The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1922-03-09
DELEGATES NEAR FIGHT AS
SEQUEL TO DRY" VOTE
Mccormick Meets DimarcO Out
side the House Chamber and
Demands RetractiOn

The i'll feeling between Delegate
Dimarco, First District, and Delegate
Mccormick, Allegany county, which
resulted from the charge made last
Friday in the House during the final
vote on the enforcement act by Mr.
Dimarco that the member of the
Temperance Committee from Allie
gany county had confessed to him
that he had both made and sold liquor
came near to precipitating a fist fight
in the corridor of the State House
on Saturday when Mr.. Mccormick
demanded a retraction.
He met Mr.. Dimarco at the door of
the House Chamber when that body
adjourned, after its short morning
session, and told him that he had not
spoken the truth when he charged
him with selling whiskey.
"If you want retraction," said Mr..
Dimarco, "you demand it on the floor
of the House and I'll answer you
there. You said it and you know you
said it."
Mr.. Mccormick persisted in his de-
mands for an apology as Mr.. Dimar-
co walked down the corridor, the two
by this time surrounded by a large
crowd, which included many of the
city members.
Exasperated at Mr.. McCormick's
attempts to detain him and argue the
question, Mr.. Dimarco shouted: go
away from me now; go away before
put you away"
Delegate Baker, chairman of the
city delegation, caught hold of Mr..
Bullock and attempted to draw him
away, pleading with him not to hold
fight in the State House. Other
city members held Mr.. Dimarco,
while j. Bib Mills, counsel for the
Anti-Saloon League, drew Mr.. Nc
ormick away.
Mr.. Bullock called loudly to Mr.
Mccormick as he was led away by
Mr.. Mills that he would put him
where he belonged if he wanted to
argue the question to him.
Lapsing into the vernacular while
surrounded by several of the city
members who were attempting to
calm him, he threatened to "knock
McCormick's horn off if he said an
other word"
Some little soreness and a deal of
GOODNESS has resulted between sew
aral of the delegates over both the
charge made by Mr.. Dimarco and the
attack made by Delegate Gesswein,
Fourth district, on Delegate Hall,
leader in the dry" fight during the
final passage of the Enforcement
act yesterday.
"A definite movement to slash every
salary increase which the Governors
budget proposes was begun yesterday
afternoon at a meeting of the House
Ways and Means Committee. The
movement was led by Majority Floor
Leader Cambria and supported by
Joseph W. Wolfnger, minority lead
er, and apparently by a majority of
the members Of the committee.
There was taken up for considera.
ton proposal by Delegate Highley,
of Talbot county, to cut every salary
in the budget, not fixed by law or the
constitution, 10 per cent over the
amount allowed two years ago. Some
of the members of the committee fav-
ored this suggestion, but no action
was taken on it. 1t seemed, howev-
er, to be the general concensus of
opinion that many items of general
expense, in addition to salary items,
which show heavy increases in some
instances over the 1920 budget, also
can stand slashing and that they
will be slashed.
Mr.. Gambrill, after the committee
had spent nearly two hours going
over various items in the budget, sug-
gested that a definite policy of refus-
ing all increases be adopted.
Manufacture, sale and use of fire ,
works would be limited under pro-
visions of a bill introduced in the
enate today by Senator Fox of Bal
oimore, eliminating types of pyro-
technic articles that would rob the
Fourth of July of most of its thun-
der. The bill precludes all fireworks
containing dynamite or other high ex-
plosives over six inches long or one
inch in diameter.
The general educational bill intro
duced by Delegate Gambrill, was pass
ed today without a dissenting vote.
Attempts to amend the bill last week
failed, the only amendment adopted by
the House being that offered by the
Educational Committee when is re-
ported the bill.
At conference Tuesday night in