The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-02-05

mended in two cases only. They were
for the executive director of the De-
partment of Legislative Reference,
from $1,000 to $4,000 and superin-
tendent of the Montrose School for
Girls, from $4,000 to $4,000.
Board of Welfare Requests
Included in the appropriations for
the Board of Welfare are provisions
for a salary of $4,000 for a superin-
tendent of prisons; 81 900 for senior
stenographer and $1,000 for an in
spector of county jails.
Salaries of $1,000 a year are pro-
vided in the State Bank Commission
er's budget for two additional bank
examiners because of the large in
crease of work in the Office resulting
from the consolidation of national
banks with State banks.
The public school appropriations
for 1882 and 1888 total 1,127 1892;
for 1890 and 1881 the amount au-
thorized for expenditure in schools
was $9,85O,865.
State examining boards will receive
out of the special funds in the two
year period 100000 for expenses in
conducting examinations for appli-
cants and $4,000 each year will go to
the military department for expenses
of State-owned armories.
Items included in the $685., 263.05 to
be expended out of the general funds
of the State are $4,000 for the State
Board of Health, to be expended I'M
der direction of the Governor for re-
lief work by the Veterans Relief
Commission, for war veterans and
members of the Maryland National
Guard, $4,000 emergency appropria-
ton for the House of Reformation for
Colored Boys, due to drought con-
ditions; repairs to public buildings at
Annapolis, $10,314; repairs to Execu-
tive Mansion, $4,000; emergency ap-
preparation to Veterans Relief Com
mission, $4,000, and to the Depart
ment of Forestry, $15,080.50 for de-
felt in fighting fires in the last year.
Democrats Have New State Leader
The Legislature is now organized,
the committees have all been appoint
ed and the work of the session is
fairly underway to perform the work
which may come before it, when the
bills and other measures are pre-
scented by the people whose duty it
is to prepare them.
The only unusual feature of the
session, which at the present time
differs from previous meetings of the
lawmaking body of the past half GEN.
fury, is the fact that the preliminary
arrangements have all been practi-
cally dictated by one man, whose rise
to the position of state leader has
been prenominally rapid, for there is
no doubt of it Col. Brooke Lee, of
Montgomery county, has without any
serious open protest on the part of
any members of either house taken
charge of the whole affair. He has
selected the presiding officers of both
thes Senate and House of Delegates.
Not only that, but he dictated the
naming of all the principle subordi-
nate officers and not few of the or
binary employees owe their positions
to this able and extremely forceful
young man who has risen in short
time to a position in the Democratic
party which required years of strug-
gle, contest and heartburning on the
part of such men as the late Arthur
P. German, ST., I. Freeman Rasin and
John Walter Smith to attain what he
has attained at one jump. And in one
particular respect he has outdistan-
ced everyone of these able and distin-
guished leaders in the fact that he
is now recognized as the State leader
not only by the counties but by Balti-
more City, and so far as all outward
signs indicate, his authority is appar-
emily undisputed from Garrett to
Worcester and from Point Lookout
to Conowingo.
In all of this assumption of power
Mr.. Lee is presumably the represen-
tative of the Governor, who, while
in a position to exercise all of his au-
thority in person is understood to
have delegated it all to the aspiring
young and Industrious statesman
from the suburbs of Washington.
! There is no doubt Of it, Mr.. Lee is
in control, and up to the present time
there does not appear to be anyone
of the several able men in the General
Assembly to raise a voice in open
protest. And his control extends not
only over the county representatives,
in both Houses, but also over the
whole united Democracy of Baltimore
City-forty-two in the Assembly. If
there is anyone who has any DISPOSE