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2 SENATE JOURNAL.
closure of mortgages on real estate
and execution sales of real estate and
for postponing certain sales and for
extending the periods of redemption
from certain others, and relating to
the jurisdiction and procedure for
such relief and for the right to pos-
session during the extended period
and for limiting the right to main-
tain actions for deficiency judgment
and for extending the expiration of
certain periods of redemption by
moratorium provisions.
3. To consider and act on such
other subjects and questions as I, as
Governor, may from time to time
during said called session submit by
message or otherwise to the Legis-
lature.
The Secretary of State will hereby
take notice of this action and notify
the members of the Legislature.
Done at Austin, Texas, this twen-
ty-fifth day of January, A. D. 1934,
under the seal of the State properly
attested by the Secretary of State.
MIRAM A. FERGUSON,
Governor of Texas.
Attest:
W. W. HEATH,
Secretary of State.
The proclamation was read.
President Pro Tem.
The Chair recognized Senator
Parr who nominated Senator Rawl-
ings for President Pro Tem.
The nomination was seconded by
Senators Woodward, Purl and Sand-
erford.
The Chair appointed Senators
Parr, Woodward and Purl as tellers
to collect and tabulate the votes.
The tellers announced the follow-
ing results:
Senator Rawlings, 21 votes.
The Chair declared Senator Rawl-
ings duly elected President Pro Temrn
of the Senate for the Second Called
Session of the Forty-third Legisla-
ture.
Senate Simple Resolution No. 1.
Senator Redditt sent up the fol-
lowing caucus report:
Senate Chamber,
Austin, Texas, Jan. 29, 1934.
Hon. Edgar E. Witt, Lieutenant
Governor:
At a caucus held in the office of
the Senate attended by 21 membersof the Senate the following recom-
mendations were made, to-wit:
The following officers were
elected to serve for the ensuing Sec-
ond Called Session of the Forty-
third Legislature and at the salaries
set opposite their names:
Secretary of the Senate: Bob Bar-
ker, $10.00 per day.
Journal Clerk: Effie Wilson-
Waldron, $6.00 per day.
Assistant Journal Clerk: Melford
S. Dickerson, $4.50 per day.
Sergeant-at-Arms: A. W. Holt,
$6.00 per day.
Calendar Clerk: Mrs. Martha Tur-
ner, $6.00 per day.
Engrossing and Enrolling Clerk:
Miss Essie McGinnis, $6.00 per day.
Chaplain: Rev. W. H. Doss, $5.00
er day.
It is recommended that each Sen-
ator, Lieutenant Governor and the
Secretary of the Senate, be permitted
to name one secretary and such em-
ployee shall act as clerk of the com-
mittee of which the Senator naming
such employee shall be the chairman
thereof, such employee to receive
$5.00 per day.
It is further recommended that
each Senator and the Lieutenant
Governor and the Secretary of the
Senate be permitted to name one em-
ployee of the Senate in addition to
their private secretary; that the
names of such employees be referred
to a committee of five senators ap-
pointed by the chairman of the cau-
cus, said committee to be authorized
to ;elect from said employees all em-
ployees in the engrossing and enroll-
ing room and other departments of
the Senate and to assign said em-
ployees to their proper places of em-
ployment; said employees so named
by the Senators and the Lieutenant
Governor and the Secretary of the
Senate to receive the sum of $4.50
per day, if only one employee per-
forms the service. But if more than
one is so employed to fill one posi-
tion the salary shall be $5.00, to be
divided among the employees as rec-
ommended by the Senator naming
the employees.
It is further recommended that the
several appointments of employees
heretofore made by the Lieutenant
Governor and announced in the Sen-
ate and considered by the caucus, are
confirmed.
The salaries of the porters to be
$2.50 per day, except the head por-
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