Journal of the Senate of Texas being the Third Called Session of the Forty-Second Legislature Page: 8
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8 SENATE JOURNAL.
MOORE,
NEAL,
ONEAL,
PARR,
PARRISH,
PATTON,
POAGE,
POLLARD,
PURL,RAWLINGS,
RUSSEK,
SMALL,
STEVENSON,
THOMASON,
WILLIAMSON,
WOODRUFF,
WOODUL,
WOODWARD.Read and adopted by a rising vote
on motion of Senator Parr.
S. C. R. No. 2.
Senator Poage sent up the follow-
ing resolution:
Be It Resolved by the Senate of
Texas, the House of Representatives
concurring, that the pay of the mem-
bers of the Third Called Session of
the Forty-second Legislature is
hereby fixed at eight dollars per
diem; provided, however, that no
member shall draw such sum for
any day when such member is ab-
sent for any reason other than per-
sonal illness, or on account of death
or illness in his immediate family,
or in the performance of some duty
imposed upon them by resolution of
one or both of the Houses of this
Legislature; but, on such days as
any member may be absent for any
other than the above reasons, his
pay shall be one dollar per day and
no more.
Be It Further Resolved that in ad-
dition to the per diem the members
of each House shall be entitled to
mileage for going to and return from
seat of Government, which mileage
shall be two dollars and fifty cents
for every twenty-five miles, the dis-
tance to be computed by the nearest
or most direct line of travel, from
a table of distance heretofore pre-
pared by the Comptroller to each
county seat.
POAGE,
DeBERRY,
CUNNING HAM,
ONEAL.
The resolution was read.
Senator Woodward sent up the
following amendment:
Amend the resolution by striking
out the words and figures $8.00 per
diem and add in lieu thereof the
words and figures $5.00 per diem.
WOODWARD,
RAWLINGS,
HOLBROOK.
Read and adopted by the following
vote:Yeas-18.
Berkeley. Poage.
Cousins. Pollard.
Cunningham. Purl.
DeBerry. Rawlings.
Hardin. Russek.
Holbrook. Stevenson.
Moore. Williamson.
Oneal. Woodruff.
Hornsby. Woodward.
Nays-9.Gainer.
Greer.
Hopkins.
Martin.
Parr.Loy.
Beck.Parrish.
Patton.
Thomason.
Woodul.Absent.
Small.
Absent-Excused.
Neal.Senator Williamson sent up the
following amendment:
Amend the amendment to the res-
olution by striking out the figure
"85" and inserting in lieu thereof
the word "gratis."
WILLIAMSON.
The amendment was read.
Senator DeBerry moved to table
the amendment. The motion was
lost by the following vote:
Yeas-12.Berkeley.
Cousins.
Cunningham.
DeBerry.
Greer.
Holbrook.Gainer.
Hardin.
Hopkins.
Hornsby.
Martin.
Moore.
Parr.
Patton.Loy.
Beck.
Oneal.
Parrish.
Poage.
Rawlings.
Woodruff.
Woodward.Nays-15.
Pollard.
Purl.
Russek.
Stevenson.
Thomason.
Williamson.
Woodul.
Absent.
Small.
Absent-Excused.
Neal.
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