The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-02-29
PROCEEDINGS on THE MARYLAND LEGISLATURE
ANNAPOLIS, Feb. q, 1860.
SENATE.


MONDAY EVENING.
The Senate in session until late hour on the
bill regulating the mode of buying and selling
grain in the city of Baltimore. Numerous amend
ments were adopted and the bill finally passed by
vote OF ayes 10, nays z.
| The Tobacco Inspection Bill was also amended
but the Senate adjourned without coming to vot
on its passage.
Feb. 2s-The PRESIDENT announced that
sage from the House was first in order and would
be read. The G ERIK proceeded to read the bills,
when the hour arrived for taking up the first order
of the day, being the bill entitled an Act to Amend
the Act of 1926, chap 1913, entitled an Act tc IN
| corporate the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad COmpa-
| nv, when on motion the order of the day was pest
poned until two o'clock.
! Mr.. YELLoT presented petitions from Hugh Boil
ton and many other business firms in Baltimore,
asking that the private stockholders direction in
! the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad be increased.
! Mr.. WATKINS presented memorials from sundry
citizens of Howard county, asking that the private
stockholders direction in the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad be increased. All of said petitions and
memorials were referred.
Mr.. LYNCH offered resolution proposing to ap
propriate the of five hundred dollars, out of
the Colonization fund, to transport Henry Winter
Davis to Liberia.
The introduction of the resolution created some
sensation in the Senate, when Mr. Lynch withdrew
the resolution by unanimous consent of the Senate.
The hour arrived for taking up the order of the
day when Mr.. Y eliot was speaking, when this re-
port closed at twenty minutes past two.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
ANNAPOLIS, February 27th.-The House met at
3T o'clock, and occupied the afternoon in passing
bills appropriating small sums of money for the re-
lief of various parties.
NIGHT SESSION.
The House met at IA O'clock and the fol-
lowing business was transacted-A act to
incorporate the Baltimore Union Works, for the
manufacture of machinery and all manner of iron
artice-the capital stock not to exceed $500, 900,
and shall be divided into equal shares of 500 each.
An act to amend, and supplementary to act in
cooperating the Maryland and Delaware Railroad
| Company, so as to allow them to construct tee-
graph line or lines along the route of the said
road. House bill, authorizing the removal of
causes from the Courts of Baltimore City, provid
ing that they may be removed to Anne Arundel,
Howard or Hartford counties was called up.
| Mr.. Ford, OF Baltimore county, moved to strike
out the enacting clause alleging, a reason that
| it was unconstitutional, because it was expressly
declared that all cases should be removed only to
! the adjoining countless and it was impossible to
make the counties adjoining, when their geographi-
cal position precludes such an idea.
| Mr.. KRAFT replied to the gentleman from Balti-
more county. He thought there misunder
standing. The Constitution expressly provides that
the Legislature may extend the limits for removing
cases, but not narrow them.
| Mr.. FoRD withdrew his motion, and offered in
stead an amendment providing that the removed
| cases could be transferred to any county in the
| State.
The motion was lost, and the question soon after
recurring upon the passage of the bill, it was
passed
February 2s.-The following petitions were pre-
scented:
By Mr.. Denison, of Baltimore, petition of So
citizens of Baltimore, complaining that the JUS
tees of the peace in the several wards of the city
of Baltimore do not keep open their offices in their
own wards. Referred to Committee Judiciary.
By Mr.. Stake, the petition of a number of citizens
in W ashngtoN county, against the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad. Referred to the Special Commit
tee. By Mr.. Wilson, of Hartford, the petition of
number of citizens of Hartford in relation to free
negroes By Mr.. Turner, of Baltimore, petition of
500 citizens of Baltimore, against the future
mission of slaves. Both referred to Committee
Colored Population. By Mr.. McCleary, petition
of citizens of Cumberland prohibiting the sale of
fresh meat in other places than the market.
THE BROCK PETITIONS.
The foil owing petitions were presented in favor
| of the Brock railway:
By Mr.. Renshaw, the petition of L. W. Gosnell
charter. By Mr.. Miller, six petitions, numerously
signed, for the same purpose. By Mr.. Bayless,
petition in favor of the Brock company. BY Mr..
Wilson, OF Cecil, petition to the same end. BY
Messrs. Seth and GOrsuch, petitions numerouslv
signed in favor of the same parties-al of which
were referred to the Committee on Corporations
On motion Of Mr.. MILLER, it was ordered that
the Committee on Claims be authorized to pay Col.
j. B. Brook the amount due Robert Bowie, late
Committee Clerk of this House.
Mr. NALL, OF Frederick county, offered preamble
and resolutions, recommending the establishment
of an Agricultural Bureau or Department at Wash
ington, recommending the same to members of Con-
gress, and authorizing the Governor to transmit
copy of the resolutions to the Representatives of the
people in the United States Congress
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES
BY Mr.. Worthington, from the Committee on Ju-
dietary House bill to make valid bill of sale from
Thomas Herbert to William Chapman. of Baltimore
county; rules suspended and bill passed. By Mr..
Mackubbin of Committee on Claims, house bill to
refund to Henry 4. Scott, monies overpad into the
Treasury as Administrator. Also House bill to ap
propriate sum of money to Joseph NJ. Edwards,
for services rendered the State patrol.
By MIR. maxwell, acting chairman of Commit
tee on Corporations, bill to authorize the Com
missioners Of the village of Port Opposite to pave
| their streets. Rules suspended, and bill passed.
Mr. GoLDsBoRoRGH, of the Committee on Cor
porations, reported favoraby on the following
bills:
A bill to close road in Caroline; Senate bill
to incorporate the Mspillion and Choptank Rail
road; bill to incoTpo ate company to make seve-
raj turnpike roads in Baltimore county; to lay
down tracks of a passenger railroad from Balt-
more to Towsontown; a bill to extend the powers
of the corporation of Annapolis, and to incorpo-
rate the ElIicott's Mills Gas Light Company.
THE REPORT ON PASSENGER RAILROAD.
Mr.. GoLDsBOaouGH submitted the majority report
| of the Committee on Corporations upon the evil
dence in the charges in the Brock City Passenger
Railroad Company, declaring that there had been
no fraud proved, which read and ordered to
be printed. For report and debate see else
where!
Mr.. TURNER presented the minority report OF the
same Committee which will be found elsewhere,
with the debate on the motion to make it the order
of the day for Tuesday next, which finally
| agreed upon.
Mr.. SETH made report from the Special Com
mittee on the question of discrimination the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, concluding with the
following order:
Ordered, That the Special Committee appointed
to inquire into certain charges made by James K.
Tyson against the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Company be and the same are hereby discharged
from the further consideration of the subject.
Mr.. FREANER, from Select Committee, reported
the three bills referred to them yesterday-lst, for
the trial of defauting District Attorneys; 3D.
quiring District Attorneys to give bond, and Sd,
the bill requiring all officers of the State, who re-
ceive public moneys, to comply with the provisions
OF the Constitution, by keeping book, to be re-
turned to the Treasurer annually.
Mr., WooTTEN asked suspension of the rules, to
take up the bill allowing the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad to subscribe to the capital stock of the
Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company. Read
three times and passed.
Mr.. FREANER called up the bill appropriating
S. 900 to the Home of the Friendless of Baltimore
city.
A motion was made to reduce the sum to 81, 900.
warm debate sprung up on the subject, when
Mr.. De ison explained to the House the high char
acter of the Institution
Mr.. MCALLIsTER moved an amendment to the
amendment, that $4,000 should be appropriated.
MT. DENSlsoN, OF Baltimore county, spoke elO-
quently in favor of the bill, showing that it was
not local charity, but that its doors were open,
and its charity bestowed more the destitute from
the counties than from the city.
The amendment of Mr.. McAlister was with
drawn, and the question was taken on the motion
to strike out SIS, 900 and insert 81, 900.
Mr.. LANDING called the yeas and nays, and the
motion to strike out lost.
Mr.. CHAPLAIN moved to amend by giving author
ity to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore to
appropriate $4,000 to its relief. Motion lost
The bill was passed by yeas 40, nays Is.
Mr.. GoLDsBoRouGH submitted the report of the
committee appointed to examine into the condition
of the Maryland Penitentiary. The report was
partly read and 1000 copies ordered to be printed
Several unimportant local bills called up
and passed.
GAMBLING IN LoUIsIANA.-If the vice of gambling
can be restrained by legal enactments, law now
pending action before the Louisiana Assembly will
certainly accomplish the object. The first, second
third and fifth sections of it are in substance, as
follows:
The Auditor of Public Accounts and the Treasu-
Of the State shall issua 20