The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1910-01-20
PEACE MUST PREVAIL,
SAYS SENATOR SMITH
Visits Annapolis And Prevents Open
War With Crothers.

United States Senator John Walter
Smith was in Annapolis Monday night.
He was there in the interests of har-
mOny,
He advocated peace.
incidentally, his friends let it be
known that he favored more EMPLOYEES.
One week ago, in Washington, after
the Benson revolt at Annapolis Ex-Gov-
ernor Smith said:
MY place is now here. had abso-
lutely no knowledge of the develop
ments there I'm Annapolis). or Of what
was expected to develop"
ANNAPOLIS, MD. Jan. 10. United
States Senator Smith demands peace.
He has notified his friends in the House
of Delegates that peace must prevail.
They have been told to go along with
Governor Crothers. All the members
Of the House knows of Senator Smiths
wishes today. He was here last night
talking over the situation with friends.
He came to restore harmony. Floor
Leader Benson had previously been
smoothed over. Now that Senator
Smiths friends are to have no encour-
agenent for being bad, they must fall
in line
Coupled with Senator Smiths de-
mand for peace was a soothing lotion
for the members Of the House in the
form Of additional Legislative employees,
He is not, his friends say, in favor Of
taking down the bars, He wants to
see the Legislature make record for
economy, but she does not think the
economy program should be worked too
hard. He feels it will prove to be a
counter irritant to the soothing effects
OF his words He believes the number
of employees should bee fixed. but the
fixing should be So arranged that each
member Of the House will have one
employee TO his credit
limitations were hving about the cor
ridor t'lst Governor Crothcrs was will
ing 70 accept the peace, but was unwill-
ing tocoacede the employees. The one
or-oach-man prescription excluded the
desk force and the stenographers.
With these employees charged up against
the counties from which they We're
named and included in the Il as the
total force to be named for the General
Assembly in the House of Delegates,
the expense account. 50 the economist
claimed, would not be so bad They
might concede this, but more they would
not concede Here the situation rests
as a cloud over the peace program.
Eight engrossing clerks were named
for the House Five Of them were at
work this morning. One, it was said,
had been transferred to the folding
room, another is i'll in a Baltimore hos
pital and the third is enveloped in mys-
terry. No one seems to know anything
about him.
With Senator Smith at Annapolis last
night were Congressman Covington,
Col. Buchanan Schley, EX-State Senator
Marion V. Brewington, State Treasurer
Murray Vandlver and others identified
with politics in Maryland. All of them
were for peace Word had gone out
that Governor Crothers was getting to
feel more and more like a fight each
day. Senator Smith made sure that his
wishes for peace should not slip a cog,
for he notified one of his close personal
friends to come to Annapolis to pass
the word down the line in case he should
be unable to reach here from Washing
ton, where he is looking after his du les
in the Federal Senate He came, how
ever
One of his close political advisors
even urged him to 90 to the extreme of
putting Uncle jim" Dawkins off the
Ways and Means Committee of the
House, upon which he had been voted a
place by the whole House. Mr. Daw-
kins was to be asked to resign. If he
refused, the effort was to be made to
remove him. Senator Smith was not
willing to go so far. He was, however,
strong for peace at any reasonable
price.
In the Senate the remnant of the
"old guard that survived the last
election wears happy, contented look;
the remnant of the new guard is striving
to rub away the wrinkle of disappoint-
ment in order to present a brave front,
and the Legislative goslings are not yet
quite sure how to look and feel for
they have not been able to appreciate
just what happened to them last night
when President Arthur Pue German of
the Senate handed in the committee
assignments.