Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-03-07
LEGISLATURE PROCEEDINGS.
Legislature Working Overtime In
Vast Flood of Bills-Appoint-
ments Confirmed.

ments Confirmed.
The Senate held long, busy. in.
volved session this morning, after
which at ?. 40, on the third motion TO
that effeUt by Mr.. Gadd, it went into
executive session, and confirmed all the
county appointments. including Z.
Watkins, tobacco Inspector In addi-
tion to the appearance of a number of
new measures and a vast amount of
outine file clearing, there were four
or five animated discussions. Mr..
Gorman's bill to allow the appraise.
ment of cattle. slaughtered because of
disease after death. in certain cases.
brouhgt Mr.. Lee out on the subject TO
the effect that the bill as it stands is
faulty lit does not provide the proper
safeguards for the State Mr.. Lee
asked that it, be returned TO the com.
mittee, which was done.
Mr.. Linthicum's primary election
bill was the next special order. This.
as planned originally. provided the
Crawford county system for primary
elections all over the State aud bv
both parties. It was amended at once
so as to limit il to Baltimore Even
then it was pretext enough for a dis
cussion. Mr.. Lee explained that
there are two forms OF Democrats
patriarchal Democrats and popuIar
Democrats. He asserted that the
Crawford county system for elections.
is heartily approved of by the popular
Democrats. He went ON to apply
much the same principal to the Re
publican party, aud deduced from this
line Of reasoning, that the men who
are opposed TO the bill favor the cor
porations while its friends oppose
them. This brought expressions of
opinion from Mr. Brewington, Mr.
France, Mr.. Baker, Mr.. Lancaster
and several others. An amendment
was proposed eliminating the Craw-
ford county feature from the bill,
which was adopted, after which Mr..
Young proposed an amendment which
is anRentire new bill. This went over
until tomorrow.
At the close of the session the oyster
question was introduced, in the share
of a favorable report by the Commit
tee on ChesapeaL Bay and its Tribu.
taries, on Bill 81 (rhe Haman Bill),
with amendments. This is the much
discussed oyster compromise bill,
which Mr.. Brewington declared pos,
sessed Of all the virtues of the Haman
bill, minus its defects He also ex-
planned that it was the best oyster bill
which had ever been introduced aud
Que which had very good chance iu-
Iced of passing. Mr.. Perkins offered
an amendment to it, which evoked "a
storm of protest from Mr.. Brewington
and others, who declared that the
bill, as it now stands, is practically
favored by all concerned. but that it
would not be so received il il is
amended. He explained that the tacit
understanding of the whole matter is
that it will not be amended. The
entire proposition went over until to.
morrow night, by which time it will
have been distributed, printed in the
journal. An order was passed to have
printed 500 extra copies of the new
measure.
Early in the session Mr.. Perkins
introduced an order which was adopt.
ed, calling on the Secretary of State
to furnish the Senate with a list of
the names of all legislative agents reg
istered with him. From a study Of
Mr.. Perkins complex character this
probably means great deal more than
a mere desire to know what the order
provides. 1t is very probable that
this innocent paper may be the cloak
under which is being prepared an in
quiry as to why there are not more
Legislative agents registered in the
book kept for that purpose by the Sec.
retary of State.
The election bill of MIR. Linthicum,
which was supported by the author
and Mr.. Perkins, of the Baltimore
delegation, Likewise has meaning
These two Baltimore men nave abso-
InfaIp No ohnpu W bafavor 81;
cal future, in all likelihood, except
with the assistance which the CraW
ford county plan will lend them.
Without it, both are very probably
doomed. This does not apply to either
Jones or, Young, hence the fact that
only two city Senators favored the
plan. Mr.. Lee aud one of two Others
of the independent ilk were lined uI
against the full organization strength
of both parties, which defeated them
accordingly. 1t may be said truthfully
that the organization have il in fol
these gentlemen.
General Seth is suffering from some
throat trouble and was not able tC
preside at this mornings session.
The House was in session two ano
a half hours today and transacted
with great rapidity, a large amount
of business Of very little general OF
local interest, and at ? 80 took re
cess to s p. m.
Mr.. Shipley introduced, by request
bill to repeal certain sections o.
| the attachment law so far as they ap
ply to the attachment of wages q
| time due employees
The ten minute rule to limit debat,
is enabling the Speaker to expedit,
| business and it is believed that til,
| files will be easily cleared at the enc
| Of each week, although many new
/ bills are coming in every day TIL,
number of bell-ringers presented up Il
| the present time breaks the recoTC
1 and new ones. unheard of in forme
| sessions, are coming cut every day
| The statesmen of the third house as
| sert, however, that very little stuff
has been handed cut. and that tn,
session up to date has been extreHael,
dry.
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