Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1918-04-13
Here and There
in the
Legislature
Bills Up To The Governor.

Bills Up To The Governor.
Annapolis
With the adjournment of the Cen
eral Assembly the scenes Of recent
activity shifted from the legislature
chambers to The rooms Of the execu-
tive department.. Here for period
Of several weeks at least, the Gov.
ernor and his force will be busy dis
posing of the bills dumped into his
hopper in the closing days. So far as
the number is concerned the Exec
utive will not be obliged to examine
nearly SO many as at the close of
previous sessions.
During the entire three months
there were surely not passed more
than $50 bills and probably hundred
of these have already been scrutinized
and a number signed. The House
passed man ignore bills proportion
ately than the Senate. OF sos intro
duced about 375 went through both
branches, while of the GOA introduced
in the Senate only $50 succeeded In
running the gauntlet.
The treatment accorded the Senate
by the coordinate body was shabby
to say the least Not more than four
or five House bills were left on the
Senate files and these were purposely
left there instead of being killed while
the speaker permitted as many as 81
to die, and among them some very i'm
portant ones.
An oyster bill which would have
been of great value to the industry
and to which there was practically no
opposition, went with the rest. Then
there was a bill which would have
permitted the employment of convlcts
on war work, and also these: Making
uniform the payments of notaries. reg
ulate the sale of coal and culm in the
counties so as to prevent the practice
of fraud, stopping litigation between
the State and former secretaries OF
State, and what the city senators re-
garded as of primary importance the
bill that would have given home rule
to Baltimore.
There were also many local bills
the counties wanted and what had
come over from the Senate. All of
these were left on the files. About
half the measures that died in this
way will not be missed. They pro-
vided for roads and changed the game
laws.
On the Senate files were left the
Bible Reading Bill which nobody
| wanted, yet many senators feared to
oppose, the first bill that would have
nut some of the Hartford county men
out of business and the Conrad Min
ing Bill which the operators succeed
ed again in squelching.
OF the Senate bills held over were
the Bone Dry Bill, as it applied to
the Eastern Shore, and which the
senators from these counties did not
want. and the bill abolishing the Or
phans' Court.
Here is a list of the bunch that the
House held up:
These Senate bills died on the
House files:
Kaufman: Ten additional notaries
for Frederick county.
| Kaufman: Requiring justices OF
Frederick county to furnish bond.
Andrews: Indexing records in Dor
chester county.
Grayson: Requiring the Telephone
Company to maintain telephone serv'
ice.
Harrison: Employing prisoners in
certain counties.
Prick: Chiropody examiners.
Eppler: The filing Of caveats.
Duval: Enforcement Of the oyster
Gull law.
Eppler: Defining tramps and va
grants.
Andrews: Catching oysters from ice
Eppler: Prohibiting registers and
clerks from practicing law.
Harrison: Road from Berlin to LIB
ertytown.
Andrews: Increase pay Of Cam
bridge police.
Eppler: Amend charter Of Midland
Bartlett: Give Easton improved
pavements.
Parsons Improving water system
in Princess Anne.
Campbell: Making uniform pay
ments by notaries public in state.
Bennett: Road in Wicomico.
Legg: Road in Queen Anne.
Bennett: Road In Wicomico.
Bartlett: Amend charter of Easton
BARTLETT: Pay of Talbot county bail
IFS.
Metzerott: Regulate sale of Goa
and culm.
Bennett: Dispose of litigation be
tween the State and secretaries o
State
Warfeld: Permitting Mancheste
bo borrow money.
Eppler: Prohibit mixing air will
gas.
Harrison: Trespass of livestock.
Mitchell. Authorize La Plata to Is
sue bonds.
Andrews: Leases IN Doicnes'o
county.
Norris: Relnstate AnIilonS
Schelle.
Bennett: Killing OF Ioxes Ill W.
comico.
Bennett: incorporate eo"n v
Hebron.
Rennett: Increasing salary treas
urer of Wicomico.
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