Journal of the Senate of Texas being the Third Called Session of the Forty-Second Legislature Page: 21
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SENATE JOURNAL. 21
Congress, and that said amendment
shall take effect on the 15th day of
October following its ratification;
and providing further that this ar-
ticle shall be inoperative unless it
shall have been ratified as an amend-
ment to the Constitution within
seven years from the date of submis-
sion to the states by Congress.
Respectfully submitted,
LOUISE SNOW PHINNEY,
Chief Clerk, House of Representatives.
S. C. R. No. 4.
Senator Holbrook sent up the fol-
lowing resolution:
Whereas, On August 13, 1932, a
hurricane of great intensity and
force swept the entire borders of
Fort Bend, Wharton, and Brazoria
counties; and,
Whereas, It has become necessary
for the Red Cross, National Guard
and other organizations to engage in
relief work in said territory and to
give said relief it is necessary to
have trucks and automobiles to
transport supplies to various points
in said counties.
Whereas, the State Highway De-
partment has several such trucks and
automobiles in said district which
are not in immediate use and which
would be of value in transporting
said supplies.
Therefore, Be It Resolved, by the
Senate, the House of Representatives
concurring, that the State Highway
Department be ordered and instruct-
ed to loan one of its trucks and one
of its automobiles to Major D. S.
Wood of the National Guard in
charge of relief operations in the
hurricane area for said counties.
Said trucks to be used as long as
necessary to relieve the intense need
HOLBROOK.
Read and adopted.
Bills Referred.
H. J. R. No. 1 referred to Com-
mittee on Constitutional Amend-
ments.
H. B. No. 1 referred to Committee
on Finance.
S. J. R. No. 1.
The Chair laid before the Senate
on its second reading the following
resolution:By Senator Hornsby:
S. J. R. No. 1, A joint resolution
"Ratifying an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States of
America passed by the Seventy-
second Congress of the United States
of America, at its First Session,
which amendment fixes the com-
mencement of the terms of Presi-
dent and Vice-President and mem-
bers of Congress and fixing the time
of the assembling of Congress and
providing that this article shall be
inoperative unless it shall have been
ratified as an amendment to the Con-
stitution within seven years from
the date of its submission to the
states by Congress."
The resolution was read second
time and passed to engrossment.
On motion of Senator Hornsby
the constitutional rule requiring bills
to be read on three several days was
suspended and S. J. R. No. 1 was
put on its third reading and final
passage, by the following vote:
Yeas-28.Beck.
Berkeley.
Cousins.
Cunningham.
DeBerry.
Gainer.
Hardin.
Holbrook.
Hornsby.
Loy.
Martin.
Moore.
Neal.
Oneal.Parr.
Parrish.
Patton.
Poage.
Purl.
Rawlings.
Russek.
Small.
Stevenson.
Thomason.
Williamson.
Woodruff.
Woodul.
Woodward.Absent-Excused.
Greer.
Hopkins.Pollard.
Read third time and finally passed
by the following vote:
Yeas -29.Beck.
Berkeley.
Cousins.
Cunningham.
DeBerry.
Gainer.
Hardin.
Holbrook.
Hornsby.
Loy.
Martin.Moore.
Neal.
Oneal.
Parr.
Parrish.
Patton.
Poage.
Pollard.
Purl.
Rawlings.
Russek.21
SENATE JOURNAL.
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