The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1916-03-04
THE MARYLAND
LEGISLATURE

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| Thursday.
Senator Ogden, on Monday, intro
duced bill to revise the Corporation
law of Maryland.
On Monday Senator Collier intro
duced bill regulating sale of seeds
| in State for agricultural purposes and
| providing penalties.
Senator Ogden offered resolution
authorizing appropriation of $3.50 to
| trustees of Goucher College to pro-
vide for 16 tuition scholarships.
Delegate Campbell's bill to provide
| for payment of expense of interment
of honorebly discharged soldiers and
sailors of 1861-1865, was favorably
| reported and passed in the House on
| Thursday.
A favorable report was received in
| the House on Senator Cooper's bill to
! require Board of Public Works to ad-
vertise for sealed proposals to sell
States interest in internal improve
ments for 80 instead of 60 days, and
| bill passed to third reading on Mon
day.
President Campbell on Monday Of
fered resolution appropriating
$4,000 a year. for each of the next
two years, TO state Board of Agri-
| culture.
Inc license fees proposed by bill
int oddcea Monday by Senator Legg
for rne protection of fish are as fol-
| lows: Ol pound nets, So each; on
| float or Atake gill nets 600 feet in
| length or under, 81. For every addi-
tional 100 feet or fraction thereof, 25
| cents. On skirt nets, 81; on Fyke
| net head, weir or similar fixed device,
| $1O0. On haul seins operated by
motorboats not exceeding five horse
power or by hand for market or profit,
| So each. On each drift haul net at
| tended by motorboat exceeding five
horse power, 500. No steamboat is to
be allowed to fish such net. On each
haul seine hauled by windlass with
horse or mule power or other power
than hand or steam, $40. On each haul
seine operated by steam power, $50.
The determined efforts of the men,
| bers Of both Houses from the dry
counties, principally those on the Eas-
! tern Shore, to pass the Statewide ref
erendum Prohibition bill without the
amendment eXempting BaltimoreCity,
| has provoked a bitter conflict. The
announcement on Tuesday that Gov
| ernor Harrington was neutral" in the
fight was great disappointment to
Baltimore City Senators and Dele
gates.
The House, late Wednesday after
| noon, passed the Constitutional
Amendment providing for budget
| system for the State by vote of 81
to 8. The amendment, as passed by
the House, is the Goodnow commits
| sion draft, without any change what
ever. The bill was passed by the Sen
ate Thursday and went to the Confer
| ence Committee
The Senate on Wednesday after
noon, confirmed the appointment of
| Henry M. Warfeld to be Adjutant
| General, and there was no opposition
| from anybody. General Warfield will
assume his duties of office at an early
| date. He served in the same capacity
curing the Crothers administration.
Delegate James (by request) on
Wednesday introduced a bill to re-
| quire the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
| to place fiagmen at certain gates and
| crossings in Cecil county.
Senator Williams bills to authorize
the Cecil County Commissioners to
codify and print public local laws of
| Maryland relating to Cecil County,
| and to authorize the Clerk of Cecil
County Circuit Court to have trans
| cribed wornout land records of the
| county, received their first reading in
| the House on Wednesday. His bill
| to regulate the election and term of
| office of Cecil County Commissioners
also received it's first reading il the
House.
Delegate Bouchelle's bill ar'ood'~g
the game laws for Cecil County has
passed the House.
Delegate James bill (by request) to
provide for water supply and other
| improvements to town of Rising Sun
passed in the House on "Wednesday.
On Wednesday Senator Williams in
troduced three bills as follows: Au-
thorizing trustees for the Brick Meet
ing House lot in Cecil county to lease
ground providing for bond issue of
ton ;(by request) amending the law re-
lating to the town of Elkton. in Cecil
county.
Delegate James on Thursday intro
duced a bill to direct the State Roads
COMMISSION 10 construct lncOmpleUeu
gaps in Cecil county roads.
Delegate Bouchelle's bill to provide
for part of taxes of Chesapeake City
to be applied to maintenance of Vol
unteer Fire Company, of that town,
passed in the House on Thursday.
Both Houses of the General Assem-
bly, resumed the fight on the State
wide Prohibition bill. Thursday even
ing, devoting the entire evening to it.
In the House Delegate Lee withdrew
his amendment providing for separ-
ate vote for Baltimore city in order
to allow Delegate Mcintosh to offer an
amendment providing for local op-
ton in all the counties now "wet," and
the House fight was made along that
line, The Senate fight was alone the
original lines of the Norris amend
ment to give Baltimore separate
vote. Both Houses adjourned near
midnight without taking a vote. The
House made the bill the special order
for neXt TueSday but +ba Cnuata ,,ro