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

December issue ofzWestem Motor Gar. Pf
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THE MARYLAND LEGISLATURE.
Delegate H. R Wooden of Carroll
county, introduced bill in the House
Wednesday, to increase from $28,O0O
to $4,000 the annual appropriation
for pensions for public teachers. The
increase II wanted in order to pro-
vide pensions for teachers now on
waiting lists for whom there are not
sufficient funds at this time.
Turkey trotting, tangoing and such
means of stepping to music are bann-
ed with fines for their use, as well as
for the wearing of slit skirts and i'm
modest types OF feminine attire are
provided in bill introduced by Dele
gate Snowden, of Montgomery, in the
House. The fines are to be devoted
to State fund to teach young girls
modesty."
"A move to have the Federal Govern
ment appropriate money to buy land
and build a summer White House at
Annapolis. near the aseat OF the Naval
Academy, and within close trolley con-
nection with Washington, was launch
VI Wednesday with joint resolution
offered by Senator Watkins, of Anne
Arundel, in the Senate.
Speaker Trippe offered in the
House the workingmen's compcnsa-
ton bill, drawn bE State Insurance
Commissioner w. Mason Sheehan.
With this measure Ne also put III the
Sheehan bill designed to provide
proper machinery for the organiza-
ton of mutual insurance companies,
i'm which employers imay insure their
risks arising under the compensation
law. The compensation bill provides
compulsory compensation for all haz-
ardous occupations.
Absolutely arbitrary powers in
dealing with corporations is to be Civ
en- the Maryland PQ&lic Service Com
mission if a measure offered by Sena-
tor Mudd, of Charles county, becomes
a law. The bill is so drawn as to give
the Utilities Board absolute power to
revoke the charter of any public ser
vice corporation which Is not, in the
opinion of the Commission, giving eft1-
cient and satisfactory service. This
power is granted without regard to
whether such service would cause q
financial loss to the corporation or
not.
To correct the abuses which arose
In this part or the State under the e1-
listing law and which developed into
a scandal last summer, Senator Ham
mond, OF Howard county, introduced
a bill which wipes out the fine Alto
gether and provides that persons con-
yicted under its provisions shall be
confined in Jail or the House OF Cor
rection for one month. 1t also
authorizes persons under is years OF
age who violate its provisions to be
committed to a reformatory for q
period not exceeding two years. The
existing law authorizes such commit
ments only in cases where the accused
IL under 16 years Of age
A small-sized windfall for the
treasury of Worcester county th1 Ough
a sort Of lien on the Atlantic Ocean
is proposed in a bill which has been
offered i'm the House by Hagan, Of
Senator John Walter Smiths bali
wick. If the measure becomes law.
all non-residents of Maryland who
would play IZaak Walton about Ocean
City or in fact, anywhere along the
Maryland coast and within the mari
time limits of State jurisdiction, must
first take out licenses. These licenses
will cost anywhere from 20 cents up
to 500, according to the kind of fish
ing.
Uniform marriage laws and no fur
ther uniting in Maryland OF couples
who in their own State would be pro-
hibited from becoming man and wife
is the object OF a bill offered by Nc
Intosh, of Baltimore county, in the
House by the. same law lovelorn
couples who, for legal or other reas-
ons, are not allowed to become truly
one i'm Maryland will be barred from
accomplishing their happiness through
a round-trip ticket to Wilmington or
Philadelphia. Maryland would not
recognize the effectiveness or the
ceremony under the bill.
An additional anti-vice bill design
ed to hit the social evil from an en-
tirely new angle was introduced by
Senator Ogden, OF Baltimore city. The
bill provides for the disfranchisement
of all persons convicted Of prostitu-
ton, adultery and the carrying Of con
cealed and deadly weapons. Senator
Ogden's bill provides an amendment
to the State Constitution, and with it
was introduced twin bill giving
women the right to vote, providing
they can read and intelligently con
strue five lines Of the State election
laws to the satisfaction of the regis
tration officials when they apply for
registration.
The Democratic majority Ia holding
a caucus On the State roads question
befogged the situation in
stead of clarifying it, a. was hoped
when the caucus was called There
has been obtained no definite state |
ment of the attitude Of the majority
or the members OF the Legislature. \
Two things, however, appear certain:
First, that the State will not at this
season provide an extra $1,000,000 for
a new Light street bridge in Balti- y
more, and second, that, instead Of the
State Roads Commission gNtting $6,-
O0O, 900 to spend in the nextJtwo years
IL NAV not get more than $4,000 900.