The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-03-26

IN al cHOFL 10 get D6lOIo tHc HCAn
bsrs Of the Legislature, information
Shat will aid The. individual member
il Intelligent consideration Of the big
road plan of the administration, MI
nority Floor Leader Simmons offered
in the House resolution asking for q
report from the State Roads Commit
| tee upon the work of that committee
| during the pas two years. The reso
] luton states that, as the State Roads
Committee is required to annually
compile and publish maps and statis'
| tics relating to the pubic roads of the
/, state, and to annually make to the
Governor a detailed report of its OH.
cial transaction and expenditures, It
should now submit such a report to
the House of Delegates Furthermore,
| the resolution states that as the State
Roads Committee has not made public
report of its operations from 1915
| and 1919, as required to do, it should
now be required to. do this and to show
| the legislature all facts regarding the
cost of building and maintaining the
roads. The road bill will involve ex-
penditure of $3O,000,000 Of state funds.
Governor Richie issued proclama.
ltioa calling upon the people of Mary
land to give quickly and abundaGtly
to the Near East Relief, as it is the
| only agency in this country that can
carry effective aid to stricken people.
| Ten thousand Armenian orphans viii
| be provided with food for year IL
| Maryland gives her quota of $750,000
to the $30,00Q,000 fund that is being
| raised throughout the country. The
campaign in the State has Melted ap.
provimately $4,000 to date, which
means that food will be provided for
| 1888 orphans for year. But this
| leaves SALT children to be fed, il
Maryland is to do her part in the
great humanitarian work that America
has undertaken in the NearpEast.
That persons engaged in fishing
and grabbing and the oyster industry
would benefit from special taxes they
| would be called upon to pay, is the
opinion Of William H. Killian, chair
man of the State Conservation Com.
| mission, who is backing bill in the
Legislature that would impose a spe-
| c;al tax upon these industries to fur
nish funds for the commissions oyster
| planting and fish hatchery plans.
The bill asks for appropriations, th9
| funds of which are to come from gen,
eral taxation and special taxation a7d
licensing of persons engaged in fishing,
grabbing and oyster longing The bill
| will be brough. before both houses 81
the Legislature this week. 1t provides
for bushel tax on oysters, a package
| tax on crabs and complete revision
of the operators license schedule for
the whole industry, including the fish
cries.
Mr.. Killian says these natural re-
sources have been exploited continu-
ously for years to the advantage of
people living adjacent to the waters;
| that no investment is entailed upon
| them other than the necessary equip
ment. and that while this industry has
been going on two-thirds of century
the State has never been called upon
to aid nature in replacing supply
| for the future. He thinks that it is
time for the Conservation Commission
to be financed to such an extent that
it will be able to increase seafood pro
duction, which means SO much in the
matter of food conservation.
Maryland, the state which gave
''The Star-Spangled Banner" to the
country, is about to make another pa
triotic effort by bill introduced in
the House by Delegate Garland w
Powell, and which provides that
course on Americanization be incor
porated in the curriculum Of Maryland
schools The measure yesterday was
passed to its third reading.
The Senate Judicial Proceedings
Committee reported favorably Senator
Brady's bill creating three-man rae
ing committee for Anne Arundel coun-
ty, which will have supervision of the
racing meets at Laurel and which pro-
vides that the tracks operating in this
county. except the agricultural fair
trotting tracks, shall pay to the county
a tax Of $1,000 per day for each racing
day.
The Senate Finance Committee
voted to report favorably the Brady
bill, providing for the construction of
state Office building at Annapolis as
a memorial to the soldiers and sailors
of the state who gave their lives in
the World War This action in the
absence of any of the city members OF
the committee came as a distinct sur
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