Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1882-09-14

At the last session of the 1.seisIa-
kure lie Trustees Of tbs Colleges
thinking that delicate females we're
entitled 70 he sane aaiskanco a.
stalwnrt young men. pstitieued ''the
board Of BsneSciaEiea In The Bnlti-
more Female College should q rid
a. il he three mals Colleges 81 Us
State. "A bill 70 that e&se. ~
infrodneed. and. without > word 81
opposition in either House. pamed
fhs House q Delegates 81 : vota 81
81 TO 16. and the Senate without
dissenting voice. The hill would lave
given free board 20 one pupil from
each county, il addition to free IN
struction And - by the Iawz u
1858, the several Orphans Eart
were required in appoius nents 81
scholarships 70 give prsfsreaes r. aaeh
applicants 90 we're presented ~ tie
School Commissioners after esEnp pet
tive examinaki0n. i would have
had The effect d Stimulating the
efforts both Of tsachAis and pupils eli
over the State. and given The poor
giFl Of talents en- equal chance Tor 8
good educetion. But our Governor.
with the feassnes Of IN Autocrat.
rather than Democrat. resolves to
ignore The action Of the two Legisla-
tive bodies, by pocket veto.
Though slsghSly indispossd. he
could easily have remained e An
napolis. and signed the balls passed
by the Legislatura, or rejecfsd them
ia 3 manly manner, aa any other
Governor would have done; but be
preferred taking recess Of two weeks,
and, in the interim, Speaker KeiI-
holtz i taken sick. and May Sd, we
have the strange scene Of the Govern
or and heads Of the Legislature, with
clerks and secretaries and other State
officials travelling between Annapolis
and Baltimore. forth and back, with
the bills lately passed. It was not
enough to exhibit this show once. it
was 70 Be repeated again. Nay 31st.
On the first occasion he promptly
signed the bill relieving gamblers
from the penalty Of imprisonment. the
only punishment they regarded. They
were known 10 be powerful political
auxiliaries, and their preyiEg upon
the community. and corrnpting the
young and inexperienced. was Of no
consideration. In consequences, gam
bling bells are now in full blast, as
you may have seen by the papers.
A bin for the inspection Of milk,
as in other cities, and against feeding
mich COWS with distillery swill, had
passed the Legislature, despite the
distillery lobby, but the Governor
comes to the rescue, asserts the rights
of cows to their whiskcy swill, and
refuses to sign the bill that had been
framed in the interest Of the public
in general. bnt especially Of nursing
mothers and their sick infants.-|
Whether private interest Influenced
the, Governors decision or not, we do
not know; we only know he owns
dairy farm If not distillery.
The three male Colleges had Sc
cured the board Of their 6ene6ciaries,
but the Governor does not sign the
bill for the board Of the bena6ciaries
in the female College which had done
the State greatservice. He signs. ow-
ever, the appropriation for the Home
of colored girls" Women Of Balti-
more and Maryland are your fair
daughters of less account than the
niggerlings Of the State? The meet
ing adjourned, thirty-two bills re-
naming unsigned, the Governor an
nouncing that mistakes were in some
Of them, and others required further
examination"
May 3lst, the Governor convened
again the Legislative officials, bring
ing seventeen bills with him, leaving
in Annapolis fifteen as positively We
toed. Among the seventeen was the |
milk bill, though it had been indorsed
mot approved" not, as is presumed,
that he had any idea Of signing it but |
ia deferance to public opinion, as a |
meeting Of citizens had been called |
in reference to the bill. The Govern
or signed ten of the seventeen bills, |
and then dissolved the meeting, say
ing, 'he wanted 10 hear further on |
the oyster bill and some others. ~
The trainers of our Constitution, in |
requiring all bills to be signed dur
ing the session of the Legislature, or |
Immediately after. did not foresee that
we should have q Governor 50 careful |
~ to require a further time for DELHI |
GRAFTON, after two months Of patient |
thought. But he did not intend to |
convene the Legislative officials again,
it was simply an unmanly subterfuge |
TO lesson public odium by delay
His Autocracy thus vetoed twenty
two bills. among them the Female |
College bill and that Of Western |
Maryland College. both of which had |
passed almost unanimously. What is |
the use of House Of Delegates and
Senate, when Governor can utterly |
ignore them? The Western Mary
land bill provided for tuition, the Fe- |
male College bill for board Of one pu-
pill from each Senatorial district Of |
the State. at the last session the
Governor had signed a bill for the
Western Maryland Of the same char
acter, for two years. But now he signs
neither bill for The following reason |
As i supposed:
Disappointed in his grasping for
power and patronage. BY the failure
Of bill to give him the appointment
Of School Commissioners in all the
counties. the Governor takes his re-
venge upon the Senator's and Dele
gates BY vetoeing the two College
bills in which each had local inter-
est. he expressed great regret that
the appropriation to st. Johnh's Coli
lege was in the general appropriation |
Bill. and thus prevented his vetoeing
il. He could thus have vented his /
snika on Senator Wells.