Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-01
THE JUDGES BILL
ATTACKED AS USUAL
Unfavorable Report Adopted Kills
Bill to Wipe Law Off Statute
Books.
JUDGES PENSIONED.
President Wilson to be Asked to Come
to Annapolis and Address
Legislature.

Learned judges of Maryland's courts
may now rest in peace for at least an
other two years. The law granting iu-
rists pensions after reaching a certain
age. against which county members
have each Legislature directed their
fire ever since it was put on the stat
ute books, was attacked as, usual this
session, Delegate Deleplane offering q
measure to wipe it off the books.
This morning the bill came from the
Judiciary Committee with an mfayor-
able report. The report was adopted
and the bill killed after short skirm-
ish. by vote of 81 TO 40,and then Dele
gate Hall, of Baltimore city applied the
usual legislative "clincher" of moving
TO reconsider this and then to lay this
motion on the table.
This was adopted and precludes the
subject matter of this bill being again
considered in any form during the
present session of the Legislature.
President Wilson is to be asked to
come to Annapolis and address the
lawmakers of Maryland upon the sub
ject of national preparedness if a joint
resolution to be offered tomorrow by
Delegate Linthicum, of Anne Arundel.
is finally adopted The resolution
points out the general interest now ta-
ken in preparedness and then cites
that the Legislators from all parts OF
the State are in position to WELD a
powerful influence coming as they
have just from the people
Mr. Linthicum was TO have offered
his resolution today, but delayed it as
ii was not vet in proper form for intro
duction. 1t is pointed out in connec-
tion with the resolution that President
Wilson was visitor and a speech
maker before the members of the Gen
eral Assembly of four years ago. when
he was seeking the Democratic nomi-
nation for the presidency. On that
occasion he addressed a large gather
ing in the House of Delegates Hall
Two Anne Arundel county bills were
introduced in the Senate today Sen
ator Duvall offered the measure in
creasing the salaries of the school
teachers of the county to a maximum
of $500 annually this figure being
reached upon a sliding scale based
upon the time of service in the county
and without regard to the grading or
rating of the teachers by the County
Superintendent. Its provisions have
been told of fully in a recent issue of
The Capital.
The other bill offered by Senator Du-
vail provides for legalizing and making
evidence before courts of law of the
Code of Anne Arundel Local Laws re-
Gently codified by Counselor Ridgely p
Melvin, of the Board of County Com
missioners.
With one school house bond issue
bill already in,plans are being perfect
ed for the introduction of a bill pro-
viding for a $4,000 bond issue to build
a structure for the graded school al
Curtis Bay, in the Fifth district. The
other bond bill provides for an issue
of $4,000 for a graded school house
at Linthicum Heights.
Among the bills of more than pass.
ing interest introduced today was one
from Delegate Dobson of Talbot coun
ty. eXempting that county from the
provisions of the so-called ''nine-coun
| ty" local option law enacted two year.
ago. 1t is the idea of the persons bacl
of this bill that the repeal will pu
| Talbot county back under singl,
county local option law without th,
| drastic provisions of the present law.