Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1888-02-24
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Senate on Tuesday last, Mr.. Cotton from a
majority Of the Committee on Inspections, re-
ported unfsvorsbly Mr.. Edelen's bill % re-
peal the compulsory feature Of the Tobacco
Inspection law Mr.. Edelen, like the Repub-
lican representative in the House, Mr. Posey
is always alive to the interests Of the people Of
Charles c5unty, and Immediately when the re-
port was made, moved the substitution Of the
bill for the unfavorable report:
He eontended "that tobacco growers should
have right 10 sell their tobacco as other pro-
ducts are sold and without restrictions. The
present law is disgrace 70 our statute-books
and should be wiped out. He went into a
history Of the present system, and made a
strong speech for what he called the poor
privilege Of selling tobacco as the grower
may see ct. He referred TO the protest BY the
Tobacco Leaf Association II Baltimore against
any change in the present system, and asked
what business it was Of theirs; they do not
grow plant Of tobacco. He said that tobsc-
CO was 10 Charles county what cotton is 70
many places in the South; that its price has
fallen so low that there is barely farmer in
Charles county who Is not going behind eve
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practically ia favor Of this bill. The late
county conventions, Republican aud Demo
crat, adopted resolutions in favor oft.
want 10 say to the Baltimore city Senators
that IL is a mistake TO suppose that the pas
sage OF this bill will take away the tobacco
trade from Baltimore 1t will do no such
thing Messrs. Gail l. Az and other Balti.
more tobacco firms may well come down here
opposing any change | am informed that
warehouse No furnishes them with a conve-
nient place ia which TO store their foreign TO-
bacco. They pay storage, Of course, and IL is
ibis revenue which makes large the receipts
Of that warehouse. ! say to these gentlemen,
stay in Baltimore and attend 10 your business
and let US attend TO ours. He warned the
Senate that the people Of Southern Maryland
were ready TO break their allegiance TO the
democratic party aud 60 with any
party that will grant them this
relief. All we want Is TO have a chance 10
try free inspection. We do not want to touch
the warehouses at present. We will leave
pose Is not good one, then II will amount to
nothing; If II is good one, IL will do away
with the present system
Mr.. Randall, Rep, of Anne Arundel coun-
", said: 81 feel impelled by sense of duty
10 add my voice to what has already been 90
ably said by the Senator from Charles. II
has been the settled conviction Of the people
of nv county for years that the system is an
incubus upon them. They have been stag
gering for years, and unless the weight is
taken off they must ultimately fall. The sys-
tenn has been for years imposed upon them
against their wishes and in violation of their
rights and liberties. No other State has any
such system" He referred to the origin Of
the system, an outcome of the peculiar colo
NAL system, when everything was paid 10 to-
bacco, salaries were rated in tobacco, &C.
Pressure for office has kept this system up. Il
must ne wiped out, and the blight taken from
Southern Maryland.
The bill was unanimously substituted for
the unfavorable report, read a second time,
and ordered to be engrossed for a third read
ing.