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the Session of 1916. Which favorable report was adopted and
order passed by yeas and nays as follows:

Messrs. — AFFIRMATIVE.

President Chesley Holmead Ogden Zihlman

Allen Collier Johnson Parsons

Archer Cooper Jones Shepherd

Bennett Duvall Joy Speicher

Bomberger Frick Mudd Warfield

Brown Harrison Norris Williams Total—25

NEGATIVE.

Mr. Legg Total—1

Also favorably the following order: Ordered, That King
Brothers, State Printers, be paid the sum of one hundred and
fifty dollars (1150) for furnishing to the Department of Legis-
lative Reference, Baltimore, Maryland, 15 copies of all Bills,
four copies of each of House and Senate Journals and one
copy each of third reading file Bills of House and Senate dur-
ing this Session; the same to be taken from the appropriation
for State printing for this Session. Which favorable report
was adopted and order passed by yeas and nays as follows:

Messrs. — AFFIRMATIVE.

President Chesley Holmead Ogden Zihlman

Allen Collier Johnson Parsons

Archer Cooper Jones Shepherd

Bennett Duvall Joy Speicher

Bomberger Frick Mudd Warfield

Brown Harrison Norris Williams Total—25

NEGATIVE.

Mr. Le^g Total—1
The President delivered the following address:

Gentlemen of the Senate:

The time has arrived when, by the limitations of the Consti-
tution of the State, the General Assembly of 1916 must come
to a close, and I desire briefly to review and comment on some
of its work.

The Democratic party was in the majority at the close of the
polls on the last general election day; it organized both
branches of the Assembly; and, while its control was less than
in many of the sessions of the past, yet it will be held re-
sponsible to the people for results and will be judged by the
acts as a party by the record made.

Platforms are hurriedly made—ofttimes without a thought
that the ordinary prudent business man would give to the
preparation of a contract—and the old saying was that "plat-

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