The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-03-29


shall take effect on the first day of July, 1884.
The bill to permit the County Commissioners Of
Baltimore county to lay out and open public roads
in the 18th district south of the Washington road,
in said district, within two miles of Baltimore
city, was passed in the House Tuesday night.
Hon. Joshua II. Cockey has been appointed
upon the Governors staff with the rank of Colonel
This is well deserved compliment to worthy
representative of our county.
The Senate has passed a resolution for the ap-
pointment of a commission OF three lawyers 10
codify, revise and simplify the criminal laws OF
the State.
The Senate this week has had a fierce discus
sion over the mlitia--our "sojer" boys-brought
up by the bill Co increase the salary of the AdJu-
tant General. Mr.. Brace referred to the State
militia as "toy soldiers" and said that If Balt-
more regiments had come up in Allegany during
ing the riots they would have had to fly like chan
before the wind. He added that the proposed in
crease was intended as an addition to the corrup-
ton fund of Baltimore city. He said he had 1t
from good authority that the government of the
United States had annually given to the State
81 500 worth of arms and equipments, which had
been sold and the money used and appropriated
to the use of the Adjutant General 1t was high
time, he said, to stop this stealing.
Mr.. Plowman, of Hartford county, has got through
his fagman bill at railroad crossings but will lose
his duck law and ld-fowl bill.
The Jerusalem turnpike charter forfeiture bill
is through the Senate and ought to be pushed
straight through the House. Which done we shall
once more believe that Providence has taken COM
passion upon us.
The law to tax mortgages has passed the Senate.
This bill specifies that the amount of mortgage
shall be deducted out of the value of the land
This, to me, is whipping the devil around the
stump to find him in your own house at last, be-
cause as the tax is on the land, to deduct the
mortgage out of this amounts to but little, as the
mortgage party will be required to pay all the ex-
tras or go without the needed money. We really
have some bright political economists in these
DAYS. This bill will not get through the House
any more than city extension through the Senate.
City extension is fatter than any an-cake.-
The city people have nauseated upon it to all ap-
pearances. The extras tied upon the bill have
loaded it so that its back has been badly oroken
The bill of Senator Slnguff Incorporating the
Baltimore Butchers Abattoir and Live Stock Com
pany has passed the Senate.
The Union Passenger Railway Company is try
ing to get through bill giving them the right to
use part of the tracks of the City Passenger Rail-
way Company, so that they can get down to the
City Hall. Mr.. ofYutt offers an amendment that
all companies shall use each others tracks when
ever necessary for the public convenience. This
Union Railway is the one that runs out to Wood
->-rne urff nxfngs rTte OF cxccutufs coHirufs-
sions at not less than two nor more than ten per
cent. was reconsidered so as to give it chance
for life.
The House passed the bill preventing any more
irredeemable ground rents.
The city extension bill, now amended, pro-
yides that the people CT Baltimore city shall also
vote whether they want the Belt. This means
more costs, more money to be spent at the expense
of the taxpayers.
The Maryland Central Railroad bill is going
along through the Senate, which allows them to
. run over other routes.
The bill to incorporate Gainesville has passed
the House and no doubt will get through the Sen
ate also.
A most vigorous fight has been made against
the bill removing the Eastern hay scales to an
other site. It was finally killed in the Ways and
Means Committee by unfavorabe report.
The whole of Wednesday was taken up with
the consideration of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
road Company's elevated road in baltimore
Amendments were offered but few adopted, and
the bill finally passed the House almost as IL came
from the Senate.
The marriage license bill has been vetoed and
will not pass over the veto, therefore 1t is dead
Revenue killed it, and the poetry sent you last
week was all wasted.
All the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bills got
through to-day after much bitter and acrimonious
opposition upon the part of those, who, peacock
like strutted up and down and showed that all
their virtue was in their tail-feathers, aud like
Mr.. Bernard Carter, everybody who did not agree
with them was nasty thing called lobbyist"
don't know where the bill preventing pollu-
ton of streams, &C., has gotto. Probably it might
be resurrected from somewhere if one of Judge
Yellotts habeas corpus writs could be got within
sight of it.
The imbece asylum bill has been amended in
the Senate, giving the Board of Public Works the
right TO name the location other than Pikesville,
and appropriating $4,000 for the erection of
buildings, &c.
The Jerusalem turnpike bill still hangs in the
Senate also the printing by contract bill. Will
they come out? Two more days will show, but L
am sure our Senator means business and Will put
them through.
Local option is being pushed for Alberton cot
ton mills. Mr.. Offutt fights it. 1t does not look
very blooming. BILLY BARLOW.