Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1916-03-10
Annapolis Gleanings.

hisht' ny vote OF 81 to AT, passed tn,
Mcintosh amendment to the Prohibition
bill.
The Mcintosh amendment is in effect ,
compulsory vote on prohibition; not State
wide. but by wet" units. Baltimore CITY
Baltimore county, Washington county, AL
lesany county. Frederick county, Havre d.
Grace. Ellicott City. Annapolis and part.
OF the Fifth district of Anne Arundel coun.
ty, it is provided. shall vote as units to
decide the question in their respective
localities. The balance of the State. all
dry. is to stay as it is.
The victory in the House was made DOS
sible by the fair-mindedness and nerve Of
number of members who come from the
dry counties and who are themselves in
favor OF prohibition and temperance.
Speaker Laird and Delegates Gardner
and Waters voted for the amendment.
Delegate Brooke voted against it.
Mr.. Gardner, in explaining his vote, de-
clared that he had promised his people to
vote for Statewide prohibition and would
have done so but that Dr. Hare had per-
sonally told him that he had agreed upon
separate vote for Baltimore city.
IF Baltimore city" said Mr.. Gardner,
lis to have separate vote and be given
the right to decide the question locally, |
think it only fair and just that Baltimore
county and the other wet territories of the
State should have the same right. | be-
lieve that this amendment is more just
and fair than to give Baltimore city only
the power to decide the question there"
Mr.. Paul Y. Waters, in explaining his
vote, said:
Nov, some Of my friends are insisting
and trying to make me believe that the
people of my county think this bill, by
which the people of the whole State shall
vote next November as to whether or not
the sale of intoxicants shall be prohibited
by law everywhere in the whole State. is
fair. Mr.. Speaker. do not believe it.
do know that they do not want and will
not tolerate a saloon within our borders.
We have been dry for many years and
hope and believe that the time will never
come when it will be possible to lawfully
purchase liquor in Montgomery. If any
such danger should ever threaten, shall
be found fighting it with all my strength.
Now. this bill seeks to give the people
of each police unit the power to say whether
or not liquor shall be sold in any police
unit. Unless at least a majority of the
people of each police unit favors a sump-
tuary law it cannot be enforced and condi-
tons following its passage are always
worse than before, involving the loss of
revenue and legal taxes, besides breeding
utter contempt Of law.
This year not only an overwhelming
majority of the business interest of every
kind in Baltimore city. but large delega-
tons representing the the best citizens in
every walk of life, have either come or
sent their representatives to this Leeisla-
ture protesting against Statewide vote
including Baltimore. and | believe we
should assume that the representatives of
that city know what is best for the COM
mercial needs and moral welfare of their
own city.
Upon this proposition, of home rule
and the square deal. am willing to 60
before my people for their verdict on my
position"
Following the adoption of the Mcintosh
amendment. DR.. Hare gave out a statement
in which he declared that the amendment
is absolutely unsatisfactory to his people
and that they would prefer no bill at all.
In reply to DR.. Hare's statement, Speaker
Laird says:
Il do not know of any one Of those
who had intended to vote for the original
bill who would have deserted it on a roll
call. and the assertion that those of them
who voted for the amendment violated
their pledges is unjust and untrue. They
simply exercised the right of choice between
what DR.. Hare had agreed to do and what
their judgment told them was the just and
fair thing to do. do not believe that any
OF them were influenced by desire to
square themselves with their people back
home. They did not consider this neces-
sary after DR.. Hare himself was ready, &C.
cordine to their information, to desert the
measure upon which he had declared he
would stand or fall.
The Senate will probably make this
amendment the special order for today.
Mr.. Jones-An Act authorizing and d.
recting the County Commissioners of Mont
gomery County to issue bonds to an amount
not to exceed twenty thousand dollars
100000. for the purpose of building,
improving and relocating the public road
from the State road at Jacksonville known
as the Poolesvile road, to the corporate
limits Of Poolesville. in said Montgomery
County. for distance of four miles, more
or less, provided that certain donations be
made, as hereinafter provided. to the said
County Commissioners to be applied by
them for the purposes herein.
That the said County Commissioners
shall cause to be levied upon and collected
from the taxable property of the Third
Election District Of said county an addi-
tional tax annually to pay the said bonds
and interest as the said bonds and interest.
or coupons, may severally mature; and the
said special tax or levy snail be a lien
upon the taxable property of the said Third
Election District. and the said tax shall be
collected in a like manner as other taxes
levied in said county are collected. and when
collected shall be applied to the payment
Of said bonds as they severally mature and
the interest thereon, semi-annually. which
said bonds and coupons, when issued shall
be lien upon the taxable property Of the
said Montgomerycounty and shall be non
contestable for any cause whatsoever and
the said bonds and coupons, so issued,