The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1914-02-05
SEN. SPE|CHER's COUNTY,
WIDE BILL PASSED SENATE
BY A Unanimous Vote tuesday After
noon-NoW In House.
ANNAPOLIS, Nd, Feb,


went through on Tuesday afternoon by
unanimous vote and the measure is
now in the hands of the House. lndica-
tons point to the local option measure
meeting obstacles IN the latter body as
the temperance sentiment there is not
as strong as in the Senate. The bill on
its first reading in the House will be
sent to the Temperance Committee
under a previous ruling of Speaker
Trippe regarding a similar measure. and
the regulation number of days will be
taken up by the committee before
report is made Then the latter will
probably be unfavorable.
The members of the Garrett delega-
ton in the House will have to work to-
gether for the measure if favorable
action is to be obtained. AS has already
been explained the bill is of a most
drastic nature and the liquor interests
feel that the passage of one bill of its
kind will be but the beginning of similar
legislation for the several other counties
which may sweep through the state
like a windstorm. Senator Speicher
has also advanced to the third reading
file another temperance bill which
affects his home district alone and which
prohibits the sale of liquor within a
stated area.
The Garrett Senator has declared
that he intends to put the countrywide
measure through the Assembly if it
takes every ounce of his legislative
powers and the manner in which he is
tackling the job indicates that he pro-
poses to make good his word.
While interested in temperance
legislation Senator Speicher is not per-
hitting other interests of the county to
suffer. Yesterday he introduced a bill
asking half a millions dollars from the
state for an accident hospital to be
erected in Oakland and several days
previously he introduced a measure
providing for extension of the corporate
limits of Oakland.
Senator Zihlman, of Allegany county
is pushing legislation advantageous to
the miners of both his own and Garrett
county. He has two chief bills along
that score. One provides that mine
owners and operators shall sharpen and
keep in shape the tools of the miners
and the other that the miners shall be
paid for their services in performing all
classes of dead work" within the
pockets such as laying additional tracks,
erecting special timbering, bailing of
water and other such work as is not
directly connected with the actual
mining of coal. For these services the
man shall be paid at the same rate as if
they were mining.
Delegate Savage's bill for a poor
farm for Garrett is creating much local
interest. The bill provides that the
County Commissioners and committee
of ten other persons, who are named in
the act. shall with sum of from s., 600
to $40, 600 taken from the 1914 levy buy
farm of from 100 to 300 acres and
erect all necessary buildings and pur-
chase the necessary equipment for the
plant. All inmates of the county jail
shall work out their fines or terms of
Imprisonment on the farm when physi-
cally able to do so.
Delegate Starters bill raising the
age when girls may marry without the
consent of their parents from l6 to IS
years is in the hands of the Judiciary
Committee. Mr.. Shartzer has followed
the lead of Senator Speicher and has
offered an cigarette bill as we'll as sew
eral pieces Iof unimportant legislation.
Mr. Savage also has introduced bill
to change the requirements for voters
in Garrett county who have not been of
long residence in the county.
A bill which is of general interest to
the counties is the measure introduced
Tuesday by Senator Beck changing the
time for primary elections from early
fall to late spring or early summer.
His bill changes the date of the prima-
ries on other than presidential years
from September to not later than the
second Monday in June and in presiden-
tIal years to the first Monday in May.
Mr.. Beck says the changes are needed
so that the farmers will not be running
around the country attending political
meetings during the summer months.
Both houses of the legislature have
now gotten well into their stride and
much work is being accomplished. The
session is especially noticeable, how
ever, through the lack of debates and
fights which have marked other sessions
The present quietness, however, is be-
lieved to be but forerunner of bitter
storm which will break during the last
weeks of the session.
Senator Speicher's Local Option
Bill will be severely attacked in the
House, where it will be referred to
the Committee on Temperance. Mr..
w. j Miller, prominent distiller and
liquor dealor of Garrett county, spent
last week here, and he is expected to
return today, to continue his fight on
the bill. He claims to have assur-
ance from the Baltimore City Delega-