CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE-SENATE.

THIRTY-SIXTH SESSION.

IN SENATE.

SENATE CHAMBER,

Monday, January 2, 1905.

The hour of twelve o'clock M. having arrived, Hon. Alden Anderson, Lieutenant-Governor and President of the Senate, called the Senators and Senators-elect to order, and announced that the thirty-sixth session of the Legislature of the State of California was about to convene, and informed the Senators that the following officers of the Senate during the thirty-fifth session of the Legislature were in their respective places in the Senate Chamber, as required by Section 237 of the Political Code: Frank J. Brandon, Secretary; D. G. Holt, Minute Clerk, and J. Louis Martin, Sergeant-at-Arms.

PRAYER.

By invitation of the President, prayer was then offered by the Rev. C. L. Miel of Sacramento.

MOTION.

Senator Pendleton moved that the hold-over Senators take their seats, and that Senators-elect proceed to the bar of the Senate and take their oaths of office on the certificate furnished by the Secretary of State.

Motion carried.

CERTIFICATE FROM SECRETARY OF STATE.

The President directed the Secretary to read the certificate received from the Secretary of State:

STATE OF CALIFORNIA,

DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

I, C. F. Curry, Secretary of State of the State of California, do hereby certify that the following is a complete list of the hold-over Senators, together with those duly elected at the general election, held on the 8th day of November, A. D. 1904, to represent the people of the State of California, at the thirty-sixth session of the Legislature of the said State of California, as appears from the statement of vote, received from the County Clerks of the county or counties, and the Registrar of Voters of the City and County of San Francisco, comprising the several Senatorial districts of the State of California, said statement of vote being of record and on file in this office.

Witness my hand and the Great Seal of the State of California, at office in Sacramento, this 2d day of January, A. D. 1905.

SEAL

C. F. CURRY, Secretary of State.

NAMES OF SENATORS.

The following list of names are those annexed to above certificate:

HOLD-OVER SENATORS.

Second District-Modoc, Lassen, Siskiyou, and Shasta: Clifford Coggins.
Fourth District-Mendocino, Glenn, Colusa, and Lake: J. B. Sanford.

Sixth District-Butte, Yuba, Sutter, and Yolo: Marshall Diggs.
Eighth District-Sonoma: E. F. Woodward.

Tenth District-El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras, Alpine, and Mono: William C. Ralston.
Twelfth District-Tuolumne, Mariposa, Madera, Stanislaus, and Merced: J. B. Curtin.
Fourteenth District-Alameda: Joseph R. Knowland.

Sixteenth District-Alameda: Frank W. Leavitt.

Eighteenth District-San Francisco: Harry Bunkers.
Twentieth District-San Francisco: Frank French.

Twenty-second District-San Francisco: Hamilton A. Bauer.
Twenty-sixth District-Fresno: Chester Rowell.

Twenty-eighth District-Santa Clara: Charles M. Shortridge.
Thirty-second District-Kern, Tulare, and Kings: E. J. Emmons
Thirty-fourth District-Los Angeles: William H. Savage.
Thirty-sixth District-Los Angeles: Benjamin W. Hahn.
Thirty-eighth District-Los Angeles: Cornelius W. Pendleton.
Fortieth District-San Diego: M. L. Ward.

SENATORS-ELECT.

First District-Del Norte, Humboldt, Trinity, Tehama: Thomas H. Selvage.
Third District-Plumas, Sierra, Nevada, Placer: John B. Irish.

Fifth District-Napa, Solano: B. F. Rush.

Seventh District-Sacramento: James A. McKee.

Ninth District-Contra Costa, Marin: C. M. Belshaw.

Eleventh District-San Joaquin: A. E. Muenter.

Thirteenth District-Alameda: John G. Mattos, Jr.

Fourteenth District-Alameda (unexpired term of Joseph R. Knowland): M. W. Simp

son.

Fifteenth District-Alameda: G. R Lukens.

Seventeenth District-San Francisco: Frank A. Markey.
Nineteenth District-San Francisco: Richard J. Welch.
Twenty-first District-San Francisco: Edward I. Wolfe.

Twenty-third District-San Francisco: George B. Keane.

Twenty-fourth District-San Francisco (unexpired term of George H. Williams): Philip J. Haskins.

Twenty-fifth District-San Francisco: John H. Nelson.

Twenty-seventh District-Santa Clara: Eli Wright.

Twenty-ninth District-Santa Cruz, San Mateo: Samuel H. Rambo.

Thirtieth District-San Bernardino, Inyo (unexpired term of Orrin Z. Hubbell):
William T. Leeke.

Thirty-first District-Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo: Henry W. Lynch.
Thirty-third District-Santa Barbara, Ventura: C. B. Greenwell.

Thirty-fifth District-Los Angeles: Howard A. Broughton.

Thirty-seventh District-Los Angeles: Henry E. Carter.

Thirty-ninth District-Orange, Riverside: John N. Anderson.

Certificate and list of names read and ordered on file.

The President directed the Secretary to call the roll of the hold-over Senators.

ROLL CALL OF HOLD-OVER SENATORS.

The Secretary called the roll, and the following answered to their

names:

Senators Bauer, Bunkers, Coggins, Curtin, Diggs, Emmons, French, Hahn, Leavitt, Pendleton, Ralston, Sanford, Savage, Shortridge, Ward, and Woodward-16.

ROLL CALL OF SENATORS-ELECT.

The Secretary called the roll of Senators-elect, and the following answered to their names:

Senators Anderson, Belshaw, Broughton, Carter, Greenwell, Haskins, Irish, Keane, Leeke, Lukens, Lynch, Markey, Mattos, McKee, Muenter, Nelson, Rambo, Rush, Selvage, Simpson, Welch, Wolfe, and Wright-23.

The President thereupon announced that the roll call disclosed. twenty-three, the full number of Senators-elect present.

The President requested the Senators-elect to immediately present themselves at the bar of the Senate in order that the oath of office might be administered to them, and that they might subscribe to the same.