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EASTERN SHORE MAYORS
MEET AT SALISBURY
President And Congress Upheld
Want Portion of state Roads Fun
Expended in Corporate Limits.

Salisbury, Md. April 5.-One 81
! the lost important conIerenS1
! mum ipaiitleS ever he'd III
! land assembled IN tins city toGs
! when The Municipal Congress OF the
Eastern Shore met in the Court
! House. 1nCre were about so ueief
| gateS present from the nine counISes
! OF the Eastern Snore, lncIuQlng SLaNe
! oent,, rs, Mayors, ClIy Councilmen
I ana v,ner leading citizens interested
! IN les station winch viii be presents
/ ed tU the next General Assembly in
| this 1,ate.
The deiegates were entertained at
! dinLCr at me Peninsula HOCel, where.
an aC~-resS OF Welcome was delivered
by fCt.ner State Senator Marion ".
Brew -ugton, and responded 70 by Ma.
yOr 1>.tnols, OF Easton.
A EuSlneSS session was held after
the visitors had been shown over the
city b J a committee composed Of Ma
yor /. y. Jones and the City Council,e
toge.Aer with Graham Gunby, Will
liam N. Cooper, George L. Huston,
Edward d. Mitchell and S. klnk
White. The congress organized With9
Mayo Nichols in the chaIr and elec-s
Ted I. Il. l.. Price, OF Centreville, Sec
retary.
Ma or jones discussed the con-.
meeting up OF the STATE highways
throu IN the larger Incorporated
towns. Letters were read from CheS-
tertoN5n. Cumberland, BeIair, Havre
de Ga Ice, Westminster and ElIlcott
City lLdorsing the plan.
Ma, or Jones said that from 19s4 |
until tle present time the State hiy
EXPENDED $24,UO0,U00 in the con
struct.on of highways, $6,00O,OO03
coming from the State Aid Fund,
half o. which was paid by the abut-
ting property owners. out of the
total funds, he added, Baltimore city
had received about $4,00O,000 to-
build about. 16 miles uf streets, and
that o. fines collected because OF In
fractions of the automobile laws Bal
timora city has received 20 per cent,
and the State Commission 80 per
cent, while the incorporated towns
within the State have received moth
ing.
These towns and cities. he declar-
ed, have had to provide police for
the collection of the fines, while not
a single foot of State highway has
been built through these incorporat-
ed towns. 1t would not cost more
than $350,000 to connect up the
State highways through the incorpo-
rated towns of Maryland, he stated,
and the congress urged such an ap-1
preparation.
The question of Traffic Laws"
was presented by Mayor Orem, of
Cambridge. There were several ex-
press Cns ON this subject by Mayor
Jones, Mayor Nichols, Senator Ben
nett and others, who were all of the.
opinion that uniform laws should be
made throughout the State, especial-7
ly as 10 the rate oef speed within
city limits. ss.
State Senators and members of:
- Of Dflaa aateS to be elected
this fail viii De ask6N
Tor the enactment of this legislation.
Speeches were made also by Sena-I
tor J. 4. C. Legg, Of Queen Anne's;
Senator L. Atwood Bennett, of this
county, and former State Roads
Commissioner W. 3. Miller. All
pledged their support for the legs
lation. Mr.. Miller maintained that
he State Highways Commission
should be increased to six members
so thai each Congressional district in
he Sta.e would have representation.
on the Importance OF having uniform
autom chile speed laws in all munich
palitie3. Mayor Nichols asked for
cooper alton among municipalities
and oIlcialS.
Senior Legg offered the follow
ing re solution, which was adopted
by rising vote, and copies were tel
egraphtd to President Wilson, Unit
ed States Senators John Walter
Smith and Joseph l. France, and
Congressman Jesse D. Price:
Resolved, That the municipal
Congress of the Eastern Shore OF
Maryland indorses the patriotic ac-
ton OF President Wilson and the
Congress of the United States in So
nobly upholding the dignity and
honor of the country and our ma
tional self-respect in this hour of
crisis n our international relations.
The Congress adjourned, to meet
in Chest ertown June 7th.