Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-03-04
BAL LTINORE WILL
SUCCEED IN GRAB
All Present indication IRE That
Annexation Votes Have
Been Secured
VOTE COMES HIS WEEK
members of Senate EavOriEg Annexa-
ton Seem Fully Assured That They
lave Got the Vote.

Breaking it's record for the session
by re-assembling after the weekend
recess on Monday instead of Tuesday
the Maryland Legislature viii meet
tonight at o'clock. Many import
ant matters are to come up during the
week, but of chief interest to Annapo-
lis and Anne Arundel and Baltimore
Counties is the fact that, from all
present indications, Baltimore City's
grab for the most important taX-pro-
ducing sections of these counties in
the annexation scheme will in all prob
ability have been settled before
another weekend adjournment is
taken.
Anne Arundel politicians, and busi-
ness and professional men who have
lent their efforts to the fight for the
defeat of the city's scheme, who are
most closely in touch with the situa-
tion realize fully that there was dur
ing the final days of last weeks ses-
sions a change of sentiment in the
Senate which seriously endangers the
defense Anne Arundel and Baltimore
Counties are putting up against the
plan.
1t very frankly and plainly looks
now to those who will not allow their
wish to b. leir judgment that Gov
ernor Harrington will either have to
sign or veto the socalled -parti-
san" Greater Baltimore League Bill.
Baltimore Citys claim that she has
won over sufficient votes to first pre-
vent any amendment and then pass
the bill through the Senate is appar-
emily now bluff. This being the case
it is right up to Anne Arundel and
Baltimore Counties to, in the language
slang fiend "get on the job"
Baltimore and Anne Arundel Coun-
ty will present their last arguments
before the Senate Judiciary Commit
tee tomorrow afternoon, so that it is
more than likely that report from
the committee will come in on We'd
nesday. The order offered by Sena-
tor Stiffier, of Hartford, that the meas
ure be considered by a special COM
mittee seems to have been well smoth-
cred in the Rules Committee so that
the final committee report is prac-
tically assured to be that taken by the
Judiciary Committee.
Should the report from this COM
mitee come on Wednesday, it will
then be for the Senate to determine
whether to give immediate considera-
tion or make the measure a special
order on a succeeding day. Once,
however, it comes before the Senate it
will not be sidetracked, but pushed to
its third reading.
The test vote will be on the refer
endum. This provision may come be-
fore the Senate in a minority report
from the committee and if so it will
figure largely in the preliminary fight.
The hopes of the opponents of the
bill rest on this proposition and a
determined effort will be made to
bring the Democrats into line for it.
Should it fail to carry, none of the
other proposed amendments would be
seriously considered.
AS far as known. the opposition to
the bill on the Rpublican side is lin
tied to about four Senators, but this
detection will, the city forces are
claiming, be more than met by Demo
Gratis who are disposed to help the city
and who are uncontrolled by the ad-
ministration