Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1912-01-06
REPEAL BILL ADVANCED
House in Weekend Session Puts
New Election Law on Third
Reading File This Morn
ing.
ADJOURNS TO MONDAY.
Sessions viii be Resumed at Ten
O'clock on Monday in House And
at s at Night In Senate.

Strict party lines were drawn in
the House of Delegates this morn
ing when, by party vote, the
Democrats passed the Bosley substi-
tute for the Wilson law TO its third
reading
A favorble report by the majority
of the Committee on Elections was
supplemented by minority report
of the two Republican members of
the committee, Warburton, of Cecil
county and Hargett, of Frederick,
which proposed as a substitute for
the Bcsley bill the Statewide meas.
ure proposed by the Baltimore Reform
League.
Following the reading of the two
reports Maltbie of Baltimore city.
Republican, moved the substitution
Of the minority report for the major
ty and the fight began.
1t had been the intention of the
House to convene this morning at 10
o'clock, but it was late in doing so.
Shortly before the session. Speaker
lrippe declared that he would an
nounce the standing committees Of
the House next Thursday. 1t is ex-
pected that a fight will develop on
these committee assignments, which
may go so far as to take the naming
II these committees from the hands of
| the Speaker, as was done in Con-
Tress. The progressives are deter
mined to be given proper recognition.
and thus far they have assumed that
the Speaker S attitude is antagonistic.
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rulings last Thursday in the econmv
fight, when the progressives, backed
by the Republicans, almost succeed
ed in overruling him.
In making his motion to substitute
the minority report of the Com
ittee on Elections, Mr.. Maltbie.
making his maiden speech" re-
cited personal experience in at
tempting to register when he first
came to Maryland. He said he was
refused because he was a student.
He then called attention to the i'm
provements made by the present law
of Baltimore city, which under the
Reform League Bill, would be State
wide.
1--WE do not care what law YOU
pass, he said, Just so it is uniform
for the entire State. If this proposed
bill of the majority has any merit in
being different from the law in the
rest of the State, it must be because
1t gives an advantage to some one.
If it gives it to anyone, it will be to
the Republican party for the next
four years.
THE principal objection to this
majority bill is its refusal to allow
any publication in Maryland news
papers of facsimile copies of the bal
lots. But what is to prevent the pub
hcation of them in Washington pa
pers and the Washington papers mail
ed back to the voters of MARYLAND. "
In replying to Mr.. Maltbie, Mr..
Marbury, of Prince Georges, said
that he would like to see the major
ity bill applied to the whole State.
He said the Democrats did not need
sample ballots. He closed by moving
the previous question, but with
drawing it to allow Mr.. Metzwell,
Republican, of Prince Georges, to
speak. Mr.. Metzwell's speech was
largely along the line of Mr.. Malt
bie's, and he added that though the
Democrats claimed not to need sam
pie ballots, they circulated thousands
of them in the last election. He said
the majority bill was aimed at the
negroes. He declared that the pro-
posed bill was more trickery than the
Wilson law.
Mr.. Cummings, of Montgomery,
NOV ed the previous question, but on
request of Mr.. Dawkins, Democrat, of
Baltimore city, withdrew it. The
debate had grown more and more DO
litical in character. and Mr.. Dawkins
recalled the stirring reconstruction
days after the war. He then raised
the cry of negro domination.
"The negroes owe to the Republi-
cans the enfranchisement which
should never have been given them.
and God knows they are loyal. They
stand pat now just as they did when
they cast their vote by Lincoln s
nose.
Mr.. Marbury moved the previous
question, which was carried. The
vote on the motion to substitute the
minority report for the majority was
Ayes, 38, nays, 55. The majority
report was adopted by viva voce vote.
The Lee amendment to the Pri
mary Bill then passed to its third
reading and the House adjourned unit
Monday at 2 o'clock.
Just before the session opened
Speaker Trippe, assisted by Georg,
Lewis, stood some time on the ros
trum counting noses" in ords sr t.
learn if sufficient number of Demo
Gratis were on hand to pass the bill.
Following this Rev. Earle Malo,
Of Cecil county, uncle of State Sena
tor Maloy, of Baltimore city, an
chaplain of the Senate, opened tn