May PA Senate Journals

Not much happened in May. The Pennsylvania State Senate met for 3 days and one of those, May 2nd, was devoted primarily to memories of and testimonials to the life of Sen. Robert Thompson. The prayer on that day, by the pastor of Sen. Thompson’s church was beautifully written.

If you look at the May 2nd journal, there is an interesting story about Sen. Thompson and a governor (there was more than one governor during Thompson’s term and the name of the governor isn’t given) on page 7 of the pdf, page 1587 of the printed volume. On page 9 (1589 of the printed volume), Sen. Tomlinson explains why he is wearing a tie with horses’ backsides on it (not necessarily the reason you might think).