Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-02-02
PRIMAL IMPORT ANCE
PUBLIC INTEREST IN THE COR
MAN CONTEST WITH B. AND o.

STATE HOUSE.


STATE HOUSE,
ANNAPOLIS, Md. February 1, 1903
All other matters before the Maryland
legislature, or likely to come before it this
session, pale into insignificance in public
interest beside the absorbed attention every
one is giving the Germans, father and son.
in connection with the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad.
That there will be legislative investiga-
ton, with A. P. German. jr.. for the prob
ing finger, and A. P. German, sr., the strong
arm behind the legislative hand, is no
longer a matter of much doubt.
It is generally conceded that this will be
the action recommended by the finance COM
mittee of the senate on Messrs. German and
Baughman's report. President Seth, in his
terview advising this course and urging
that the senate call upon the house to CO.
operate in appointing an investigating COM
mittee.
Son the Senator's Pride. ,'.s'.
The pride and joy of United States SEN
ator Germans life is the young man who
represents Howard county in the upper
branch of the Maryland legislature, and
nothing probably in that long life has
given him such unalloyed satisfaction as
the fact that his son to a certain extent
has measured up to the position into which
he forced him, for the advice of all the
elder Germans friends was against pitch
forking the son into the politics of the state
so deeply without his first having been
given opportunity to win his spurs in
the house or somewhere else. Now it is
said that satisfied with the way the boy
has behaved, it is the fathers intention to
advance him to the position which he him
self now occupieS-in other words, retire at
the end of his present term as United States
senator in favor of his son.
What truth there may or may not be in
this surmise your, correspondent is unable
to say, but the facts and surface indications
Enthusiastically bear this out Senator Cor
man in his old laundering way has hit
upon a popular chord.
Will Follow a Hot Trail.
AS in the force bill fight of 1890. he has
stumbled upon a hot trail; and that he viii
follow it. especially if his ambition for his
son really is at stake. few doubt. And the
demagogHe attitude which the as
sumes his father is apparently strength
ening in every possible way.
1t was even young German who, as tenn
porary chairman of the committee jul
dicial procedure (by curious coincidence
one of his fathers henchmen is permanent
chairman and was conveniently absent.
turned in the report this morning which
showed that the state printer is not doing
for the state within several thousand dol
lars the amount of printing which the con-
tract can compel from him.
1t hau never been known until this morn
ing that the state printer can be compelled,
under his contract, to print every local bill
introduced, and without one cent of extra
compensation 1t was young German also
who introduced the bill in the senate to
repeal the law pensoning judges. which
looked at that time to be the most popular
bill throughout the counties to be presented
this session. The fact that it is rapidly los
ing in that popularity, and that it viii more
than probably be defeated, proves nothing
to the contrary. hat merely shows up the
senior senator's old fault OF seeing with diff
ficulty the popular trend. The course pur-
sued by the son today on the cigarette bill
Is doubtless likewise an instance of the
same poor Judgment.