Evening star., 1934-04-10

The question before the STATE Hoao6
Commission is whether to proceed to
try to compel the traction company
to spend that money or to determine
that the street cars be abandoned, In
which case the expenditure Of sos, 900
would be eliminated.
For that reason, It Is important
that the people of the western subur-
ban area and Rockville decide the
matter before the State Roads Com
mission attempts to compel the
trolley company to spend $99.
WEIGH. in moving that immediate
action be taken on the resolution as
submitted by his committee. declared
that with respect to the trolley COM
pany paying for replacement OF the
tracks, the most logical conclusion is
that the company is not going to
spent 5000 on a bunch of Junk"
George c. Shinn of Kensington in
troduced both of the new resolutions
dealing with the purchase of the dis
pensary site and they were referred
to the Committee on Public Finance
and Budget.
The first accuses the county COM
missioners of acting without due
consideration and without first ac-
quainting the taxpayers with the
situation" and failure to afford land
owners in the county an opportunity
to submit desirable sites.
Asks Commissioners to Resign.
It asks that the county commits
sioners resign, pointing out that lit
appears that the land was owned by
and sold to the county by company
Of which the then chairman Of the
controlling county political party was
an officer" and charging that such
practice of closing public transactions
is subversive of the best interests of
the taxpayers and conducive to favor
itism in the awarding of public bust
ness and contracts, and Is contrary to
the principals of fair dealing"
The second resolution declares that
"it appears that there is no necessity
for the erection of such liquor ware
house and office building at the ex-
pense of the taxpayers" and that the
purchase price of approximately
$4,000 was 'extrayagant and i'm
provident."
1t calls upon the Board of County
Commissioners and the Liquor Control
Board to discard and abandon the
proposed erection of the building and
to take the necessary steps to re-
deed the land to the Silver Spring
Building & Supply Co.. with the COM
pany TO return the purchase price to
the county.
States Attorney Stedman Prescott
also is asked in the measure to in
vestigate the purchase of the dispen-
sary site and take whatever action he
finds warranted to protect the in
terests of the taxpayers.
Bank Resolution Offered.
The Public Finance and Budget
Committee received a resolution sent
to the federation by the ter-federa-
ton Conference urging that the
Treasury Department hasten the Equi-
dation of the remaining assets OF
closed banks in the Washington area
as promptly as may be consistent with
the best interests of the depositors
d4io " uiSulSC u Lie OepOSlIOIS as
soon as practicable. through the re-
spective receivers or conservators, the
progress being made toward the liqui-
dation of such assets.
Lamar presented resolution chal.
lenging the legality and propriety Of
the act creating the dispensary system
on the grounds that the Maryland
constitution provides that each bill
shall apply to one question only and
that the dispensary bill contained more
than one subject and therefore wa.
| illegal.
The measure, which urges the coun.
ty commissioners to halt further &C.
tivity in the dispensaries, was referred
to the Committee on Legislation anc
Legal Action.
An information report ordered BY
the federation from the Committee or
Public Finance and Budget disclosed