Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-02-03

ing s session the hardest OF hare. FAC
tionRl lines almost evenly divided the
Senate, but at the close of the re-
marks of State Senator A. p German,
Jr., these had entirely disappeared.
and no voice and no vote were raised
on the other side. Mr.. Lee, who had
been expected to lead the opposition,
saw the hopelessness of trying TO do
any such thing, aud showed his high
calihre by joining with German in
the issue, Moore, Perkins and all the
rest did the saue The entire hour
and-a quarter long discussion twas en-
tirely as TO the quickest way of pro-
ceeding. Ia his deliberate, dispassion.
ate manner, Mr.. Lee said far more in
condemnation than did Mr.. German.
Finally the debate proved what the
men who knew him have all along
contended, that the master mind, the
ablest man in the upper house of the
legislature, is sthe gentleman who
presides over it, and 10 whom il was
the Capitals pleasure, not long ago to
allude, editorislly. General Seth,
yesterday, for the first time, tempo
rarily resigned the chair to enter the
debate. He spoke TO the point in about
three minutes he struck at the kernel
of the entire discussion: he suggested
way TO settle the controversy at
once, and his way was Immediately
adopted.
Rather an amusing nti.climax to
the session was Mr.. Perkins order, in
tr1duced immediately before adjourn
ment, and made the special order for
Monday night. Mr.. Perkins was left
out in the cold in the committee as
signmeDts, and since the opening of
Nk,1 4
planning tosTemedy Ethis defect. His
motion TO make of the Judiciary and
Finance committees a joint committee
for the consideration of all future
matters relating TO the b. 81 o., if
adopted, will be calculated to make
him, as one of the Judiciary Commit
tee, among the most sought after
members of the upper body, q position
which Mr.. Perkins naturally wants to
occupy.
In the story printed yesterday after
noon by the Baltimore News, one bit
of wisdom particularly aroused the ire
of such of the lawmakers aud State
officials who stayed over here.
Everybody knows. said this ar
ticle, quoting a prominent Baltimore
lawyer, that because Washington,
practically, is a great terminal of the
Baltimore and Ohio; because the Balti-
more and Ohio cannot place blanket
mortgage over its whole system so
long as the State holds these shares of
stock, and because it would thereby
rid itself of mass of litigation, the
States Washington Branch stock is
worth vastly more 10 the Baltimore
and Ohio than TO any outsider.
This fact gives the stock, legiti-
mately, greater value than it would
have otherwie. But there should be
no attempt to gouge the Baltimore and
Ohio. 1t is quite possible that it would
be cheaper for the Baltimore and Ohio
to pay 81, 600 a share than fail to get
the stock, bat that would be no justifi-
cation for the States holding it up for
that amount -
! "What, in thesrame of a most high
heaven, is there in the true story OF
the way the Baltimore and Ohio rail.
road has treated this State since time
I immemorial, but since 1897 particular.
ly, to ground it or its friends in say.
/ ing that Maryland would not be iusti
! fed in holding it up for 81 900 q
share or any conceivable price IL might
/ get for this stock9 The State is Justi
| fed in gripping this corporation by
| the throat if it can do so, and stranglC
hold not barred - This was the
| ejaculation of prominent local states
man last night at the Maryland, wher
the above paragraph was read ou
loud. True the Baltimore and Ohio
has not scrupled to hold up the State
! why should the State scruple if it il
now the States turn. But then, per
haps it is true as Mr.. German says
that 1.-TWO wrongs never make ont
right.
The State House has assumed th'
regular air, incident TO busy rushing
session of the General Assembly, anC
the lobbies and corridors are hllet
every day with crowds of member
and lobby lists intent on business of al
the different kinds usual here for tn
last two thirds of the ninety days, al
lowed by the Constitution, every tw'