suspended. The bill was then read second time and was passed to a third reading. Mr. Garrison then moved to suspend the constitutional rule requiring bills to be read on three several days in each house, and that the bill be put on its third reading and final passage. The motion prevailed by the following vote: Yeas-110. Dennis. Dickinson. Dies. Dorroh. Doyle. Edwards. Evans of Grayson. Evans of Hunt. Ewing. Feild of Grayson. Fields of Hill. Fisher. Pfeuffer. Pitts. Porter. Randolph. Rhea. Robbins. Bell. Blair. Drew. Flint. Wolters. Ward. Welch. Wilcox. Williams. Wood. Nays-none. Absent. Jones. Moore, Fort Bend. Patterson. Schlick. Alexander. Ayers. Bailey. Barbee. Barrett. Beaird. Bean. Benson. Bennett. Alexander. Bertram. Ayers. Lird. Bailey. Blackburn. Barbee. Carswell. Barrett. Childs. |