The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1914-04-24
AT ANNAPOLIS
ANOTHER BATCH SIGNED.
Number Of the Most important Bills
Become Laws.


other large batch of bills, including a
of the most important
measure passed by the Legislature.
Among the \ important measures
acted on were Senator Cooper's bill
to establish an agricultural experiment
station in Caroline county and fdr the
Eastern Shore-a measure in which
he took great interest and which the
people of the Shore are said to greatly
desire, and the Eastern Shore Anti
Shipping Liquor law for which Senator
Cooper and Senator ]. Frank Harper.
of Queen Anne's county. worked in
defatigably. The main Shipping law
affects all counties on the Shore ex-
cept Cecil and a separate bill passed
for that county on the last night of
the session also was signed by the
Governor
Two bills were signed which submit
proposed amendments to the Consti-
tuition, although the signature Of the
Governor Is not necessary to make
these bills valid. They were the bills
submitting the Home Rule and Refer.
endum amendments.
Key Highway Bill Signed.
The bill exempting property holders
along the new Key Highway also was
signed. That measure has been one
OF the hardest fought before the Gov
ernor. City Solicitor Field used his
utmost endeavors to have it vetoed and
large delegations of South Baltimore
business men-among them George N.
Numsen and Walter l.. Denny-ap-
peared several times In advocacy of it.
Mr.. Field was present when the Gov
ernor signed the bill. He was under
stood to have been confident that he
had won his fight for veto until the
bill was called.
Other important city bills signed
were those providing for the addition
al sewerage loan; for amendments to
the General Condemnation law and for
approval by the Board of Estimates of
all city contracts. The much-amended
law relating to tax collections also
was signed.
The Workmen's Compensation act
one of the most important measures
passed in this State in generations
was signed with a pen offered for the
purpose by Senator Hammond. of
Howard county, who took the lead in
getting the measure through the Leg.
1slature. ]. Walter Lord, who was
chairman Of the commission named
by the Governor to prepare a work.
mems compensation bill, also, was
present
Another bill which was signed with
special pen was that creating the
State Tax Commission. Henry F.
Baker, who was chairman of the com.
mission named by the Governor to
study taxation in the State and which
prepared the bill adopted, will receive
that pen.
All three of the health bills-that
dividing the State into 10 sanitary dis
tricts; that providing a system of
sanitary engineering for the preserva.
ton of the purity of running streams.
and that for inspection of factories
and canneries In which foodstuffs are
prepared-were given the signatures
which finally made them law.
Governor Goldsborough signed these
bills with unusual pleasure. The
major one of the three-that dividing
the State into sanitary districts and
putting trained man at the head of
each-substitutes modern and scien-
Of
the Anticipated and Intellectual county
health officer system. The Governors
brother. DR.. Brice W. Goldsborough, OF
Cambridge, was one of the first men
In the State to advocate this legisla-
ton and has been working in it's be-
half for a number of years, devoting
himself especially to the creation of
sentiment among his fellows in the
medical profession.
Senator Maloy came off well with
the signing Of two bills for which he
made really heroic fights and which
would have had the hardest kind of
shedding but for him-the bill increas-
ing the salaries of all judges $1,000 a
year and the bill providing for a gen.
eral survey of the school system in
the State by commission to be named
by the Governor.
The Omnibus Bequest bills were
signed, but the Governor sliced mum.
Der of beneficiaries. In detail, the
cuts were as follows: Baltimore
Orphan Asylum, repair fund of $4,000
eliminated; Friendly Inn Association,
$1,000; Public Athletic League. from
$500 to $4,000; Baltimore Day MUIR
sery, appropriation of $1,000 for 1916
eliminated. that for 1915 remaining:
Day Nursery of Hagerstown, appro-
priation of $500 for 1916 eliminated.
that for 1915 remaining; st. Martins
Day Nursery appropriation of $1,000
for 1916 eliminated, that for 1915 re-
naming; South Baltimore Day MUIR
sery, appropriation of $1,000 for 1915
eliminated that for 1915 remaining: