Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-02-23
BIG FIGHT ON
COODNOW PLAN
Prohibition Struggle On for To-
morrow Night--Newsy Notes
From Legislature.
WILL 1T PASS?
Votes for WOmen's Movement Already
ACCOMPLISHED Something.


The bic fight upon the Goodnow bud
get plan which win be more heated
and long drawn out than which took
place in the Senate on Monday night
is booked in the House of Delegates
tonight
Tomorrow, right on top of THIS big
fight, comes the prohibition struggle
in the Senate. The budget bill is the
special order in the House mt $50 to-
night, and the Statewide prohibition
! measure is the special order In the
Senate at l.30 tomorrow.
The bulge; fight tonight VIII be over
the adoption of a number Of amend
ments offered by Mr.. wilkinson and
Mr. Lee, of Baltimore city and others
all designed to check what opponents
OF the pill as introduced call too
great Capitalization of power The
amendments are all in having been
offered on Monday night and ordered
ioulnallzed az the time the special or
Ger motion prevailed
The prohibition fight tomorrow I'm
the Senate will draw to this city host
Of Baltimoreans it is now expected
Although the liquor interests OF Bal
timore city have not been prominent
this year about the l0bbies of the State
House IL is felt that interest in BaNi-
more city in the fight to exemt the
city from the provisions of the bin viii
draw large crowds to witness the ini-
tia struggle between vets and 3rys.
VIII it pass? Will Baltimore city
sait lg u
hc These arc Questions being heard
on all sides.
The lrys are confident that they
have the votes to pass the bill without
amendment The expressed feelings
of the two sides to the battle arc close
as one can get to the probable out
conc. Either siGe may be right or
the other wrong. The best guess
seems 10 be ,hat the bill, witho,
amendment win pass the Senate by a
safe ma ority. After this is done to-
morrow the question viii 20 over to
the House, whore the drys are also
claiming to be s2fe.
Besides the interest IN the pyohibi-
tion and the woman's suffrage fights
and the budget scrap in the House to-
night the next greatest interest about
the state House today centers in the
coming of o big delegation from Balti
more county and some few persons
from Anne Arundel county to appear
before the Judiciary ccnmit.oe Of the
two branches IN joint session this af-
ternoon when the city annaxation plan
vii be considered
The delegations TODAY are against
annexation. Yesterday le1 by Frank
a. Fllst and Including former Mayors
Mahool and Timanus. a delegation of
two hundred business men of Balti-
more city came to town to urge that
Arne Arundel and Baltimore counties
b compelled by legislative enactment
TO give up part OF their territory that
The metropolis OF the Stae mirhgtow.
The same arguments ed during
the general and primary election cam
paign of last fail, when annexation
was one OF the live issues were re
hashea by the speakers That the city
had the right TO grow. that it would
really be a kiRdness-to the two coun-
ties affected to take part of them into
the munic pei limits and similar
claims were made by tie speakers.
Whether the male votes of Mary
land are going TO be given an opportu-
nifty TO. pass upon the rights or wrongs
OF "woman's rights" will probably be
settled at the state House 5eiore night.
If the Senate's action Yesterday after.
noon is an Indication, fne ladies' rle
surely going TO have their important
question submitted 10 the voters
However, the Constitutional amend
ment granting this is the special order
in the House this afternoon and on the
acton of the lover branch the subject
depends the final outcome
Even il it is not passed by the House
the friends ana workers of the Y ties
for Women movement have already ac-
complished something this scssiuol
never even closely approached in fer
mer meetings OF the Assembly when
this question was up fol consideration
They yesterday afternoon mustered
constitutional majority and by this
majority succeeded in gettin- the bill
substituted for the nfavcraLle rerort
the Amendments Committee TO the
Constitution Committee had brought
IN in the Senate
The fight was a warm one led bs
senator Mudd. Of Charles county. who
introduced the suffrage bill He was
was hacked M by members Of the mi
nority with several Of the Democrats
joining the ranks OF slfFragist sup
perters' and when the roll was dnally
called. il was found that this motion 10
override the committee report had
been adopted by a vote Of II to 10.
This is two mole than the constita-
tional majority Of three-ffths re-