Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1912-01-08
POMP ON WEDNESDAY
Inauguration Of Governor Elect
GOldsbOrOugh to be a Notable
Event.
STIRRING DAYS ARE AHEAD.
Present Session Of Maryland Legislature
Promises to be Lively 0as-Both
Houses Affected.

For the first time in twelve years a
Republican governor will be inauCu-
rated here on Wednesday. The cere-
monies attending the taking of the
oath Of Office by Phillips Lee Colds
! borough will be the most elaborate in
| half a century.
The formal notification by Joint
| committee Of the Senate and Housewife
! take place at the Rennert, Baltimore,
/ tomorrow evening. The Governor
/ elect will leave Baltimore en- a special
train next Wednesday morning, and
on arrival at the State Capital will be
met by an escort of the MARYLAND
| National Guard, under the command
of Rrig. General Macklin, and escort
! ed to the Executive Mansion, where
he will be received by Governor
Crothers and party.
Shortly before noon Governor-elect
Goldsborough, escorted by Governor
! Crotherswll come to the State House.
where at noon Mr.. Goldshorough will
take the oath of office in the historic
Senate Chamber, the same room in
which George Washington resi- Ened his
commission as commander-in-chie of
the American army in 1888. The new
governor will then deliver his inaugu-
raj address from the steps of the State
House. At its conclusion the military
and civic parade will be formed and
Governor Goldsborough escorted to
the Executive Mansion.
Signs are not lacking that the pres
| ent session of the Legislature will
be a stormy, says the Baltimore cor
respondent to the Washington Star.
| The first three days gave evidence
that the progressive De nocrats and
the Republicans will work together
for economy and election law re-
forms. This was made evident in
the Senate, where the Republicans
swung into line with Senator Lee
and his followers and took the power
Of appointing employees from Presi-
| dent Price.
In the House the defeated Demo-
cratic candidate for Speaker, Henry
A. Osborn, Of Hartford county,is lead
ing the progressives, and has formed
a coalition with the Republican me NJ
bers already to secure the passage of
a resolution to have the employees Of
the House selected by that body. This
| economy fight, which started in the
House last Thursday evening, will be
resumed today when the committee
on organization makes its report.
This committee met this morning
at the Eutaw House in Baltimore. The
progressive element on the committee
is not large and they will have little
or no say in the framing of the re-
| port, which, it is expected, will name
a large list of employees. The real
fight, however, will start when the
| committee makes its report to the
house tonight. The Osborn resolution
has been safely shelved, because the
committee on rules, to which il has
been referred, has not been appointed
and probably will not be, until after
the committee on organization makes
it's report. Osborn, it is expected.
will oppose the adoption of the report.
and will have the support of the pro-
gress!ve Democrats and the Republi-
cans in his fight.
The effort made by the House pro-
| gressives, headed by Osborn and CIV
Cummings, of Montgomery county. to
have the economy resolution adopted
was almost phenomenal, the vote on
sustaining the Speakers ruling that
the resolution should go to a commit.
tee being forty-nine to forty-eight.
Speaker Trippe being saved by the
vote of one Republican, Metzger. OF
Allegany, who it had been expected
would vote with his fellow-Republ
cans and the progressives.
The new election bill for the Wills II
counties was passed by the Senate anC
is now before the House. The bill pro
vides for ten counties on the Eastern
Shore and in Southern Maryland. 1t,
provisions include alphabetical ar
rangement of the names of the candi
dies under each group of officers; uni
form lines between each name on tn
ballot; elimination of all trick fea
lures and prohibition against the dis
tribution of sample or fac-simile bal
lots and the use of stencils. The bill
will have to take its regular course il
the House, as the Democrats have no
a sufficient majority to suspend tn
rules, but it is expected that the bil
will be passed and become a law be
. fore Governor Crothers' term wi