The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-03-19
TO BRIDGE THE POTOMAC
NEAR BLOOMINGTON
Measure Carrying $4,000 Intro
duCed In The House.
Annapolis, March 18th.

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$50, 900 for the erection of a bridge
across the North Branch of the Poto-
mac river between West Virginia
junction, W. Va, and Luke, in ALLIE
gany county, Md, was introduced in
the House by. Delegate Shartzer. of
Garrett county. today. Mr.. Shartzer
also introduced a companion bill,
calling for an appropriation of $4,000
or as much more as the board of coun-
ty commissioners of Garrett county
care to give for this purpose. The bill
created a commission to handle the fund
and supervise the construction of the
bridge. The commission is to be COM
posed of the members of the boards of
county commissioners of Allegany and
Garrett counties, Maryland and Mineral
county, West Virginia, and George
Warwick, J. Miller and G. Semmes
Hamill, Jr. A secretary to the COM
mission is to be chosen from among the
members who shall receive such com
pensatlon as the commission may de-
termine. 1t is assumed that the State
of West Virginia will appropriate a
similar sum of $50, 900, but it is not
made condition of the Maryland APP
preparation in the bill.
Senator Speicher, of Garrett county,
had been asked to introduce this mea-
sure in the Senate and had the bill pre-
pared, but after comforting with the
chairman of finance and the ways and
means committees decided that it is not
possible to receive a $780, appropn-
alton at this time and that a less amount
will be insufficient for the purpose IN
tended. For these and other reasons
the Senator declined to introduce the
bill and it has now been introduced into
the House. In the bill handed to Sena-
tor Speicher the personel of the com
mission comprised Senators Speicher
and Zihlman and Attorney G. Semmes
Hamill, Jr., of Oakland.
The popular vote idea triumphed
TODAY in the House, though the same
triumph seems to be withheld from
the mass vote principle in nominal
ing candidates for the United States
Senate. The bill on which the tenn
porary temper of the House was dis
played was reported unfavoraDly to
elect the mine inspector instead of
having that official appointed by the
Governor. By vote of 81 to 81, the
House substituted the bill for the I'M
favorable report. If the bill becomes
a law the voters of Alleganv and Gar
rett counties will be called upon to elect
the mine inspector. During the debate
there were crimonious exchanges of
opinions. The charge was made and
denied that the Consolidation
Coal Company controlled the appoint
ment and even controlled the grand
juries of the two counties.
Delegates Harvey and Savage, of
Garrett county, yesterday introduced
two bills providing that "in addition
to any sentence of confinement in the
city Jail of Garrett county which may
be imposed in case of conviction for as
sault. drunkenness, disorderly conduct,
public peace, vagrancy,
petit larceny, or any misdemeanor
where the punishment prescribed by
law shall not exceed three years i'm
prisonment in the penitentiary or house
Of correction by the justice of the peace
having criminal jurisdiction in their
discretion. may also in said sentence
direct that any prisoner over 16 years
Of age, who may have been convicted
Of any of the offenses enumerated here
in, shall be subjected to perform hard
labor tor and during the period of his
on the public roads of
Garrett county or on the public streets
of any Incorporated town of said county;
p provided that during the employment
Of such convict in the public streets of
any Incorporated town, the town au-
thorities so employing such convicts
shall be charged with the expenses
which may attend such employment.
Both bills are practically the same in
text, one repeating and re-enacting
section of chapter 597 of the Acts of
1912, and the other adding new section
to article II of the Code of Public Lo-
cal Laws of Maryland. Both bills
were referred to the Judiciary Com
mittee.
A bill introduced some time ago by
Delegate Shartzer, of Garrett county,
providing for an appropriation of $15,-
coo with which to build water wall at
Kitzmiller and Friendsville. The
Shartzer bill provided for a commission
of five to handle the fund, without
compensation. The commission would
come three from one town and two from
the other, and the town having the
majority could insist upon spending as