Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1906-01-25
SxAxh HoUsE, Annapolis,
January %. 1905

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Slowly the General Assembly Is
getting down to business Both
! branches Of the law-makinR body
took week 5 rest after the ardn0us
labors OF organizing and. once more
assembled after their period Of re-
llaxation, were apparently again over
fcome by the memory OF what they
| had been through, for the Tuesday
night and Wednesday morning ses-
sions we're the Qnly ones hello the
second weeks Last week, however,
| taere we're four sessions, aud this
week there may be Eve. All this Is
apparently in difference to old but
senseless custom that nothing OF
consequence shall be done during
the FIRST half Of the biennial O.days.
The committees are all announced
now. however, the organization Isl
complete. all or nearly all OF the
spells have been divided and the
State may soon look for work from
these, its servants, whose good
wages IL pays every day and Sun.
day too whether they do anything
to earn them or not.
Fow matters Of partizan nature are
expected 70 come before the Legis-
lature this session. There Is talk
OF changes ia the Election Law, but
even that is supposN7 70 be non-par-
titan % reform which all good citi-
zens will want TO see. Aside from
that this ought TO be q business
Legisiature-one TO godowE ia State
annals as having wasted little time
on politics and craftsmanship, having
been too busy with business leQisla.
ton.
This is what II should bio and what
It easily might be except for the
threatening attitude OF one wing oil
the Senate toward the Governor.
Last week there we're abundant in
dications that certain Senators are
not friendly toward the Governor
aud still more abundant indications
that certain other Senator's are not
only friendly 10 His Excelloncy. but
much TOO ready to take up his fight
A readiness 70 cross facti0nal words
and 70 wash Democratic linen in the
State Senate may be as harmful 10
the interests 81 the State a. waste
81 valuable time Id partizan lights.
On face 81 the matter. the cause
Of the trouble last week was limo
cent enough Senators German and
Brewington on Wednesday. intro
duced orders the tirst inquiFing of
the Attorney General what bad been
done In pursuance Of legislative To-
structions. given III 1900. towards
safeguarding the States interest III
the Washington Branch Of che % &
O. railroad; the second, asking the
Governor for foil official Information
regarding the sale of Maryiandai
forest iu the @. n O. Canal 70 the
Western Maryland railroad. Theses
are both matters Ia which theensIre
State Is Interested aud on which Ii
has abundant riRhtt0 be enlightened.
Certainly too, tho Senate has q right
10 the Information which those or.
ders looked 10 It's receiving, never
theless, members 81 The Senate ind
friends 81 the Governor, seeing Ia
both orders q clnblDr the Executive,
and exercising more loyalty than
Judgment, throw themselves into
the breach, secured postpOnoment
where there should have bean 20
postponement and preclpiiated dis.
cussion where there should have
been no discussion
Whatever may have been the al.
terror motive Of Messrs. German and
BrewinRton each denied any mo.
tive save The obvious one 81 seeking
information and both belong 10 the
faction out Of sympathy With the
Executive their Intention would
have failed, but Tor tbs course 81 the
Governor $ friends The Governor
himself had nothing 10 conceal aud
will lay no straw 10 the way of the
Senate's having ell the Information
il may desire. and BIO does not him.
self want delay, but his friends by
their rush 10 bis support allowed
the opposition toqnestion why2 "If
everything Is al right they ma.
turally asked, why do you object
10 our having all the details we
want2p IL looks as though there
was something To conceal. 4
And so the trouble between the
Governor and the lenders of his own
party has come outfrom under cover
and has taken The open The Eirss
clash results liz an even heat The
orders so far as clubbing tho Cover
nor Ks concerned have fallen lIat-
the Governor will give the informa-
tion but on the other hand BY the
course Of bis friends they have
managed to throw aud undeserved
slur % bis name.
The sessions Of both houses TO-
night, as all last week, we're short
The Haman Bill has been introduced
Ii thesfIouse the new Corporation
Bill, radically changing the corpo-
ration laws 81 the State, Is 10 the
Senate The Judges Pension Repeal
Bill is III both houses, and the Shoe
maker Road Law repeal bill Is 10 the
House.
Not few plugging bills 0f
great age, but little dignity, have
been introduced already too, while
legislation affecting the railroads is
tolerably certain OF passage. A fiat
rate OF Q cents per mile is provided
for 10 Bill presented in the House