Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1912-01-30
REGULARS BACK WATER
Fight to RecOmmit Order For
Opening of Baltimore Ballot
Boxes Comes to Nothing.
HITS AT STENOGRAPHERS.
Senator GOslin Announces That be Win
Vote 10 Remove Them if They do
Not Observe Hours.

a telegram laid before the Senate
by President Price, when that body
met, announce that former Governor
Gillette of California, and Robert
Newton Lynch, representing the Pan
anna Pacific international Exposition
Commission would visit Annapolis on
February l9 and 20 and asked that
the House and Senate meet in Joint
session on the latter date to hear
from these gentlemen of the scope and
Importance of this exposition.
The telegram which was from
Charles c. Moore, president of the
commission was followed by the
adoption of an order authorizing the
President to communicate to the two
gentlemen a welcome and assure them
that the joint session would be held
for their addresses.
The session of the Senate was a
brief one, lasting only half an hour
and during it only a few bills, none
of which were of more than local
Importance, were introduced.
Senator Goslin, however. made
plain that he and the Lee Democrats
and economists intended to follow
up their orders for limiting the
employees of the Senate by insisting
upon good service and the worth of
the States money from those en-
ployed. He complained that the four
general Senate stenographers are not
keeping the full hours assigned them
for duty and served notice that he
would move for the removal of the
present force if they did not live up
to the letter of the Senate's orders.
Completely backing water on the
position they had taken, organization
Democrats in the House today lined
up with the Republicans and Lee
Democrats to recommend to the cleo
tions committee the order to recount
the votes cast for Republican Dele
gates Maltbie, Harrison, Cliff, Parks
and Bean in the last election.
The action was taken on motion of
Delegate Cummings, of Montgomery
county, one of the leaders Of the Lee
Democrats. Delegate Pairo, of Bal
timore city, Republican, seconded the
motion. 1t is believed that the send
ing of the whole proposition back to
the committee means the shelving of
any further attempts to oust the Re-
publieans.
Delegate Cummings, of Montgom-
cry county, agreed to make the mo-
tion, only on condition that recount,
if decided upon, should not cost the
people of the State anything without
the consent of the House. He offer
ed the motion only after a series of
parleys and conferences, in which
the strength of the Republicans and
Lee Democrats became apparent.
1t had been intended that Dele
gate Marbury, of Prince Georges
county, Demoratic floor leader, should
make the motion, but when the Lee
people finally agreed to the purpose,
Delegate Cummings was asked to
make it.
Leading Republicans of the House
declared after the order was recon-
mitted that the organization Demo
Gratis, finding it was impossible to
pass any recount order, had decided to
abandon their efforts without forcing
the issue.
Votes for women will be demanded
at public meeting to be held in the
House of Delegates tonight at s
O'Clock, as the result of an order in
troduced by Delegate Campbell, OF
Baltimore county today and adopted
granting the Equal Suffrage Leagu,
the use of the House of Delegates fol
this purpose.