The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-02-17
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Annapolis
Figures made public by Governor
Riches Office show that the present
executive paid s5,719.22 for the prep
aration and publication of the budget
Of 1920, as against $4,889.95 paid by
Governor Harrington for the same
work two years earlier. This $4,889.95,
however, is exclusive Of the amount
paid for printing on legislative order
of 500 copies Of the budget, payment
being made from the legislative
budget.
Earlier in the day Delegate Hall, of
Baltimore city, had introduced an or
der in the House calling upon the
Comptroller to render an accounting
for the $4,000 appropriation for the
preparation and issuing of the 1920
budget According to Mr.. Hall, Gov
ernor Harrington had spent $3.50 on
the budget, as compared with $4,000
spent by Governor Richie. Comp
troller Gordy is preparing the desired
statement.
Declaring that the Havre de Grace
Perryville toll bridge Is like Chinese
wall built around the sections of Har-
ford and Cecil counties adjacent to the
span, Senator Willard E. Tydings, of
Hartford county urged its acquisition
by the State at hearing before the
Senate Finance Committee.
Earlier in the session the Hartford
county Senator introduced bill in the
Senate giving the State the right to
acquire the bridge through a bond
issue not to exceed 100000. He said
today the State could pay all operat-
ing and overhead expenses on the
span and make $31, 1000 year, which
could be applied to sinking fund to
retire the loan.
Senator Tydings pointed out that
the Havre de Grace1Perryville bridge
Is the only span in the State that ex-
acts toll from persons passing over
it, and in view of the increasing traffic
he said the cost Of acquisition by the
State would increase as time passes.
j. Allan Coad, st. Mary's county, re-
signed the craftsmanship of the House
Committee on Manufacturers, his res
ignation being accepted by Speaker
Lee.
Mr.. Coad, in offering his resignation,
stated that the craftsmanship of the
House Committee on the Chesapeake
Bay and Tributaries prevented him
from attending the meeting of the
Manufacturers Committee and that he
could not administer the duties of
both offices.
The Speaker indicated that he would
ty, to the place vacated by Mr.. Coad
Mr.. Bowers is serving his second term
in the House and is said to have all
the qualifications necessary to direct
an important committee.
Full protection Of railway car repair
men from the elements was urged be-
fore the House Committee on Corpora
tons by a delegation of nine men rep
resenting locals of the Brotherhood of
Railway Carmen.
The hearing was the first upon the
"Car Shed BILL" which provides that
a protective structure shall be erected
wherever two or more persons are
regularly employed upon construction
or repair of cars.
The committee, it is understood, will
report favorably bills to change the
charters of the Westminster TheoIog-
ical Seminary and the Baltimore He
brew Congregation, and to change the
name of the Maryland Industrial
Training School for Girls.
Baltimore will have no Public De-
fender for at least two years more.
The bill creating the Office. introduced
by request by Senator Biggs, Balti-
more, was killed in committee, an I'M
favorable report brought out by Sem
ator Prick, chairman of the Judicial
Proceedings Committee, disclosed.
General opposition to the measure is
said to have developed in the COM
mittee.
The measure would have created
Public Defender to represent in Grim
inal cases persons in Baltimore city
unable to pay legal counsel to defend
them. Election to the Office at the
same time as the election of the
States Attorney was provided.
A uniform penalty of 10 per cent. for
failure to pay corporation taxes
promptly is provided in a bill intro
duced in the House by Henry w.
Roberts, of Wicomico 1t is under
stood to have been drawn by the State
Comptroller to speed tax collections.
The bill provides that where any
franchise INV or TOW m oopi}ol c%noly