The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1914-02-20


into the LEGISLATURE on Wednesday,
by request, to prohibit bathing or
swimming within 500 yards Of any
dwelling on Winters Mill dam, at the
Coal Chute.
The Finance Committee Of the Sen
ate on Wednesday favorably reported
the bill to exempt all State, county
and municipal securities from tax
alton, and the measure, after favor
able report was adopted, was ordered
printed for its third reading. The
bill passed the House some days ago
and the presumption j. that it will
went through the House.
Woman Suffrage was handed a
Knockout blow by the delegates on
Wednesday, when they adopted by an
overwhelming majority the unfavor-
able report Of the Constitutional
Amendment Committee on Delegate
McNabb's measure giving the women
the right to vote. Delegate McNabb
made a valiant effort to have his bill
substituted for the report, and thus
get the question before the House on
its merits, but was voted down, "a to
go.
On last Monday night Governor
Goldsborough sent list to the Sen
ate which contained the names OF nj.
Bates Stephens, Democrat, whom he
reappointed as Superintendent Of
Education. a. soon as Dir Stephens
name was read the Senate confirmed
the appointment without reference to
the Committee on Executive Nomina-
tions, thus comforting upon him an
unusual honor. 1t is customaly to
confirm without reference to the
committee the appointment OF an ex-
Senator, but this distinction is rarely
conferred upon men who have never
had seat in the upper house OF the
Legislature.
Recommending an advisory board
Of parole, the indeterminate sentence
system, State control of the Peniten-
tiary and the House OF Correction and
other reforms, the Commission on
Penal Reform yesterday sent its re-
port to Governor Goldsborough. With
the report went seven bills for the
reform, which were introduced in the
Senate by State Senator Hammond,
or Howard county, and will be offer
ell today in the House by Delegate
James a. McQuade, of Baltimore city.
The program Is to have the bills con-
sidered by the Judiciary Committees
after which the one carrying an ap-
prOpriation for the Woman's branch
of the House of Correction probably
will 60 to the Finance Committees.
The oyster question came directly
before the Legislature Thursday Of
last week for the first time this sess-
ion when the committee on Chesa-
peake Bay and Tributaries brought in
favorable report on the Anderson
bill repeating the Haman planting act,
with the Webster-Kemp bill as an
amendment When the first real test
OF strength between the tidewater
counties and Baltimore city, with each
holding recruits from the non-bay sect
tions, came in the House Wednesday
afternoon the foes of oyster culture
showed that they had "a votes, or a
bare majority OF four i'm the lower
branch of the Legislature. This,
however, was without the vote Of
Delegate Jones, OF st. Mary's, who
will Increase the majority by one. The
fight, which ragged for two and half
hours, was waged about the motion
Of Delegate Hopkins, Of Hartford coun-
ty, to have copy of the Senate Price
Campbell bill adopted by the House a.
a substitute for the Oystermen's Pro
tective Association bill, which had
been reported by the Chesapeake Bay
and Tributaries Committee as a COM
mittee amendment to the Anderson
hill