The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1902-04-04
End of Legislature.
GREAT RUSH OF BILLS AT
CLOSE.
May be an Extra Session to En-
act Law to Collect State
Taxes, Which Was Over
looked-Local M e asur re S
Passed.

/ hands on the clock pointed to
the hour of midnight, but really
! that hour was long passed. The
usual presentation of gifts to the
presiding officers were made, but
in the Senate the habitual decor
um and good feeling was distur-
bed by bitter contention over
the Shepherd Oyster Shell Seat
tering bill. The floor was crowd
ed with spectators at the tine
/ and there was a scene of confusion
and intense excitement.
The final adjournment closed a
session of importance, in which
several measures of general inter
est were lost. The chief of these
are: The Hannah Oyster bill, Six
Tickets fora Quarter bill, the bill
to close the Potomac tunnel open
cut: the Conduit Electric charter
and all attempts at sewer legisla-
tion failed.
The most important of the laws
enacted are the following:
The Congressional RediStrict-
ing bill, dividing the city into
four legislative districts, Primary
Election law, amendments to the
General Election law, for enlarg-
ing the State House.
In addition to these there have
been Il great many trust and cleo
trio and other corporations char
tered.
The closing hour of the House
of Delegates was devoted to eul-
ogy of Speaker Mitchell by the
Republican leaders. All the busi-
ness of the House had been trans
acted. Some few Senate bills
were left on the files to die quiet
, death. a few of these were dup
licateS. Others, such as Senator
Wilson's Educational Commits
sion bill and Senator Greenwell'S
q Inspection bill to which MIR.
StrauS had announced his OppO-
sition, were not brought out.
= Nothing was heard Monday
: about the Sewer bill and its death
excited no remark whatever. The
matter rested where it was left on
1 Saturday. The House on Satur
. day adopted the conference re-
port recommending the commits
sion with Mr. S. Davies War
a fields name in it. The Senate
. after adopting the report recon
sidered its action, rejected the re
port and sent a message asking
for another conference. The
House refused this request. AL
this took place on Saturday, anC
there the matter rested.
+ Mr.. Straus declared that he
+ would stand by Mr.. Wartield and
Mr.. Bryan was equally determined
to make no further move, and so
the matter quietly dropped, and
t sewer legislation for the session
ended.
The Governor will be greatly
embarrassed by the number OF
bills which will be submitted to
him for approval after adjourn
ment. 1t is possible that never
before were there SO many at the
end of session. Every bill that
has up to this time been sent to
the Executive has been acted
upon, but the number submitted
to him during the session is I'm
usually small. He has six days
in which to sign them after they
are presented to him. If he fails
to sign or veto them within that
time, during the session, they be
come laws Notwithstanding they
are not signed. Failure to sign
them, however, after adjournment
defeats them. 1t will tax the
Governor to examine such Il mass
of bills in so short a time. The
Attorney General of the State
will advise the Executive and aid
him to that extent.
a deficiency bill apprOpriating
$40, 600 for the expenses of this
session of the General Assembly
was introduced Monday afternoon
and passed in both House under
suspension of the rules. The APP
preparation for the expenses for
the session made by the last
Legislature was $4,000 If all
of the amount in the Deficiency
bill is used up it will bring the
cost of the session up to S165, 900,
an unusually large amount.
At the closing sessions of the
Legislature the following local
measures were passed, and with
the Governors signature will be
come laws:
To authorize the payment of
franchise taxes to Brunswick.
TO regulate the payment of
mileage to witnesses in Frederick
county.
To amend the liquor laws of
Frederick county.
To incorporate the Myersville
Cemetery Company.
To amend the charter of the