The citizen., 1914-04-24
AT ANNAPOLIS
ANOTHER BATCH SIGNED.
Number OF the Most Important Bills
Become Laws.

Among the important measures
acted on were Senator Cooper's bill
to establish an agricultural experiment
station in Caroline county and for 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 j. 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 1t 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 pen offered for the
| purpose by Senator Hammond, of
Howard county, who took the lead in
| getting the measure through the Leg.
islature. ]. 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
a 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 system OF
sanitary engineering for the preserva.
tion 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-
tific system of public sanitation for
| the antiquated 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-
tion and has been working in it's be-
half for 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 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 a num-
ber 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
| $4,000 to $4,000 Baltimore Day Nur-
sery, appropriation of $500 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 Nur-
sery, appropriation of $500 for 1918
eliminated, that for 1915 remaining:
Maryland Society for the Protection OF
Children. appropriation of $500 for
both years eliminated; Children's
Hospital School of Baltimore City, ap-
| nrnnriat tion of x2 000 redunad IN &6 000