Journal of the Senate of Texas being the Second Called Session of the Forty-Third Legislature Page: 47
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SENATE JOURNAL. 47
pursuant to recess, at 2 o'clock p. m.,
by Lieutenant Governor Edgar E.
Witt.
At Ease.
On motion of Senator Russek, the
Senate, at 2:05 p. m., stood at ease
for the purpose of completing the
committee hearing on the Child La-
bor Amendment, until 2:42 p. m.
In Session.
The Senate was called to order at
2:43 p. m., by Lieutenant Governor
Edgar E. Witt.
House Bill No. 6.
The question recurred on the adop-
tion of the Duggan amendment.
The amendment was adopted.
Senator Redditt sent up the fol-
lowing amendment:
Amend Oneal Substitute for H. B.
No. 6, by adding thereto the follow-
ing section, to be known as Section
5-a.
Sec. 5-a. Any person who shall di-
rectly or indirectly enter into any
agreement with a commissioners'
court of any county in the State of
Texas, or any officer or agent of said
court or county, that he will register
or cause to be registered any motor
vehicle, trailer or semi-trailer, in
said county in consideration of the
use by said county of the funds de-
rived from said registration in the
purchase of any property of any kind
or character, or in consideration of
anything or any act to be done or
performed by the commissioners'
court, or any of its agents or officers
or any county officer, shall be guilty
of a bribery and shall be subject to
the same penalty as provided by law
for the offense of bribery. The regis-
tration of each separate vehicle shall
constitute a separate offense. The
agreement and/or conspiracy to reg-
ister shall constitute a separate of-
fense. Any person, firm or corpora-
tion who shall make agreements as
provided herein, or seek to make
such agreements, shall be restrained
by injunction by the county or dis-
trict attorney of the county in which
said motor vehicle is registered, or
upon application of the Attorney
General of the State of Texas.
The amendment was adopted.
Senator Rawlings sent up the fol-
lowing amendment:"Amend the caption of H. B. No. 6
to conform to the body of the bill."
The amendment was adopted.
The bill was read second time and
passed to third reading.
On motion of Senator Oneal, the
constitutional rule requiring bills to
be read on three several days was
suspended and H. B. No. 6 was put
on its third reading and final passage
by the following vote:
Yeas-29.Beck.
Blackert.
Collie.
Cousins.
DeBerry.
Duggan.
Greer.
Holbrook.
Hopkins.
Hornsby.
Martin.
Moore.
Murphy.
Neal.
Oneal.Pace.
Parr.
Patton.
Poage.
Purl.
Rawlings.
Redditt.
Regan.
Russek.
Sanderford.
Small.
Woodruff.
Woodul.
Woodward.Absent-Excused.
Fellbaum.
Stone.
Read third time and finally passed
by the following vote:
Yeas-2 2.Blackert.
Collie.
Cousins.
DeBerry.
Duggan.
Hopkins.
Hornsby.
Martin.
Moore.
Neal.
Poage.
Greer.
Holbrook.
Murphy.Beck.
Purl.
Oneal.
Rawlings.
Redditt.
Regan.
Russek.
Sanderford.
Small.
Woodruff.
Woodul.
Woodward.
Nays-5.
Pace.
Patton.Absent.
Parr.
Absent-Excused.Fellbaum.
Stone.
Reason for Vote.
I voted "No" on this bill for the
reason that it reduced the registra-47
SENATE JOURNAL.
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