, 1899-01-25
c. D.CLARK.
JOINT SESSION RATIFIES VOTE OF
YESTERDAY IN SENATE
AND HOUSE.
Memorial Concerning Star Route Con-
Enthusiastically Afternoon SEES
sion Interesting--Debate on Tax on
Coal Output Gets Warm-Two
Patriotic Measures Endorsed.

Cheyenne, Jan. 25.-(Special 9TH,
house was called to order this mornin,
by Speaker Davis at 10 o'clock. Aftel
roll call and prayer by the chaplain tn.
journal of yesterday was approved
without amendment.
Bills were introduced as follows:
House bill No. So, by Roberts. TC
protect and legalize labor bodies agains
discrimination by their employers. Re,
ferred to committee on labor.
House bill No. IS, by Thorn. Tt
amend chapter 126 of the session law:
of 1895, relating to the organization O
the national guard. Referred to tht
committee on federal relations.
Senate file No. l, relating to the cleo.
ton of county commissioners. Reat
the first time and referred to the com
mittee on counties.
Committees reported as follows:
Committee on buildings and institu,
ti6ns reported house bill No. 81, per.
tanning to the soldiers and sailors
home, recommending that it do pass.
The committee on revenue reported
house bill No. A, relating TO the assess.
ment Of land and live stock, recon-,
mending that it do pass.
The house then resolved itself into
a committee of the whole, with Butler
of Albany in the chair, for the consid-
Grafton Of bills on the general file.
House bill No. 81, pertaining to the
Wyoming soldiers and sailors home,
was taken up and reported back with
the recommendation that it do pass.
House bill No. A, by Thorn, relating
to the assessment Of land and live
stock, and the collection and division
of taxes received theretrom, was re-
ported back for passage.
The committee then arose and re-
ported as above indicated, their report
being adopted unanimously.
The speaker here announced that he
was about to sign the resolution relat-
ing to the printing Of 1000 copies OF the
governors message.
At 11:20 the house stood in recess
subject to the call Of the chair. Recon-
vened at 11:55, and on motion of But.
Ter of Albany a committee of three was
appointed by the speaker to inform the
honorable senate that the house was
ready to meet in joint assembly to vote
for United States senator. Accordingly
Fourt, Lewis and Condit were appointed
on such committee. The senate ar
rived at the hall OF the house Of repre-
sentatives at ~ o'clock, noon Presi-
dent McGill called the joint assembly
% call the roll. The roll call disclosed
that all the members were present but
two-Calloway, senator, who is sick,
and Nagle of the house. The president
announced that the election of a United
States senator was now in order and
instructed the chief clerk to read the
result or enc vote taken yesterday In
the senate on the election Of a senator,
and this was followed by the same pro-
ceeding OF the part Of the chief clerk
of the house, who read the result of the
vote in the house yesterday. The pres
ident then announced that Clarence D.
Clark had received a majority Of the
votes cast and that accordingly he was
elected to the United States senate from
Wyoming for a period Of six years, be-
ginning March 4, 1899.
AT -: 10 the house took a recess un-
til 2 p. m.
IN THE SENATE.
Cheyenne, Jan. 25.-(Special. 1.-The