Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-05-04
LEGISLATIVE WORK OF
LORDS day ALLIANCE
The Beneficial Result of State Wide
Campaign Due to Generous
Cooperation of DR.. Kelly.
THE DEFEAT OF 7 BILLS.
Determined Efforts to Modify Sunday
Law Outwitted and Defeated.

DaN Alllance ana good work IN its de
termined efforts to combat the laws in
troduced to modify Maryland's Sunday
Law
The better class OF people will al
ways show their LOYALTY when they
know the facts concerning the Amer
lean Sabbath, and the attempt to desc.
crate ami gecularize the one day in
seven set apart to worship God. and for
a day of rest.
The Lords Day Alliance secured tn
defat of seven bills before the Legisla-
ture to seculariZe the Christian Sab
bath. and and they did this without a
single delegation being brought here
1t is generally known and appreciated
that the beneficial results CT the State
wide campaign were made possible by
the generous cooperation of Or. How
ard A. Kelly, of Baltimore
The General Assembly of Maryland
hail seven bills before it proposing to
modify our Sunday law, as follows
l. The Griebel and Distler bills. le-
gelzing the general delivery of ice in
Baltimore city on the Lords Day. The
Legislature protected tie hard worked
ice men in their right 20 Sunday as a
rest day by defeating both bills.
,. The Herpich bill, legalizing Sun
day selling of certain luXuries by four
classes Cf dealers. was introduced as
Statewide measure. Every political
unit in the State askol to lie exempted
except Talbot and Allegany counties.
BY Monday, March 27, it was quite evi-
dent that the Talbot delegation had
heard from the folks at home" and
they asked to nave Talbot exempted.
Herpich's bill then ceased to be State
wide and became local applying only
Allegany county with Delegate Smith
against it, The House Judiciary Com
mittee. through Chairman Hall, made
an unfavorable report MIR Herpich
moved to substitute the bill for the IN
favorable report.
The following members voted to US
tain Chairman Halls report. Messrs.
Speaker .Buckler, Willis, Atwell, Cox
Jones, Milbourne, Byrn Brohawn, An
derson James. Balderston, Wimbrow,
Delaplane, Molesworth. Rice. Baker
Ward, (of Harford), Wright, Jackson
Fooks. Antoinie, Curry, Prinz, Hall.
Kelly Lee. McCusker. McDonough, Al
len. Burton. (of Baltimore city), Stout
fer Strife, Gardiner, Waters, Snith
Ely. Kephart, Leatherwood, Wooden
Long. Holloway. Shockley, Warl (of
Wicomico). Fox. (of Garrett), Ha 5den
and ShaTtZer.
Those who voted TO substitute the
Herpich bill were: Messrs. II. Buck
Ter Uric, Hopkins, Linthicum, Solley,
Brazier. Bryant, Given. Mcintosh, r eioh,
Wellbrenner, Posey, Mitchell Fisher,
(of Prince George), Metzerott. Bian-
foIh, Dudley. Stevens, Corddry, Flock,
Tydnigs, Distler, Duke Dempsey,
Brooke. Brown, Campbell, Fisher 20;
| Allegany) Green. Herpich.
| Calvert, Caroline. Carroll, Garrett
an Wicomico counties voted solidly
against the Herpich bill, while Balti-
| more Charles and Queen Anne counties
voted solidly to substitute the Herpich
| bill. All delegates from Dorchester
| Cecil, Howard and Somerset counties
| voting were against the bill. NOtwith-
! standing the fact that Leaders Bryant
| and Metzerott voted to substitute the
Herpich bill, yet the majority of the
| delegates followed the lead of Speake,
Laird ami Chairman Hall nddefeat-
ed substitution by vote of As to 3S.
| 3.Delegate Duke. of Baltimore, elect
ed to the Legislature from the First
| Legislative District, but living in the
| Third. introduced three bills to mod
| ify our Sunday law, but ali three were
| defeated They were as follows,
| (al \ bill to license Sunday Nov
| ing Pictures. The Ways and Means
| Committee. after hearing. ordered an
| unfavorable report on Tuesday, March
| 2S. but it was never reported TO the
| House of Delegates. An interesting
| fact is that on March so. Chairman Og-
| den. of the Senate judiciary, reported
| favorably identically the same bill
| which quietly made its way until il
| passed the Senate April l. by yea and
| nay vote. with every one of the p re
| corded as voting for it,
| The general secretary of the Lord 5
| Day Alliance discovered the surrepti-
| tions passage by the Senate of this
| Sunday Moving Picture Bill late Sat
| urday afternoon. April l, reported this
! fact TO a number of the Senators who
| were indignant at what had been done
1t was agreed that a message should
be sent TO the House of Delegates ask
| ing for the return of Senator Ogden's
| Bill No Cos. This message was intro
| duced by Senator Warfield late Satur-
day night, and assented 10 by the Sen
| ate without dissenting vote. Speaker
| Laird. before the receipt of the Senate
| message asking for its return. had re.
| ferred this bill TO the House Judiciary
Committee. where it remained until the
end of the session. Thus died this leg
islative snake" Notwithstanding an
active lobby did its utmost to get il
out of the committee.