The first business is the election of a Senator to fill the vacancy caused by the death of our late colleague, Senator Martin Fitzgerald. The following candidates are being proposed. I will read out their names in alphabetical order:—
Robert Andrew Anderson, whose qualifications are: "By his association with Sir Horace Plunkett in the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society he has done honour to the nation by his useful public service. By his special qualifications and attainments he represents one of the most important aspects of the nation's life."
Peter de Loughry, who was a former Senator.
Patrick Joseph Hooper, Journalist and Barrister, who had eighteen years' experience as a Parliamentary Journalist, who was editor of the "Freeman's Journal," 1916-24, and who was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1915.
Seán Milroy, who was a member of Dáil Eireann, 1921, to October, 1924, who is a writer on national, political and economic subjects, and has been an active worker in the national movement for thirty years.
We will now take the first ballot; each Senator may vote for one or two out of the four names. He need not vote for two, but he cannot vote for more than two. The first ballot will be taken on those four names. You will please put a cross opposite the candidate or candidates for whom you wish to vote.
This having been done.
