Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-04-02
LEGISLATURE
NOW HISTORY.
General Assembly Of 1915
Closed In Early Hours Of
Morning.
QUIET IN HOUSE.
Feeling Between Speaker AnG
His Opponents Left Tinge OF
Bitterness To The
VcrV Last.
Very Last.

The doors of The Senate and House
chambers arc closed. the Senators and
De-, gates have yspar.ej aal The 1915
session of the General Assembly exists
only in memories. The end of the sCs-
sion was about as spectacular ana OK
citing as an afternoon tea al a parson-
age The Senate did manage to chjrp
more or less feel, ia song as "a s's-
sion wound up lut HE House did moth
ing m groNl al The Speaker ana re-
gret that they had not adjourned
earlier.
Something like q cheer went up f.um
the Delegates as The Speakers gravel
came down for the last time and It's
echoes are heard all over the Sta,y TO-
day. When the House of Delegates
adjourns il is time to cheer. Many
Senate bills died on the Speakers desk
when the House quit at I.32 a. VI. On
the other side of the hall the situ-
tion was different The Senate desk
was practically clean nearly tNo
hours before the House adjourned and
the Senators. with nothing 10 do soar
ed on oratorical wings for sheer love
of talking
Several matters stood out promi-
nently throughout the session. Nota-
bic among these was The fight TO save
hOrseracing in Maryland and the
consequent interest in the breeding of
thoroughbred horses. Leading the
fight for the thoroughhrcds was Scna-
tor Richard A. Johnson. of Howard
County. His personal popularity with
members of both Houses probably
was the greatest asset of the friends
of racing throughout the session. Sen
ator Johnson made an aggressive
fight to save the tracks and he put
it over.
Senator Johnson was the majority
floor leader. To him were entrusted
the important administration meas
ures and throughout the racing fight
he never neglected these. To his at
titude in this connection probably is
due the lack of active opposition to
racing on the part of the Governor.
The Governor has long been recogniZ-
ed as an enemy of racing, but Sena-
tor JohnsOn's devotion to his duties as
, majority floor leader is thought to
have kept the Executive hands off in
the racing fight.
One of the livest and cleanest fight
| for sport was made for amateur base
| ball on Sunday. This bill, introduced
| by Senator Eppler, passed the Senate
and after having been tabled in the
| House was reconsidered last night and
| got a majority of the votes II fail
| ed, however, to obtain the necessary
two-thirds majority to suspend the
rules and died.
The Assembly went on record as ia
| vorable TO nationwide prohibition by
| the passage of the resolution ratify-
ing the federal constitutional dry
! amendment but baked at State wide
| prohibition. 1t did, however. pass
| several local prohibition bills, includ-
| ing one drying up Chesapeake Beach.
The latter, a House bill, finally pass
ed the Senate in the closing hours last
| night
Advocates Of equal suffrage found
little to encourage them during the
session. Both House and Senate vot-
ed their bills down with neatness and
dispatch. The suffragsts quit their
active fight about midway of the ses-
sion and when the Wariield bill cx-
tending to women the right to vote in
Presidential elections came up i'm the
Senate it died without a struggle.