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MARYLAND LEGISLATURE.

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MARYLAND LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.
WEDNESDAY, April 1.-The Senate
met at 1890. Twenty-four Senators
answered roll-call.
The bill appropriating $4,000 to the
University of Maryland to build a hos
pital, was taken up, put on its passage
and lost for want of constitutional
majority-yeas 13, nays-9.
The bill was afterwards reconsidered
and passed-yeas Is, nays-S.
House bill to amend section s, article
4. of the Constitution, relating to the
removal of criminal cases, and leaving
the question of removal to the discre-
ton of the court, except in trials for
murder, was passed, three-ffths of all
the Senators having voted therefor.
The Revenue bill was read through.
Amendments were adopted increasing
the collateral inheritance tax to two
and a-half cents on each one hundred
dollars, and the school tax to twelve
cents on each one hundred dollars
The vote was taken on the passage, and
the bill lost for want of a constitutional
majority, as follows: Yeas-Messrs.
Carroll, Aydelotte, Blake, Brewer,
Crawford, Fields, Mudd, Phelps, Ste
vens, Suitand Tuck-11 ;nays-Messrs.
Claggett, Earle, Longwell, Lloyd, Nc
Culloh and Steiner-6.
The vote was reconsidered and the
bill made the special order for to-mor
row at IL o'clock.
At the evening session, Mr.. Earle's
bill, subjecting to fine or imprisonment
any collector or custodian of public
money who shall accept or receive COM
pensation from any bank or corpora
ton for depositing public money there
in, was engrossed.
The following Senate bills were pass
ed: Regulating shad and herring fish
ing in the Patuxent river; appropriate
ing 81, 900 per annum for five years to
Charlotte Hall School; to promote the
increase and growth of fish and terra
pins in the waters of the State.
The following House bills were pass
ed: incorporating the City Bank of
Baltimore; appropriating $4,000 to
the House of Reformation and Instruc-
ton for Colored Children i'll Prince
Georges county, to incorporate the
Chesapeake immigration, Land and
1nIesvenent Company of Maryland.
This known as Judge Magrnder's
1IlI, i1zId ffUIn It's v0funliiious pr0vis-
ions has heretofore been used to ad
journ the Senate.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Watkins, representing a major
of the Ways and Means committee, re-
ported this morning upon the commu-
nication from Comptroller Woolford in
regard to the appropriation to him for
revising the Revenue Laws, and stated
that the majority of the committee ad-
here to their former position that the
State is indebted to him for the valua-
BILE services in compiling the law, but
at his request they ask the withdraw
al of the appropriation, and upon their
own responsibility, recommend thel
next Legislature to pay him.
Mr.. Koons presented minority re-
port dissenting g generally from the ma
jority.
A motion Of Mr.. Brace to lay the ma
jority report on the table was adopted
by 81 yeas, 36 nays.
House bill amending the charter of
the Baltimore and Potomac Railaoad
Company was called up as the first
order.
DR.. Henkle claimed that the provis-
ion of the bill were unjust in that it
compels the Company not to charge
more than ten cents toll, through a
tunnel that cost the Company fully $2,-
100000. The Company acting in good
faith upon the privileges granted by
the State in the charter, expended
this large sum money for the two miles
of road through the tunnel-a sum ad-
equate to build about eighty miles of
an ordinary road, the transportation
over which would cost ten times as
much as restricted to be charged by
this bill. Not only this injustice
should defeat the bill, but We must re-
member that the contemplated legisla-
tion is the impairment Of a contract in
the face of the constitutional inhibi-
tion, and cannot therefore stand.
Mr.. Gill said the original charter
has a loop-hole in it through which a
buses have grown, and the present bill
remedies this defect.
Mr.. Keech thought the bill should
pass.
Mr.. Robey said that the charges, to
his personal knowledge, of the Balti-
more and Potomac Railroad, were ex-
orbitant and excessive, and need some
legal restraint, and he hoped the bill
would pass.
Many other members discussed the
bill pro and con, after which the bill
was passed by SO yeas, nays.
The bill to provide for the passage
of locomotives, cars, passengers and
freights over connecting railroads in
the State was also passed by yeas and
nays, debate having been cut off by a
call for the previous question.
THURSDAY, April 2.-The Senate
at 1870. Prayer by Rev. Mr.. Kinzer.
Seventeen Senators answered roll-call.
The President laid before the SEN