Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-03-14
TO SIT AFTER ADJOURNMENT?
THIS POINT TOUCHED INB. so.
MEETING YESTERDAY.
Corporation Officials In a Panic
Don't Know Where Lightning
VIII Strike Next-Per-
sonal Notes On
Session.
HUGH BOND IS DESCRIBED IN
AN UNUSUAL WAY.

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mittee held a short session YESTERDAY
atternoca. in which nothing of great
general interest was accomplished
At tie close of the Qaestiopine. Mr.
Benson suggested that no Witnesses be
summoned tomorrow, hut that the
committee call IN one of its are ouut.
ants aad 90 over what has been done,
what has beeu accomplished end de-.
eide upon what e. do next.
The time for turning il a report is
nearly at hand ard some action must
be taken. Mr. Benson. III his few
words. throw out strong hint as TO
the course TO te pursued The init
nation was that it might be we'll
20 consider the advisabiiity IF sitting
after adlournme1t, since at this stage
of the session very few of the members
have the tiuc TO devote 10 this com.
mittee work
The developments of the past few
day in the b. & O. Investigation. and
tHo attendant course OF events in the
halls OF Senate and House have leen
enough to throw the corporation Off
cial9 now in Annapolis into about the
worst panic known TO them in wears.
Maryland at last has wakened up; she
is beginning tD wonder just what com
ENAAhNNAA@hA
larly raw deal she has been awarded
for a number of years past, from her
most-favored corporations There are
states where the people pay no direct
taxes at all, the corporations there paw
the entire expense of State govern
ment. as we'll they might. considering
the fact that none in the State stands
more IN need of the protection of the
law, and the protection which the
strong arm of the State affords.
In Maryland the reverse is true
Every little house owner pays his taxes
to the limit, but let the b. q Q. buv
his home, and that property ceases at
once TO pay one cent toward the sup
port OF the State government. There
are whole blocks of property in Balti.
mere, around Camden Station, which
the b. & o. is buying for trackape
facilities. This improvement is nee.
fS ssSaGX 5Ia and Is gratifyiag, TO Baltimore.
from the city tax list.
AT the B. & o. committees meet.
ings every afternoon, there is pecu.
liar looking, heavy faced, extremely
cold looking man who sits jnst back
of and very close to the Baltimore
and Ohio witnesses as they testify.
He usually has his arms folded and
his head with its expressionless face
turns slowly, almost mechanically.
until the eyes can take in whoever
it is that is speaking, the witness. or
one of the inquisitors From time to
time, when making answers, these b.
& o. employees turn to look at the
man, as though for coroboration or
sympathy. They might as we'll expect
the one from a block Of ice on a Jan
uary day, aud the ether from a new
hooked shark
The gentleman is Mr. Hugh Bond,
vice. president of he Baltimore and
Ohio railroad, aud the man who can
tell. if he is questioned properly, more
than anyone, or possibly everyone else
connected with the road put together,
for he has grown mp with it, and is far
more familiar with all the deals it has
made and all its transactions than is
MIR. Murray himself, who is compare
lively a new conner. Mr.. Bond has
been described as owning an express
| ionless face. This will generally be
conceded. and yet as he sits in the old
Senate Chamber, evening after even
| ing with his arms folded, and his eyes
never away from the faces of those
who are speaking, there is something
extremely suggestive in the mans
whole bearing, attude.H He looks as
| Though he were fairly boiling oveI
with suppressed rage. The sarrogance
of high railway officials is proyeTbial,
and he is the personification of the
railway official.
Mr.. Bond is in Annapolis watching
mis- witnesses. to hear what they testi
fy, aud waiting until he shall himself
be called. He is too cold, passi0Dless
of course to do any such thing, but i
his suppressed rage could be prickeC
70 the bursting point by an exasperat
ing a man as Mr.. Hayes, for example
can be in questioning, the hearing
might be greatly enliyened. 1t i
dou btful if any in the room would ap
preciate such a development as thi
more than his his own subordinat
railway officials. 1t may only be al
appearance, but the expression on tn
faces of every one of these when the,
have looked around at him uncomfor
atbly from time to time, has beel
almost Enthusiastically fear and dis
like. They might be imagined a
liking him, just as easily as the,
could be conceived as admiring am
feeling a fondness for a sweet ant
amiable cuttlefish. perched there i
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