The Thirty-First Annual Session of the Legislature of the State
Wisconsin, began at Madison, the capital of said state, the second
Wednesday, being the 9th day of January, 1878.

Pursuant to law, at 12 o'clock M. of said day, the Senate was
called to order by Hon. James M. Bingham, the Lieutenant-Gov-

ernor.

The roll of Senators holding over from 1877, and of the Senators
elect, as transmitted to the Senate by Hon. Hans B. Warner, Sec-
retary of State, was read by the clerk as follows: