The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1912-03-21

In the rear of the banking room a
Friday night Delegate Weimer's bill
fixing the exemption from attachement
of wages and hire in Garrett county to
rs per cent, allowing 25 per cent. to
remain attachable, was unfavorably re-
ported by the House Judiciary commit
tee, and, in the absence of Mr.. Weimer,
the unfavorable report was adopted,
thus killing the bill. Just what action,
if any, Mr.. Weimer would have taken
had he been present, is not known. and
in his absence, not having left any in
structions with his colleagues, the other
members of the Garrett Delegation did
not know what to do in the matter, and
allowed the motion to adopt the I'M
favorable report to pass.
Senator Zihlman on Thursday intro
duced a bill in the Senate regulating the
sale of cocaine and certain other drugs
and patent medicines in the State.
Delegate Metzger's bill, appropriating
S25, 900 for improvements to the State
Normal School at Frostburg, passed the
House on Thursday, and passed the Sen
ate at Saturday mornings session. 1t
will now be engrossed for the Governor S
signature.
Senator Zihlman's BILL appropriating
a sum of money for the burial of de-
deceased INDECENT soldiers and marines
in the State, passed the House. 1t has
already passed the Senate.
Senator Speicher's bill providing for
the special school tax for Garrett coun-
ty, which has previously passed the
Senate has passed the House and will
be engrossed for the Governor sigma
ture.
Delegate Hustler, of Allegany county,
has introduced two companion bills max
ing valid certain mortgages and similar
papers that had been enormously &C
knowledged in other States, but which
had been made of record in Maryland.
Delegate IIargett, of the Frederick
Delegation, has introduced joint reso-
luton petitioning Congress to pass the
bill offered by the Hon. David J. Lewis,
in the House of Representatives, to re-
imburse the city and citizens of Freder-
lex for damages done during the Civil
War by Federal troops, which was re-
ferred to the Committee on Federal
Relations.
The State wide Plumbing Inspector
bill introduced by Delegate Duckworth,
of Allegany county, has been reported
favorably by the committee on Hygiene.
and has been passed to the third read.
ing file in the House.
Senator Zihlman's "Pawnbroker" bill
for Allegany county passed the Senate
Saturday morning, as did also his bill
| fixing the maximum rate for telephone
service rentals in AlleganY county,
Senator Speicher's bill Incorporating
the Garrett County Railway Company,
was given its third reading and fna
| passage in the Senate Saturday morn.
ing.
Delegate Herpic's bill authorizing the
placing of flags on all public schoo
houses in Allegany county has passed
the House and has gone to the Senate,
where it was referred to committee OF
which Senator Zihlman is chairman.
Municipal ownership of lighting plants
seems to be the order of the day. Dele.
gate Hustler has introduced a bill EN-.
towering the Mayor and Councilmen OF
| Cumberland to establish an electro
lighting plant, and Delegate Wittig, by
request of petition from many bust
ness men and citizens has offered SINH
lar bill to empower the Frostburg City
| Council to establish its own lighting
| system.
1t is practically certain that Bill No.
Al, known as the Infant Eight Hour
Bill, " to which attention was called re.
Gently in this correspondence, will not
be heard from again this session. As
soon as theEreal purport of the measure
became known, together with the dan.
gerous character of it's provisions, pro,
tests began coming IN from all quarters,
with The result that Chairman Wright
of the House committee on Labor, t.
which the bill was referred, told the
Republicans correspondent the Other
day that it had been decided not to take
any action on the bill and therefore, il
! will not even be reported by the com