Senate Committee on Highway Department Investigation, Committee of the Whole Senate - 43rd R.S. (1933)

Committee Members
Charles Clinton Small, Chair John W.E.H. Beck Elmore J. Blackert Wilbourne Bailey Collie William Roy Cousins Thomas Arthur DeBerry Arthur Pope Duggan Ernest Fellbaum Julian Preston Greer Thomas Jefferson Holbrook Welly Kennon Hopkins John William Hornsby William Marvin Martin Joseph M. Moore Cecil Murphy Margie E. Neal	Benjamin Grady Oneal William Dent Pace Archie Parr Nat Patton William Robert Poage George Clark Purl Frank Hill Rawlings John Sayers Redditt Kenneth Mills Regan Gus Russek Roy Sanderford Albert Stone Grady Woodruff Walter Frank Woodul Walter Calisto Woodward
Charges
Senate will resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole for the purpose of inquiring into certain other charges made by the Governor of the state with respect to the management and expenditures of certain sums of money belonging to the State Highway Fund.
Note: Governor sent letter dated 2/13/1933 to Senate describing situation with Highway Department Fund and the Security Trust Company and followed letter with further documentation on 2/15/1933. SR 46 by Woodruff directed Senate to convene as Committee of the Whole. Senate first convened a Subcommittee on Rules of Procedure to set process for Senate convening as Committee of the Whole. Within adopted Subcommittee report, the Lieutenant Governor was directed to name a chair for the Committee as a Whole proceeding and that chair would name four senators to serve as a Board of Managers to advise chair during proceedings. No record in journal of chair or committee named. Sen. Hopkins resignation found at p. 274 and is addressed to Sen. Small as chair. Within proceedings, the members of the Board of Managers were determined, but reservations remain as to the accuracy of the members listed.

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