Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-02-01
DON'T WANT CIGARETTES.
SENATE VOTES IN FAVOR OF
GOLDSBOROUGH BILL.
If 1t Passes Boys Will Stop Smok.
ing Anything But Pipes
In This State.
BUSY SESSIONS ARE HELD IN
BOTH HOUSES.

General Assembly was the fight in
the Senate over the favorable report,
by the Committee on Sanitary ooudi.
tion of the State, on Mr.. Colds
borough's 5 anti-oigarette bill.
This report, after long debate and
repeated attempts to delay and amend
the bill. had failed, was adopted and
the bill placed upon its third reading
Throughout the discussion the Senate
galleries were we'll filled and many
spectators occupied positions on the
floor.
Mr.. German today took ground di.
rectly~fn opposition to that he has oc-
oupled aud been made to occupy of
late, as champion of the interests of
the people. He was opposed TO this
bill and fought it Ielentlessly from
start to finish With him were Sena-
tors Gadd, of Anne Arundel, aud
Biddison, of Baltimore county.
The debate began shortly before /
O'Clock, the special order on the sub
Ject being called for by motion
from Mr.. Biddison to send the bill to
the Committee on JudiciaI Proceed
ings. Mr.. Perkins had attempted that
yesterday and failed. Ii was similar
ly treated today, only seven Senators
voting for the new committal
Mr.. Perkins then tried to amend
the bill so that it would go into effect
June l instead of May 1. That in
effect would have. been to prolong the
tenure of cigarettes in the State an
other year. Some new license WOE Id
then have been issued. The amend
ment was withdrawn.
Mr.. Biddison then offered an amend
ment to strike out all after the words
"a Ibill'. For this amendment Mr..
German spoke at length. He said
that the measure will not accomplish
the desired Iesult-prevent boys from
smoking cigarettes since they may
import them from Washington and else
where; that it will merely hurt the
manufacturing interest to no good
purpose. 1.-TWO wrongs" he said,
will not make one right. )"
Mr.. Lancaster followed him with
an account of condition in Charles
county, where he complained that
teachers could hardly hear lessons for
fumes of the weed and where all bows
fingers are yellow with nicotine. "I
have two boys there myself" he said.
l expect wnIIe I'm uUwnne unoy
are learning how.
Mr.. Lee thought that the bill would
be a powerful agent in the fight
against tuberculosis, sure, Anything
that Injuries the lungs will help the
chances of this disease. He favored it
on every ground, but particularly on
this.
Mr.. Greenwell made quite a long
speech on the subject, in warm sup
port of the bill, in which he said that
he was surprised that any other Sena-
tor should urge its killing, because it
will cost the revenues of the State
aout So, 600, when it is a known fact
tina cigarettes cost the State untold
wealth in the weakening of growing
generations and in their consequent
degraded mentality.
Mr.. German wanted to know who
had advanced the money side of tho
question at all. 1t was not a question
of money, he said, but simply of the
wisdom of enacting law to prohibit
something which it will not prohibit
He remembered trip which he haC
made down on the Eastern Shore, ht
said, where prohibition holds good
There none may sell liquor, but j
may be drunk at any time. Result
every trains baggage car is filled will
neat brown jugs. The law, in effect
| was a farce.
Mr.. Moore was surprised that Mr.
German should have tried all over tn,
Eastern Shore on that occasion, un
| successfully, to get drink. Laughter
Mr.. Lancaster wanted to know i
Mr.. German had anything to offer il
| place of the bill that would be effeo
| tive. Mr.. German pointed to the Law
i now on the statute books prohibiting
| cigarette smoking by miners.
/ Mr.. Goldsborough said that the onI.
| nowledge that we have on the sub
| ject of the proposed laws effective
/ ness is in the TACT that it has worke,
| to perfection elsewhere. He mad, b
| said, intended Incorporating claus
| which Mr.. German suggested, prohio
| iting smoking cigarettes, as well a
having them for sale or making them
| hut had been advised that this wa
| unconstitutional. To all pleas tba
the judiciary committee ought to dc
| termine the constitutionality of tn
measure, he turned a deaf ear. II
had been assured by eminent lega
authority that the measure will
perfectly constitutional and had n
| desire to turn ii over to a committe
which would merely delay it, to u
good.
Mr.. Brewington favors a measuT
that will prevent minors smoking, b
said, but objects to this bill becaus
it will make him quit smoking, whic
seemed to him an entirely differer
matter. The amendment was los
overwhelmingly. only Messrs. Biddi
son. Gadd and German voting for it.
Mr.. Biddison Immediately took al
other tact, and instead Of attemDtin
direc tly TO beat the measure, offered
sweeping amendment which in effet
would put the tobacco industry Of ii
State out of business, thus attackin
the bill indirectly. Mr.. Greenwe
| challenged this attitude severel,
charging bad faith on Biddison's par
and that his intention all along hs
been none other than TO kill outrigl
the bill. This vas also lost by q
same vote. Mr.. German then otferc
an order to lay the bill over until
report from the Attorney General
to its constitntionality can be secures
Some discussion as TO the form OF til
order took place in the course
which Nj. German took occasion
say that il was impossible to pr
scribe time when the bill shou
come up again, since the Attorn
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