Middletown transcript., 1914-04-25
AT ANNAPOLIS
ANOTHER BATCH SIGNED.
Number Of the Most important Bills
Become Laws.

| uuuDS4 VI Tic uOSI 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 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 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.
NSy 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 a 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 a 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-substitute a modern and scien-
ti1c 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 its be- |
half for a number of years, devoting
himself especially to the creation Of |
sentiment among his fellows in the
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
but for him-the bill increas-
ing the salaries of all judges 81, 900 a
year and the bill providing for a gen.
eral survey of the school system in
the State by a commission to be named
by the Governor.
The Omnibus Bequest bills were
signed, but the Governor sliced a num-
Der of benefciaries. In detail, the
cuts were as follows Baltimore
Orphan Asylum, repair fund Of $4,000
Friendly Inn Association,
$1,000; Public Athletic League, from
S6,5O0 to $4,000; Baltimore Day Nur-
sery, appropriation of $500 for 1916
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 1915 eliminated, that for 1915 re-
South Baltimore Day Nur-
sery, appropriation of $1,000 for 1915
that for 1915 remaining;
Maryland Society for the Protection of
Children, appropriation of $1,500 for
both years eliminated ChiIdren's
School of Baltimore City, ap-
of $4,000 reduced to $4,000
FOR both years; Hospital for Relief Of
and Deformed Children, ap-
reduced from $4,000 to
10000, and Western Maryland Col
ege, appropriation reduced from $751;
300 to $4,000.
Finally, the Governor signed the bill
creating the Board of Advisory Parole,
n which are named Charles R. Reid,
If Baltimore city; Samuel ]. Twilley,
If Pocomoke City, and DR.. John
Wade, of Washington county The
signing of this bill leaves the bill pro-
7iding the Board of Prison Control as
practically the only important measure