Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-02-24
THE WEEK IN POLITICS.
Summary Of The Doings On State
House Hill The Past
Six Days.

Governor Warfield has made all
his appointments aud from this time
on 10 the end of the session will be
able to devote himself to consideration
of matters Of legislation, unhampered
! by the opportunities of officeseekers
and their friends, who have made his
life burden since the opening days in
January. OF course there are many
disappointments, and several Of the
Senators ere threatening war on the
! Governor, but the list of names has
| been, as a whole, we'll received. and
the indications that all, with possibly
few exceptions, will be promptly
confirmed.
Both houses are trausacting "A large
amount of routine business, very>littie
of whiCh~is of any general interest.
The important measures are nearly all
yet ia committee rooms, hut it is ex.
pected that many of them will be
brought out at once when the interest.
ing general legislation will be taken
up aud pushed TO a conclusion. The
point committee to investigate the Bal
| tiTnore and Ohio Railroad Company is
T. getting ready for business and is ex-
| pected TO meet almost daily in the old
! Senate chamber. Whether the mem
| bers intend to play politics or inyes-
| tigate the matter for the best interests
| Of the State, remains to be seen.
| County people from every section
! Of the State, from Garrett on the
west, TO Worcester on. the southeast,
! have been here this week in greater
numbers than at any time this ses-
! sion. Nearly all were politicians and
all talked politics, especially next
years politics, aud the usual diversity
of opinion prevailed. The most inter
esting feature of the talk was that
ex- Governor Elihu 4. jackson 5
friends all seem TO think that be will
again be candidate for the nomina-
tion next year, while the friends of
1 Ex-Governor Brown and Governor
| Warfield seem confident that their IA
vorites will also be IN the running
when the time comes, ready to make
| an energetic contest for the honor.
| State Senator Frances, Of Cecil coun.
! ty, seems 60 be the favoTite among
the Republicans for their party nomi-
nation.
What will be done in regard TO a
| general primary election law is q
| problem. Some of the county people
want new primary law. while others
are either hostile or Indifferent The
| city delegates seem to be divided on
| the subject and party lines are not
drawn on the matter up to the present
time. The Demo Gratis generally an
I pear to favor the Crescent Club plan,
| which will be taken up IN q few DAYS
1t is understood that before the close
of the session the Crescent Club will
invite the democratic members TO a
| meeting at their club house in Balti-
more, where they will be given an en-.
| tertainment ard incidentally have q
talk on the subject of further Tegula-
tion Of primary elections.
Another subject under discussion
here is the resolution providing for
an investigation into the sale of the
States interest in the Chesapeake and
Ohio Canal The law which author
| lied the sale is said by some Of the
| best law gers in Maryland TO be void,
and if such should be the decision of
the courts, the sale to the Western
| Mary land Railroad Company will fail,
aud the whole business will have to
be gone oyer again. The sale was not
popular, as the price paid was so
small as to be simply ridiculous 1t is
fully alleged here, aud by people who
ought to know, that collision between
| the Baltimore and Ohio, the Pennsyl-
| yania and the Western Maryland is
responsible for the low price received
aud there is lack of going into this
phase of the sale in a thoroughly
| searching manner. In fact it is now
said that the resolution offered earlier
in the session,to look into the sale had
this aim for its sole reason. 1t is rec
! ognized that the Board of Public
| Works did all that 1t could do under
| the circumstances. The States in
terest in the canal cost as a whole
over $50. 600, 600, and it seems absurd
that no more than $50, 600 should
| have been paid for il after all these
| years Of controversy. Other interests
are said to be ready to pay much more
for the property should an opportunity
| be gwen them to do SO.