Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-28
CONNECTICUT AVE.
EXTENSION ASKED
Legislature Gets Seven Near
by Bills as Time Limit
Expires.
BY GEORGE PORTER.
stan Correspondent Of The star

ANNAPOLIS, Nd, March 2s.-Sen-
ators Robert G.. Hilton and Lansdalt
G. sasscer Of Montgomery and Prince
Georges County, respectively introduce
ed q total Of seven bills yesterday a.
the dead line' for introduction OF bill.
was reached in the legislature. None
Of the delegates from the two counties
had any bills to offer on the final day
Only through unanimous consent, after
suspension of rules, can bills be IN
troduced during the remainder Of the
session.
With the introduction of the seven
bills by the two Senators, It was said
all major measures contemplated for
Montgomery and Prince Georges are
before the Legislature.
Auto Title Bill.
Registered automobile dealers would
be issued titles on motor vehicles pur-
chased on a bill of sale outside the
State, under one of the bills presented
by Mr.. Hilton. The lack of a motor
titling law in the District of Columbia
has often made 1t difflcult for Mary
land residents purchasing secondhand
automobiles from Washington dealers
to obtain proper title, the Montgomery
County Senator explained. The bill,
Statewide in scope, would of course
also apply to automobiles purchased
anywhere outside of Maryland.
Another Hilton bill authorizes the
Montgomery County commissioners to
extend and improve Connecticut avenue
from Kensington to the Brookyille pike
The bill provides that the cost of the
project be assessed as BENEFITS against
abutting and adjacent property. It also
allows the commissioners to issue GER
ttficates of indebtedness for a period
no longer than shall be sufficient to
collect the special assessments" The
bill u declared an emergency law.
Bonding Asked.
Bonding Of repositories holding county
funds and establishment of a special
taxing area in Chevy Chase View is
authorized in the other two bills of the
Montgomery Senator.
The principal measure introduced by
Senator SaSscer proposed to require all
persons, firms or corporations selling
tobacco on commissions for farmers to
post $25 900 bond with the State tobacco
inspector as guarantee of payment OF
money collected from the sale Of the
crop.
Many Southern Maryland farmers
ship their tobacco to Baltimore con-
Germs, which sell 1t on q commission
basis. Within Eocent years some of
these companies have failed, and the
farmers who turned their tobacco over
TO them were unable to obtain their
share OF the money received from the
sale Of their crop, Mr.. SaSscer said.
A bill aimed at Washington dairy
companies which collect for their own
use bottles belonging to Maryland
da1rymen was presented by request by
the Prince Georges Senator.
The wording of the bill merely states
that the removal Of returnable con-
tanners Of beverages from Maryland Is
prohibited.
Result Of Arrests.
The measure is the result Of the re-
cent arrest of two Prince Georges dairy
owners for delivering milk in bottles
belonging to Washington concerns. These
small dairy proprietors claim 1t would
be financially ruinous If they were re-
quired to use only their own bottles as
q large per cent Of them are collected
by the Washington dairy wagons. The
Marylanders then have to pay to get
them back from a bottle exchange.
The other bill introduced by Senator
Sasseer provides that it shall be I'M
necessary for clerks and deputy clerks
of court 10 attend ONCE on legal holi-
days. The bill merely clears a defect
in the present law, according to Mr..
Sasscer.