The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-03-07
PROCEEDINGS OP THE MARYLAND LEGISLATURE
ANNAPOLIS. March 6, 1860.

The hour OF eleven O'Clock arrived, when the act
concerning the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Compa-
ny was taken up, it being made the order of the
day for that hour.
Mr.. MoKAIG asked call of the Senate
Pending the call, Mr.. GsLDsBoRoUGH, of Talbot
from Committee on Finance, reported an act ap-
propriating sum of money for the payment of the
claims of s. s. Dawson and Charles H. Marn, Pre-
sldent OF the Baltimore and Susquehanna Steam
Company.
Also, an act in relation to the debt due to the
State from the Tidewater Canal Company and the
Susquehanna Canal Company.
Proceedings under the call were suspended, and
the question was then taken on the passage of the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal BILL when it was passed
by n vote of IL to Z.
The bill entitled act to amend the Goth section
of the AID article of the Code of Public General
Laws, which provides for ordering out the militia
IN case of rebellion, &C., &C., to exempt the
city of Baltimore from the provisions of the said
section was taken up. The bill, after much dis
cussion, was postponed, and made the order of the
day for tomorrow at eleven o'clock.
bill to provide for the publication of the Public
Local Laws in the counties and city of Baltimore
was taken up, and was being considered when the
hour arrived for taking up the next order of the
day, being the act providing for disposing of the
State Tobacco Warehouses, and for the building of
a new Tobacco Warehouse, or Warehouses, on deep
water. The bill was considered and passed-yeas
Ii; nays C.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
After the reading of the. journal. Mr.. Lone,
from the COMMITTEES of WAYS and Means asked
a suspension of the rules to enable him to call
up certain revenue bills reported by that Commit
tee.
Mr.: BRIsCoE, from the Committee on Education,
Calvert county,
Mr' bRlScoE, from the Committee on Claims re-
ported TWO bills for the compensation of Milton
"hltney ana EzeRie F. Chambers for services in
arguing cases, by appointment of the Governor, in
the Court of Appeals
The motion OF Mr. LONG to suspend the rules,
so as to take up the revenue bills was then adopt.
ed.
The CHAIRMAN asked leave to present q ,ramori-
al or subscription list for stock in the three cent
Baltimore Passenger Railway. The amount of
stock subscribed on this list, by prominent mer
chants, business men and capitalists, reaches the
sum of S673,375.
called up his series of appropriation bills and bills
to regulate the levy of State Taxes The first o
the series being a bill to impose tax upon the
salaries Of the civil officers OF theState.
The bill provides that when the commissions
are delivered to them, the following officers shal
be taxed: the Sheriff of Baltimore city $500; She
riff of Baltimore county, Frederick county anC
Washington county Sl00 each; the Sheriff of ALE
gany S75; the Sheriffs of Carroll county Hartford
Kent, Dorchester, Anne Arundel Worcester So
merset and Cecil each S4O the Sheriffs of Prince
Georges county and Howard county $50 each; the
Sheriffs of Caroline county, Nor gomery, Talbot
Charles Queen Anne's, Calvert and st. Mary,
county, each $50. Each Register of Wills in the
phans' Court of Baltimore city $50; and each Judge
of the Orphans Court in the counties $40.
10 the latter provision great objection was made
1t was urged that some of the Judges did not re
ceive each year more than the tax.
The remaining officers to pay taxes on receiving
their commissions from the Governor, are follows
Flour Inspectors in Baltimore city S400 all other
inspectors $50 each; Notaries Public of Baltimore
$50 each, and in the counties Sc.
Mr.. Mccoy offered an amendment to exempt the
Judges Of the Orphans Court of Hartford county
from the tax of $40 per annum to be imposed bv
the bill upon them, and all other Judges of that
county. The amendment was lost, as also was ar
amendment offered by Mr.. Turner, of Howard tC
exempt his county. To the section providing thai
tax of $50 shall be imposed upon the clerks of the
Circuit Courts of all the counties and the Superior
Court of Baltimore city, upon taking the oath Of
office,
Mr.. BRIsSoE offered amendment to the effect
that when the oath of office was so taken the clerks
of all the Circuit Courts in the State be taxed $50
that the clerk of the Court of Appeals the clerk of
the Superior Court of Baltimore city, the clerk of
the Baltimore Court of Common Pleas, and the
clerk of the Criminal Court of Baltimore be each
taxed S75. The amendment was adopted the rules
suspended, and the bill passed.
Mr. GORDON, of Allegany, rose to personal ex-
PLANTATION. He reported in the ''Sua' of this
morning, as having said in his argument in the
behind the screen" He was not in the habit OF
using such language and thought he did not so ex-
press himself on the occasion.
Mr. LoNG, of Somerset, obtained reconsidera-
tion of the vote by which bill to impose tax o
fifty cents upon plaintiffs in chancery suits was
lost some days ago. The bill was then read and
lost-ayes %, nays 81
LIQUOR LICENSE LAW.
The bill to regulate the licensing of oyster and
eating houses in Baltimore city, and to regulate
the rates for licenses to liquor traders, was called
up by Mr.. Lone, Of Somerset, who stated that the
details Of the bill had been perfected in the Com
mittec room; visits had been made to the Comp
trolier and his aid called in to perfect the bill. 1t
was graduated so that the largest revenue would
accrue to the State and be less burdensome upon
all taxpayers than has been the case for wears past
The action of the last Legislature had looked upon
the ordnaries. drinking and eating houses nuis-
ances They had legisated against these places;
had imposed heavy licenses upon them. They were
all regarded as evils which should be put down by
legislation. Now, it is acknowledged that the
evil of drinking cannot be put down by legis-
lation. In attempting it we only make things
worse. If the State desires a revenue from eating
and drinking houses she must cease to look upon
them as evils and to egislate much in their ia
vor as possible put the rates of license so high
that men are driven to commit fraud and evade the
law-continuing all the time to do as large a
business if they had license BY the bad legisIa-
ton in '5S the door opened to fraud and about
$4,000 lost to the State. In the bill proposed this
league men will come in and pay their licenses
which they would not otherwise do.
Mr.. Ford concurred in the statements of Mr..
Long. lie had received large number of peti-
tions, signed by respectable citizens of Baltimore,
asking reduction in the rates of charges. He
thought it would be most beneficial to the State.
AS it now is, the law charging high rates caused
many to evade the law and it best to repeal it.
The bill has been carefully drawn. The expert.
ence OF the past has been considered and the
ures proposed met with the universal appreciation
of the Committee on Ways and Means, as we'll as
the approval of the Comptroller.
Mr.. MAXWELL said that he represented a constit-
uency divided upon this subject. Some of them
went in for free liquOrs-otherS did not. As, how
ever, he wished free liquor himself, and thought
the most of his constituents of the opin-
ion, but could come to having it free
than get light license law, he therefore asked to
be excused from voting
The bill was then put upon its third reading and
passed by ayes 80, nays Is.
THE PASSENGER RAILWAY.
Mr.. GoLDsBoRoUGH, of Caroline, called for the or
der of the day-the Baltimore City Passenger
Railway-cOmmonly called the Brock BILL This
bill, he said, had hung upon the House as an incu-
bus, through which there was neither ingress
egress. He thought it was made the order of
the day we should not put off at the last moment.
He hoped gentlemen would boldly stand up to the
measurement to shrink at this moment from its
contemplation
Mr.. JACOBS claimed that the Free Negro bill was
the first order of the day, and claimed the atten-
tinn Of the House before any other The Brock
bill was not of any general importance. 1t affected
only one city, whereas the negro bill affected the
entire State. He therefore moved as test vote to
60 into a Committee of the Whole and finish a con-
sideration of the Negro bill
Mr. FREANER supported the motion. He stated
that the Brock bill was a Senate bill. The Negro
bill has not gone through the House. 1t has rested
here for weeks upon weeks. The whole State
looked for action in the matter. If we want to do
anything in the premises, we had better be about
it now. If gentlemen disposed to shirk the
matter, let them say so by their votes.
Mr.. LEGG called on the Legislature to consider
the bill. In duty bound we are required to take
action in the matter We have had this subject
before often and have taken no final action
on it that it had become necessary to do some
thing Instead of that, we have had a Democrat
ic Legislature, whose vitality rests on the negro
question, bestOwing all its time upon Baltimore
city, when other matters equally important were
before us.
Mr.. GoLDsBoREUGH replied to Mr.. Legg. He
wished to facilitate business; wished to obey all
orders of the House. When an order was passed to
do such thing on certain day, he wished to see
it done, and therefore called for the Railway BILL
He was surprised to hear the gentleman from Queen
Anne's refuse to legslate for Baltimore citv sorry
tc hear him accuse the Democratic party of egisa-
ting too much for but for this sentence in the gen.
tleman's speech he would not have replied to him.
But in order that end would be put to the discus
sion, get rid of this noxious odOr of the negro and
Danish it forever from this House he would vote for
the motion of Mr.. Jacobs.
Mr. JAcoBs.-I will tell the gentleman, who is
usually very gallant and polite, that this negro
odor, of which he complains, extends from the
Gulf of Mexico to Maine, and if he wishes to get
away from it he must go out of the Union. Laugh
ter and applause. We have set here day after day
and postponed this matter time and again. vet have
q no conclusion. He thOunht the hill of Mr.