The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-03-30
THE LEGISLATURE.
What Has Been Done During
the Week by Our Solons
at Annapolis.

tVO, lutiouuCVu III Tue hOuSc FTl-
day afternoon, the 23rd inst, the
bills providing for the support of
the State government during
1901 and 1902.
The bill fixing the State tax
rate was also introduced. I'm.
mediately after their introduction
favorable reports on both bills
were adopted. This completes
the list Of financial bills.
The tax rate is fixed for 1901 at
Ia cents on the 500, which is
the present rate, and at IL cents
for the year 1902.
The Appropriation bill provides
for the creation of State loan of
$500. 900, which is to be known
as the State building and i'm.
provement loan. This sum is to
be distributed as follows: For i'm.
proving the Springfield Asylum
for the Insane at SykeSville, $50,
600; for the Maryland Peniten-
tiary, $3.50, 900, and for new
building in Annapolis for the
Court of Appeals and the library,
$500, 900.
The Board of Public Works is
authorized to fix the rate of in
terest, not to exceed 81 per cent,
and the bonds are to be advertis-
ed and sold to the highest bidder
submitting sealed bids.
On Monday night the bill to
substitute the name of Howard
for Hanson for statuary hOnOrs in
Washington passed to its third
reading in the House.
The Franchise Commission bill
for Baltimore will be unfavorably
reported.
There is hope that the Gas
bill as amended in the House,
fixing the price at S1.1O, will pass
the Senate.
1t is believed that the bill
creating the office of State Super
intendent of Public Education
will be passed by the Legislature.
Senator Stevenson Williams
has prepared substitute for the
Mercantile License bill.
The bill appropriating S25, 900
to the Johns Hopkins University
passed the Senate.
The Senate on Tuesday last,
by vote 20 to 8 passed the bill
fixing the price of gas in Balti-
more at $1.10 per thousand cubic
feet.
The Sanford Sunday bill was
defeated in the House, but was
reconsidered and made the spec =
ial order for Wednesday.
The bill to lease barren lands
for oyster cultivation was I'M
favorably reported in the House
and the report was adopted.
The bill to increase the police
force of Baltimore and other pc.
lice measures have passed the
Senate and are expected to pass
the House.
The bill to substitute John
Eager Howard for Hanson as one
of Maryland's representatives in
Statuary Hall was defeated in
the House.
The bill to create a franchise
commission for Baltimore was de.
teated.
Senator ROhrback's bill to pro
vide for the payment of a salary
to the keeper of the law library
of this county was passed by the
Senate on Tuesday.
The bills to provide for a de-
partment of pedagogy in Fred
erick College and to amend the
charter of Brunswick were passed
by the Senate.
The bill appropriating S., 900
to the Frederick City Hospital
has been passed by the Senate.
The bill providing for the col
lection of battle flags carried in
the Civil war by both Federal
and Confederate armies was re
ported iavorably by the Finance
Committee in the Senate OH Wed
nesday. The bill as it passed the
House appropriated $1,000 for
the purposes of the bill. This
amount was reduced to 81, 800,
which the Senate Committee
deems sufficient.
Messrs. Waters and Lakin, of
Frederick, voted against the
passage of the Sanford Sunday
bill in the House on Wednesday.
The bill to provide for a new
building for law library and the
Court of Appeals, at Annapolis,
was passed by the Senate without
a dissenting vote. The amount
allowed is $500, 200.
The Sanford Sunday bill passed
the House of Delegates.
The Free Transfer bill passed
the Senate. 1t had already
passed the House.
The Potomac Pollution bill was
defeated in the House.
The Corporation Committee of
the Senate gave hearing on the
Telephone Conduit bill.
The Traders License bill passed