Evening star., 1935-03-01
HOUSE APPROVES
COUNTY RUM BILL.
Montgomery Measure Sent
to Senate-Sunday Movie
g.
=. Law Planned.
BY GEORGE PORTER,
Staff Correspondent of The Star.

Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, March IA new
Sunday movie bill for Prince Georges
County is among the legislative pro-
posals under consideration here today.
Representatives from the counties
near Washington had a field day in
the General Assembly yesterday, four
OF their bills being sped on their legis-
lative course by passage through the
House in which they were introduced,
five new proposals presented and one
old measure amended.
Delegate John S. White of Prince
Georges announced he would soon
offer precedent-establishing bill, per-
mitting the county commissioners. in
their discretion, to license Sunday
movies outside of incorporated towns.
Demand Made at 7. b.
Demand for permission to show
movies on Sunday in the vicinity of
7. B. LED the Delegate to order the
bill drafted. No other county in the
State has law of that sort. It will
not in any way conflict with the en-
abling act passed in 1888. under
which incorporated towns of Prince
Georges County can hold referendums
on the Sunday movie question.
The only places in the county where
movies now are shown on Sunday are
Hyattsville and Mount Rainier, both
having authorized them at referen-
dumS.
Other legislative proposals to be in
troduced today or early next week in
clude an itinerant coal dealers bill
for both Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties, sponsored by Dele
gate White, and bill prepared by the
entire Prince Georges delegation, set
ting the second Monday in April as
the date for signing the levy and the
3lSt of March as the date of finality
for assessments.
Cantrel Again Active.
Renewing their bill-producing ac-
tivitieS after lapse of several days,
Delegates Joseph A. Cantrel and Wal
ter M. Magruder, Fusionists, of Mont
gomery County, offered three more
economy measures yesterday.
One would abolish the $600-a year
extra compensation given the county
treasurer for his work in regard to
tax sales. Another would make it
unnecessary for delinquent taxpayers,
who redeem their property, to pay
SIS surveyors fee
The third slashes what Delegate
Cantrel described as unnecessary
fees assessed against delinquent tax
payers. from 50 to $50.
1t aboliSheS entirely the So so which
now goes to the counsel to the Board
of County Commissioners for prepar-
ing and filing the treasurer's tax sale
report. It reduces the So fee for re-
cording to 50, makes the fee for the
county commissioners for clerical costs
81 instead of 81, and lowers the auc-
tioneer's fee from so to 10 cents. No
change is made in the So allowed in
preparing the advertising notice.
Urged by Club.
Some of the reductions recommend
ed in the bill were requested at a re-
cent meeting of the United Young
Mems Democratic Club of the county.
Bills authorizing referendum in
Colmar Manor on the question of per-
uniting the town to borrow up to 8
per cent of the assessible basis and
permitting the town to borrow $4,000
Immediately for street improvements
were introduced yesterday by Delegate
White.
Under the present assessment the
town could borrow as much as S91 900
If the referendum measure is approved,
he explained.
Yesterday the House passed and
sent to the Senate Montgomery County
bills designed to abolish the Liquor
Board, turn its duties over to the
county commissioners, pay one of the
commissioners $500 extra for looking
after the liquor work, have appeals in
liquor cases heard by the county Cir
cult Court instead of the State License
Bureau and make the attorney to the
county commissioners counsel to all
boards and commissions in the county
except the School Board
The latter measure makes no change
In the salary of the county attorney.
although it is reported bill to cut his
S5,000-a-year pay is being contem- I
plated by Democratic legislators, who
say that is the largest compensation
paid by any county in the State.
Both the liquor bills and the one
applying to the attorney were spon-
sored by Delegates Cantrel and Ma
gruder.
The House also passed Delegate