Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-21
THE LEGISLATURE
MEETS AGAIN TONIGHT
The Goodnow Budget Bill is Calen-
dared for Special Order 8 30.
STIFF FIGHT PROMISED.
AEH-Saloon League Busy On PrOhibi-
ton Fight Mum On Appoint
ments.

ments.
Win week Of unusually important
Il LEGISLATION facing them the members CT
me General Assembly viii re-assem-
Bile here tonight The first OF the big
fights OF the whole session viii get
under way very shortly after tie two
houses meet Ia both the House and
Senate the GooGnow Budget Bill is cal
endared as the special order for S.3e
| tonight and IN each branch a stiff fight
IS IT'D contemplation.
All indications point &c the adop-
ton OF the budget plan substantially
as prepared by the Goodncw Commis-
sion. The Senate Committee has sub
mitted three amendments which are
not i Is said. Objectionable to Gov
ernor Harrington Ia these circum-
chances the chances are that some. AZ
east OF the proposed changes viii be
| made although there Is a large ele-
ment "a the General Assent that adj
| yocates the passage Of the measure
| without any amendments of any kind.
Several are opposed to the budget
| made up by one man, and that man the
States chief executive. claiming that
| ii confers gpon the Governor too much
power They think a board -shoeld be
| named to perform this service. Il does
not seem as though this idea had any
general support
The prohibition fight is the one that
seems 10 be attracting the greatest at
| tention IN Baltimore city. where the
business inen of the community have
lined up Pretty soiidly against the
| measure. the purpose of which is to
| submit MS Statewide proposition
the question of whether the manufac-
ture and sale OF liquors is to be pro
hibited.
| The Temperance Committee in the
Senate has reported the bill fav0rab,y
with an amendment exempting Balti-
more city from the operations Of the
act The report is not taken to out
| line the real fight on the measure. for
the reason that most Of the big dis
tilleries arc located in the counties OF
| Maryland. and likewise some Of the
| breweries. Manufacture Is prohibited.
| Hence they would come under the
terms of the act passed although Bal
timore city were exempted from the
| provisions of the bill
The committee report is accepted as
| meaning tiat the anti prohibitionists
are PLAYING for position, for they are
in control OF the committee. As most
| people see it, the big fight. and the one
The AnG-Saloon League which is back
| ing the prohibition bill, has most TO
fear. is the one 10 substitute the local
| option bin for it Senators and Dele
gates from dry counties that would moi
vote for a wet" bill would support a
local option measure.
The bill, if passed would give Balti-
more city, Baltimore, Anne Arundel
| and other counties now wet" the right
to vote as a unit on whether they are
to remain wet or swing into the dry
column.
OF course the liquor people. big and
little. do not want local option bill
and a great many people in Baltimore
who are interested in the town in one
way or another, but have no direct in
| terest in manufacture and sale of Ii
| qucr, want no such legislation passed
| They cannot understand why the peo-
| pie should be put to the trouble and
expense of having an election when
! they have never asked for q vote, and
I have given many evidences OF their
anwillingness TO have even en- election
| thrust upon them.
Still there are county Legislators
who insist that heir con stlCuenct is
demanding that they do something TO
clean that den of iuiquity' known as
Baltimore city, and that they must re-
spond to the demand in some fashion.
As many see it the situation is this
The prohibition measure may g0 over
and the defeat of the local option bill
is almost II not altogether. impossible
concerning the fight of anti-prohibi-
bitionists. the complaint is made that
those who have it in charge. whoever
they are. have badly hungled their Job.
However this maybe, the time inter
veuing before Thursday. when the vote
is taken, gives them an opportunity
to correct whatever errors have been
made. They are said 10 be capable OF
correction
Public interest in the appointments
TO be made by Governor Harrington
center largely around his selections
FOR the Police and Liquor License
Boards. and the selections he makes
for police magistrates and Peoples
Court men-the men upon whom so
many people unable to bear the OK
pense of costly litigation must depend
for justice. The Governor has so far
been absolutely uncomfortable. He
was in Baltimore on Saturday. and he
might. it wss said. have discussed the
appointments with people interested
in them.
The politicians are included in the
list of Baltimore city people who arc
greatly interested in what the Govern
or may do. They say they know moth
inc OF his intentions.