The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-03-17
From our Special Correspondent.
STATE House, ANNAPOLIS,
March 10Th, 1904.

STATE House, ANNAPOLIS,
March 10Th, 1904
The sessions of this week here at
the State House have been exceeding
~ dull and mOnotonOus, nothing like
tie interest being attached to those
Of the house and nothing like the
speed in those of the senate which
have characterized both during the
past few weeks. In the house on
Tuesday a heated debate, it is true,
did occur over the Nagrancy bill, the
parties going all to pieces over the
measure, and no sort of organization
being discernible in either. The
Allegany delegation having secured
the exemption of Garrett and Allie
gany, through the courtesy of the
committee before the bill was report
ed, properly voted in favor of the bill
as it stood and voted down amend
ments to knock it out But the tur-
bulence and unruly spirit of mob
exhibited by both parties has probab-
ly had very few parallels here in
twenty wears.
On Monday night nothing of impor
lance was done, while in Baltimore
the legislative committee was notify
ing Senator-elect Isidor Rayner of his
election as a senator of the United
States, which it seems, he had not
known before.
Cardinal Gibbons, the eminent pre-
late, has come out in opposition to
the Jim Crow bills and disfranchis-
ing amendment, dealing both, by
reason of his position and great infiu-
ence, the hardest blow they have had
yet. The Governor has not yet, it is
said positively decided to veto these
measures, but it said that he is
strongly considering it, with the
chances all in favor of his eventually
taking such step.
1t is stated in the senate that if Mr.
Wartield does this, not only will the
measures be passed over his veto,
/ that is if the Governor has the power
to veto tia mooted question-but
that certain democratic senators will
take the floor to denounce him, for
violation of his pledges, and other
matters where the senators disagree
with him.
The oyster, always worrying ques-
ton and one on which there is as
wide divergence of opinion as on any
other considered down here, is once
more on the tapis. The Sun is at
tempting its senatorial campaign tao
| tics and is doing its best to force this
measure through, and while, after
the exhibition which it gave in Jan
uary of its power, it is decidedly I'M
safe to say that there is anything that
the Sun can not whip Maryland men
into doing, still does seem extremely
improbable that it can force Mr.. b.
Howard Humans pet bill
The Sun day after day has harped
on 1.-The people, Its Ole song.-about
the people demanding the Haman
bill, and yet, day after day for five
or six weeks, hardly day failing to
produce it's crop, lengthy petitions
against the Hannah bill, and never a
one calling for its enactment into law
have come down here.
Even the oyster men themselves re-
alize that something must be done,
but they realize, what the Sun and
its lesser paterners, do not realize,
that the Hannah bill is not the way to
do it.
The oyster men want to know why
Mr.. Hannah is so much interested in
in this bill, why he has for ten years
been interested in this bill, and why
he does not modify its worst features
from the point of view of the oyster
men, if there is nothing in it hurtful
to their interests? There are a num-
Der of other questions that will have
to be very much more satisfactorily
answered than they haye ever yet
been, before they will permit their
representatives to stop fighting the
measure. 1t is something of this sort
that makes them laugh when the Sun
predicts dark political death in all
earHestness for Senator William F.
Applegarth, for opposing the measure;
for these men know that the more
the Sun alta cks him for his position,
the more of martyr does he become,
until instead of having the ordinary
number of enemies at home, he will