Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-02
PRESIDENT INVITED
TO COME HERE
Resolutions introduced by Delegate
Linthicum.
BILL FOR THE SHERIFF.
Brief Sessions Today in General AS
sembly-- Want to Abolish Public
Executions.

Executions.
Delegate Linthicum. of Anne Arun-
del county. wants President Wilson TO
come to Annapolis to address the
members of the General Assembly
upon the subject of Preparedness.
. Mr.. Linthicum today introduced a
joint resolution inviting the President
I TO make the trip and explain his pre-
/ paredness ideas. The measure will
! have to be passed through both houses
of the Legislature before being finally
effective.
The resolution points out the strong
sentiment of the people of MARYLAND
in favor of an increase of the Army
and Navy of the country in order that
the United States may be better pre-
tected in the event of difficulties with
foreign nations, and asserts that the
legislators having recently been elect
ed, are fresh from the people and WELD
powerful influence throughout their
various districts. and continues:
Whereas the President of the Uni
ted States is endeavoring to demon
strate to the nation at large the i'm
portance OF preparedness by the in
crease of its Army and Navy. be it
therefore
Resolved. BY the General Assembly
of Maryland, that the President of the
Senate and the Speaker of the House
of Delegates of Maryland appoint
joint committee consisting of three
Senators, of which the President of the
Senate shall be an eX-officio member.
and the Speaker of the House appoint
five Delegates, of which the Speaker
shall be an eX-officio member, to serve
as a committee to wait upon the Pres
ident of the United States. at the White
House, in the City of Washington, and
to invite him to address the General
Assembly of Maryland upon the ques-
tiOn of preparedness at such time dur
ing the session as may be suitable to
his convenience. and be it further
Resolved, that the President of the
Senate Of Maryland,an the Speaker of
the House of Delegates make such ar
rangements as may be necessary for
the proper reception and escort of the
President of the United States from
Washington to and from the City OF
Annapolis
The figfht has already begun in the
Legislature against the Linthicum bill
to break up the practice in this county
of giving to the big corporations loca-
ted in the upper part of the county
large exemptions from taxation, which
it is estimated takes hundreds of
thousands of dollars off the county
basis each year to the very great in
justice TO the little taxpayer
Robert Beacham and Allan c. Grid
wood, of Baltimore. representing the
big corporations who have been enjoy
ing this annual pie cutting in Anne
Arundel for years, appeared before the
House Committee on Ways and Means
today in opposition to the passage of
the bill. Friends of the measure. in
Guiding prominent and substantial tax
payers and residents of the county Will
be heard by the committee
There will be offered within the next
few days in the Senate, bill further
regulating the office of Sheriff in this
county The bill is designed to place
a check upon the office 1t provides
that the Clerk of the Circuit Court
shall at the end OF every term of Court
submit to the County Commissioners
list of all civil and criminal cases
for the term where costs were adjudg-
ed against the county, and showing
also all fees in civil criminal cases as
charged or received by the Sheriff
This is to be used as a check against
the regular report of his fees and col
lections put in under oath by the Sher-
if to the Commissioners.
Today's sessions of the General As
sembly were brief The House met for
a short time. during which several
more or less important bills were in
troduced, while the Senate did not get
together until about 1.S0. the members
having been addressed in a star
chamber session in their retiring
room by Dr. Walker, chairman of the
Statewide Vice Commission. who told
them of vice conditions found in the
+ State during the Investigations of the
past two years.
A bill offered in the House by Dele
gate Luthardt. of Baltimore city. is de.
signed to abolish public executions in
the State hereafter. 1t provides that
the death penalty shall in all cases be
imposed in room TO be provided for
that purpose in the Baltimore city Jail
There is no change in the manner of
death. hanging being retained.