The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1916-03-16

readers.
Senator Speicher's Bill No. Ill,
authorizing the Mayor and Common
Council of Deer Park, Garrett county.
to receive as a gift or purchase a tract
of land not to exceed two acres to be
used for public park, passed the
House and will be signed by the Go =
ernor this week. This is a bill to
validate the title to tract ofland here
tofore purchased by the authorities of
Deer Park.
TWO BILLS KILLED.
Delegate STARTERS Bill repeating the
$500 personal property tax exemption
law of 1914, was reported unfavorabIy
by the House Ways and Means Com
mittee and the report was adopted,
killing the bill.
Delegate Fox's Bill repeating the law
making it necessary for prospective
voters to declare their intention to be-
come citizens of Maryland one year be-
fore they can be registered, insofar as
it applies to Garrett county, was re-
ported unfavorably by the House Com
mittee on Elections, and the unfavorable
report was adopted, killing the bill.
TO SELL LAKE BROWN.
Senator Speicher before last weeks
adjournment, introduced bill, "by re-
quest, authorizing the State Board of
Public Works to sell the States inter-
est in II acres of ground at Lake Brown,
near Oakland, Garrett county, which
was referred to the Committee on
Finance.
ANTI-SHIPPING BILL MAY BE KILLED.
Senator Speicher's Anti Shipping
Bill, introduced early In the session, and
which passed the Senate some time ago,
will be reported unfavorably by the
House Temperance Committee, probab-
ly today. Delegate Shartzer says he
intends to make an effort to have the
bill substituted for the unfavorable re-
port and save the bill if possible. 1t
is doubtful if he will be able to do this.
as the authorization element in the
House, will kill all such measures that
now make their appearance, and Balti-
more City Delegations particularly will
oppose the Garrett county measure,
RESTRICTING POOL AND BILLIARD
PARLORs.
Delegate Fox Monday night introduce
ed Bill regulating Pool and Billiard
Parlors in Garrett county. The Bill
provides for the closing of these places
between II p. m. and a, m, except on
Saturday nights, and forbids boys under
is years Of age from playing and from
loafing or lettering about the premises
| of Pool and Billiard Rooms. The Bill is
fashioned after the Allegany county
Bill, and similar Bill which has been
introduced by the Washington Delega-
ton.
STATE HOUSE PERSONALS.
Mayor Charles h. Ashby, of Deer
Park, has been spending several days in
Annapolis and about the State House,
looking after some legislation in which
he is interested.
STATE House, ANNAPOLIS, MARCH IA.
Governor Harrington is receiving full
credit for settling the Prohibition
muddle, and so evident has been the
Governor S influence that DR.. Hare,
the superintendent of the Anti-Saloon
League in Maryland, who led the fight
for the Statewide Bill and lost, has
dubbed the bill that has finally been
! passed IAN Administration Measure, ]"
| and gives the Chief Executive of the
State full credit for bringing the fac
tons together on the compromise bill
| and thus getting rid of situation that
| threatened to tie up all further legisla-
ton at this session of the General
| Assembly. No one but Governor Har-
rington. it is admitted, could have ac-
comphshed this in the manner in which
it was done-no one but Governor Har-
rington could have brought around
| those Senators and members of the
House who were standing out for a
Statewide vote or nothing" and in
duced them to support the compromise
effected by the Mcintosh and Norris
amendments.
| NEITHER SIDE GOT WHAT 1T WANTED.
| Neither the ''wets" nor the 'drys"
got the sort of bill they wanted, but
each side accomplished something of
the purposes it had been advocating.
Baltimore City did not want to vote on
the question at all, and the other side
wanted both wet and dry sections to
vote and make the wet" spots wet or
dry according to the majority as a
whole, without affecting the dry por-
tons one way or the other. Now Balti-
more City must vote, and all other
wet sections must vote, but the
dry" sections must keep out. and one
section will not be affected by the vote
in another. No matter how Allegany
county votes, for instance, it can in no
way affect Baltimore City. nor can the