The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1935-04-12
LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY
Senator CObourn Furnishes Summary
OF Local Measures Introduced
Nv Him

! Inc following is summary OF
! legislation directly affecting Cecil
county, which was sponsored by Sena-
tor Harold e. Cobourn and introduced
in the Legislature that recently adj
journed.
Investigation Electric Rates, passed
by Senate and House.
Automobile tags at County Seats,
passed by Senate and House.
County Roads maintained by State
for additional two years, passed by
Senate and House.
Taxes collected by County Treasurer
and their payment in installments,
passed by Senate and House.
Prevent reassessment for period of
two years. passed by Senate and
House
Payment of County Taxes before
transfer of real estate, passed by SEN
| ate and House.
/ Giving mortgages the right to re-
deem property sold for taxes, passed
| by Senate and House
Making changes in County elections
i--newspapers competitive hid FOR
printing ballots, etc, passed by Senate
and House.
Curative Act-making defectively
acknowledged deeds, etc. legal, passed
| by Senate and House
Extend teachers salary for addition
al two years, passed by Senate and
House.
North East Bond Issue-submftting
matter to referendum, passed by SEN
ate and House.
County Commissioners mileage on
official business passed by Senate and
House.
Resolution erect dual highway thru
Cecil along present route, passed Sem
ate and House.
Permitting expenditure sum not ex-
ceeding $4,000 for Court House site,
passed by Senate and House
| License wholesalers in gasoline and
require sale in Maryland same rate as
Del. and Penn, passed by Senate.
This Bill passed the Senate after
contest, having been reported unfavor-
! ably by the Finance Committee. An
influential lobby Immediately upon the
| passage through the Senate establish
ed itself at Annapolis and it finally
went down in defeat on the floor of the
House. Our Cecil delegation endeaVor-
! ed to have this enacted into law with
out success.
! Make il impossible for Supervisor of
| Assessments to hold another salaried
position, passed Senate.
This Bill was substitute for Senate
bill No. IL which provided Cecil Coun-
| ty should not be required to have
Supervisor of Assessments. This Bill
|
a salary of $1,000 or more he should
not be engaged in any other salaried
occupation. Although it passed thru
| the Senate, after a struggle since it
was reported unfavorably, l was un-
| successful in my efforts to get it out
of the House Judicial Proceedings
Committee and as consequence it was
mot enacted into law 1t is unfortu-
mate that the taxpayers of our County
| he tn
| flee in order to maintain this useless
position
I Make it impossible to further con-
fsolidate schools without consent of
! County Commissioners, passed by Sen
ate.
This Bill received an unfavorable re-
! port but, after a controversy, was
passed by the Senate. 1t went to the
House but was killed on the floor on
Che closing day of the session. Dele
| gate Manlove was particularly ener-
getic on this measure but the odds
were against him as the same persons
/ interested in defeating the marriage
bill were endeavoring to bring about
| its defeat.
Marriage bill-prevent signs, etc,
passed by Senate.
! This matter being of vital interest to
! the people of our County l believe /
should set out the facts and circum-
stances as l know them to be that
] they may draw their own conclusions
On January 18th l introduced state
wide marriage bill which passed the
Senate on February 18th. When it ar
rived in the House it was referred to
the Committee on Judicial Proceedings
| While it was in that Committee Mr.
Omar Critters, Jr., appeared before it
protesting its passage and when l next
appeared before the Committee I was
informed by the chairman that Mr.
Crothers, representing the business
people of Elkton, so he said assured
the Committee they objected to its
passage and | was also informed by
the Chairman that Mr., Reynolds had
informed the Committee the people of
Cecil County We're satisfied with the
conditions that now exist whether
Mr.. Reynolds did appear or made any
statement in connection with this bill
l have no knowledge. Suffice to say
something happened and when l saw
there was no chance to have the State
wide measure passed | introduced a
bill applying to Cecil County only,
1 knew this bill was being resisted
but Notwithstanding on the 18th day
of March I introduced the local bill
and it passed the Senate to the House
on March 10th. 1t was also referred
to the Committee of Judicial Proceed
ings and after many ytimes Emporium
| ing them it was reported favorably on
Saturday, March 30th, whereupon Mr.
Thomas Reynolds, Chairman of the
Cecil County delegation. requested it
be referred to the Cecil County delega-
ton. If the bill had not been inter
fered with it is my opinion it would
have passed, although / am not GER
! tain of this and although 1 am terribly
disappointed at it's failure, 1 neverthe-
less wish to be fair.
Before the bill could be placed with
the Cecil delegation and while it was
in the possession Of the Clerk of the
House it was stolen from the safe ESQ
] am informed by the Clerk and eff
forts on the part of the Clerk and of
Delegate Manlove to locate the same
were unsuccessful I informed the
Clerk that if the Bill were not pro-
duced by the time the Senate went in
to session l would relate these facts
from the Senate floor.
That ! had received a letter inform
4 ing me q certain delegate from q
neighboring County, who happened to
4 he a lawyer, had been employed to