The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1906-02-10
Special Correspondence Baltimore County Union.
LETTER FROM ANNAPOLIS.
ANNApor1s. ND. Fehrnarv


ANNAPOLIS. Nd February sth, 1906.
Senator Biddison has presented to Governor
warneld his list Of applicants for the local Off
ces in Baltimore county, under the appointment
of the Governor. The Governor evidently has
the county situation well in hand, for he called
the attention of the Senator to protests that had
been filed against the appointment of Justice
Mueller, Of Canton; Justice Bevan. of Airing
ton. and Justice Kehoe- Mr. Thomas B. TODD is
again recommended for School Commissioner
although Mr.. Todd Is credited with the express
sion Of desire to step out of Office.
Legislation of local character for the great
county of Baltimore is limited, but there is no
such boundaries placed upon bills proposed for
Baltimore city. Their advent is likened to
food.
Public measures of profound character now
begin to loom up in mighty prominence in the
halls Of legislation-the B. & o. inquiry and the
canal sale investigation, proposed by Mr.. God
win, Republican, Of the House. The latter is
one of the brainiest men in the Assembly and
when he takes hold of matter it may be well
deemed that It is not mere legislative and rhetor-
zeal pyrotechnics but that he has real ammu-
milton in his gun and solid shot in front of the
powder.
The declaration of the per cent. dividend on
the d. & o. Branch is a sop to Cerberus. The
road evidently wants the State dog to stop bark
ing, and seeks to muzzleit TO prevent it biting.
The light thrown on the BE- O.'s methods already
shows the folly of selling this valuable stock.
The State should hold it and make the railroad
pay up. It is an old scheme for corporations to
suppress dividends and make stock valueess,
and then the schemers who planned the wreck
age are profited by their own unfaithful acts as
frT1of m ha u0b0dv n
poor as to stand against the States demands
now, but as soon as the railroad takes hand in
the contest and gets to fighting in earnest, sad
to say how many friends it will find to announce
what good fellow the d. & o. isl When the
compromise OF 1878 was mace with the road ft is
well known that the State was beaten in the
transaction and that powerful lobby-the
lobby of the old days-was mighty happy over
the result, and Hobbies do not grow exhuberant
unless they have hand in the dividends result
ing from the enactment of dubious legislation.
The proposition to build an armory for the
! two companies of the Maryland National Guard
located at Annapolis opens a wide and impor-
tant field of legislation, and of necessary inn
provement to the Guard. Following the exam
pie the State has set in giving the Fifth Regi-
ment fine quarters in Baltimore, it would be wise
policy in the State to build wherever it has
military organization an armory for its use.
The effort to supervise private banks is meet
ing with serious opposition. The bill appears,
from the opinion of capable men like Senator
Wellingtona and Mr.. Miles, to be very pernicious
measure. 1t is declared the crude work of
novice. The savings bank the private bank and
the building association is the friend of the man
of modest means. and it would be a serious mat
ter to cripple them with unwise legislation.
Senator Biddison, chairman of the committee
having this bill in charge, has appointed a sui
committee to consider it. Mr.. Lehmeyer. Of the
House Committee on Corporations, has also az
pointed similar committee.
The anti cigarette bill is labelled with the
legend "Defeat" in the House so the prophets
seem to say.
The per cent. dividend on tho b. g. o. will
prove an acceptable aid to the State Treasury,
whose need of funds is given in a warning note
by Treasurer Vandiver. G. d. r.