Evening journal., 1914-04-07
DROUGHT ON THE
eastern Shore
Gallon a Month Bill Fol
Nine Maryland Counties
Through
CECIL COUNTY
NOT INCLUDED

ANNAfODio, mQ.s April t-SenA
tor Cooper, of Caroline county, who
has been the aggressive leader Ia
fighting for the temperance legisla.
ton demanded by his county-and the
whole Eastern Shore. in fact-fnal.
ly Won his battle yesterday in the
Senate.
That branch concurrcd in the Ninol
County bill, as II was amended iu
the House by exempting Cecil county,
and then passed a bill applying the
principles of the Nine-County bill "a
Cecil and sent il over TO the House
Briefly, the Nine-County bill provides
that a person living IN any Of the
nine Eastern Shore counties may
bring In or have shipped to himself
only one gallon Of liquor or six dozen
bottles Of beer in a month.
The real battle waged by Senator
Cooper yesterday was to avoid the
danger that the whole nine-county
bill would be lost for lack OF time
by reason of the passage of the bill
between the House in agreeing upor
amendments. The bill had beer
amended in the House by the exemp.
tion of Cecil county and sent bach
TO the Senate for concurrence in the
amendment.
In the meantime Cecil counts
agreed to come in under inc bill and
there was an effort in The Senate
to send It back to the House and
let that body add Cecil. Senator
Cooper was afraid that would lose ths
whole bill in the rush and insisted
that the bill as amended and passed
by the House be concurred IN by the
Senate and that a separate bill be
passed for Cecil county His idea
was that it was better TO take
chance on losing IN the rush a bill
for one county than for eight, and af-
ter stiff fight the Senate backed
/ him up.
This temperance legislation for the
/ Eastern Shore arises largely from the
evils which have crept in by reason Of
the strict anti-shipping laws in Del
aware. II has come TO be the GUS
! tom for DelaWareans to drive into
4 Maryland and get liquor shipped q
! them there. This made parts of the
I Eastern Shore dumping grounds foI
/ liquor intended for Delawareans and
the counties bordering on Delaware
suffered an almost intolerable nuis4
ance.
Caroline county. probbaly. has beer
the worst sufferer. and early In the
session Senator Cooper introduced
what had been looked upon as tho
regulation" anti-shipping law; thai
Is, one 70 limit a man to ship one
gallon a day He became convinced
however, that such a bill would not
/ be as effectual as desired and that
by applying II only to Caroline county
he might throw upon other adjoining
counties the burden which Caroline
desired TO escape with respect to Dela-
ware, that of being a receiving joint
for liquor intended for people living
in territory where strict laws wers
in force.
Il was then that he turned TO the
plan Of having all nine OF the
Eastern Shore counties unite In a
stringent law that would apply evenly
to al and would put the whole Nary
land peninsula upon a uniform basis
as to temperance Legislation. Ho
took the lead in bringing the Eastern
Shore Senators together on the Nino-
County bill AS already stated, that
bill was passed IN the Senate and
sent over to the House, where, as
stated also, Cecil county was cxempt-
ed. The passage Of the amended
Nine-County bill in the Senate, with
the passage also of the special bill
along the same lines for Cecil county,
puts the matter back upon its original
basis and wins the fight