Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1914-02-06
FIGHT IN STATEHOUSE
THE LIE" IS GIVEN
Montgomery People Fall Out, and
a Man is Hit With Mucilage
Pot.
ACCOUNT OF SCHOOL QUESTION
'ighl Recalls Similar One Of Few
Years Back.


Everybody is talking about town
oday OF the fight AZ the State House
ast night Of which Cy Cummings is
aid to have been unwittingly the
ause.
The rumpus took place in the base
nent of the State House last nigh I,
nd Il ended In an innocent by.stand.
cr being hit with mucilage pot.
All the parties eonct rned are resi-
lents of Montgomery county. 0rdi-
iarily they are neighborly, but con-
letting interests broke up their usual
pleasant relations.
IL was oil about schoolhouse which
Delegate Cummings wanted TO locate
in Chevy Chase. lie had introdue ed
bill appropriating $50, 900 for the
1uilding, and when Tacoma, which is
bout eight miles from Chevy Chase,
leard OF the proposition objection
vas raised. Both places are very
lear TO Washington, and until Con-
yress passed law which confined
he use OF the schools in the Capital
the children IN Washington those
IN the outskirts enjoyed the benefits
Of Washington's educational institu-
tons.
Tacoma did not take kindly to the
dsa Of a school in Chevy Chase unless
similar institution was placed in
their town, but made no demonstra-
ton until advised yesterday by some
one that there was TO be a public
Meeting in Annapolis to consider the
Cummings bill. AS a matter Of tact,
an appointment had been made by
some Chevy Chase people to meet the
Montgomery delegation, and, the con-
terence was being held in the rooms
II the Senate Temperance Committee
when the Tacoma aggregation, rein
forced by some residents of Wheaton,
another suburb, put in an appearance.
an hands were admitted TO the
meeting then under way and argu.
ments followed. TIE Tacoma people
demanded they be also favored with a
schoolhouBe, and the slogan, 1.-TWO or
none, was adopted and frequently
used. The debate waxed warm and
during heated period Ashby Leavel,
IT Chevy Chase, intimated that a GER
tain ,esident of Tacoma he'd misin-
formed his neighbors about the meet
ing. Very promptly Harry N. Martin,
Of Tacoma, sprang TO his feet and call
ed Leavel liar. Without demanding
proof the Chevy Chase man reached
for a heavy paste pct on a table near
b e. cd tI~.r~ q - Mnwtsr ia. -
ter was quick 10 duck. however, and
the pot struck A. II. Dowl, anothe r
racoam man, on the side Of the head,
cutting a deep cash.
Calls for police rang through the
corridors, and 10 a twinkling the
basement was crowded with mem
btrs and employees. One excited in
dividual hurried upstairs, and, meet
ing Senator Maloy, asked for a police :
man. In joking way, MalOy, who
knew nothing OF the fracas, said he
was an officer, whereupon the man
caught him by the arm and started
to drag him down stairs,
MEANWHILE the excitement below
increased, and so did the crowd. and
his friends found il difficult to carry
Dowl, who was covered with blood,
out of the building He was fnslly
conducted 10 a Doctors Office, whe r.
his wound was sewed up, and grad
ually the excitement abated. Up to
this time no arrests have been made
This fight recalls one of few
years ago when a similar one tool
place at the State House, the com
batants being Baltimore county del
egate Of the Legislature and an out
slider. Several fistcufFs we're passed
but nc serious injury resulted.