Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1912-02-06
STATE HOUSE NEWS
Anderson of the Anti-SaIoon
League Gets a Burning Letter
From Speaker Trippe'
OYSTERS IN THE HOUSE.
Fight Over Joint Legislation for POtO-
mac Will Hold Members Late
This Afternoon.

The fight over the passage of the
bill providing for joint Jurisdiction
between Maryland and Virginia over
the waters of the Potomac River and
incidentally making possible some of
the things which friends of the Ha-
man oyster law want, is on in the
House of Delegates Chamber this aft
| ernoon.
Made the special order for today.
when it was sent to its third reading
| file in the House last week, the bill
did not come up until after 2 o'clock
this afternoon and with its opponents
determined to delay its passage and
fight ii as long as possible. the meas
ure brought on warm scrap.
Its position is dangerous, because of
the fact that after being passed in
Maryland, it must be ratified by the
Virginia General Assembly before
that body adjourned this month.
William H. Anderson, superinten-
dent of the Anti-Saloon League, was
putin the Ananias Club and branded
as ga common scold and public nui-
sance" in a hot letter sent him TODAY
by James McC. Trippe, Speaker of
the House of Delegates. The letter
was in reply to communication from
Mr.. Anderson, demanding that the
Speaker compel Chairman Newman.
of the Temperance Committee, to hold
a hearing on the Local Option Bill
this week, ard accusing the Speaker
OF packing the commmitte against
local option.
Mr.. Anderson had followed this let
ter up with letters to the Individual
members, telling them THAT if the
Speaker did not show fair play to the
advocates of the Local Option Bill,
the local option delegates in the House
would be justified in taking strenuous
steps against the Speaker.
When shown the Speakers reply,
Mr.. Anderson said: Il don't think
the letter needs much comment. 1t is
its own antidote. I am perfectly sat
isfied to have the hearings called as
he suggests in this letter, provided
we are given, after all this DELAY. at
least two days notice. If Chairman
Newman calls the hearing for tomor-
row, it will only be of a piece with
the manner in which we have been
treated thus far
That an occurrence fsimilar to the
one of few weeks ago when the pass
age Of the Primary Election Bill is
believed to have wiped some of the
counts in the indictments of election
officials shall be made impossible in
the future, Senator Malroy offered to-
day measure that will, he believes,
relieve the situation. j. Mercer
Garnett prepared the bill
Women favoring the passage of
the Woman Suffrage Amendment
will have another opportunity to be
heard on February IS, under an or
der passed in the House today, when
the Equal Suffrage League will
hold pubic meeting in the House
Chamber.
The two bills aimed at the extor-
tionate practices of furniture loan
sharks in Baltimore were formally
introduced in the House of Delegates
today by Delegate William H. Malt
bic, of Baltimore city.
The Governor. Acknowledgement
and Members of the Legislature were
invited today to visit the Fifth Regi-
ment Armory, Baltimore, on February
l6 for an inspection of the building.
They will be entertained at luncheon.
Lieut.. Colonel John Hinkley, Can't.
S. Johnson Poe and Quartermaster
James E. Goodwin came to Annapolis
today to invite the guests.