The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1941-01-10
Md. Assembly Balls
AT Council Bills
Want Measures To Bear
Names Of Lawmakers


Validity Of the 10 bills introduced
in the General Assembly at Annapol-
is by the Legislative Council as the
result OF months of study vas at once
challenged in both Senate and House.
The point made was that the
measures, many of them important.
should have borne the name of q
Senator or delegate, and not of the
Legislative Council.
The bills, prepared by DR.. Horace
e. Flack, director of research and
secretary to the Council, were pre-
scented So In each branch of the AS
sembly.
In the Senate, Reading Clerk
Charles Cohen was about halfway
through his job when Senator Gro.
min, Hartford county, rose to ques-
ton the validity of the method Of
introduction.
He expressed fear that the bills
might not be upheld, II attacked in
court.
Senators Lindsay, Baltimore coun-
ty. and Funk, Frederick county, sup
ported the position taken by their
Hartford county colleague.
Senator Roe, Queen Anne's coun-
ty, majority floor leader, explained
that the bills had been introduced
by the Legislative Council" on adj
vice of the Attorney General.
But to guard against the possib-
ility Of complications, he said the
official Senate journal would show
/ the measures had been introduced
by the President as from the Legis-
lative Council.
A similar doubt as to the validity
of introducing the bills "by the Leg
islative Council" was voiced In the
House, and with similar result-the
House journal will show that they
have been introduced by the Speaker
ON behalf of the Legislative Council,
1t was said.
The bills, product Of months Of
patient fact-fnding by the council.
set up by the 1889 Assembly in the
interest of legislative continuity, In
cluded measures:
To establish. State gaard Of vol-
unteers to act Id lieu of the National
Guard when the latter Is ON Federal
service.
To establish two hospitals for the
chronic Ill and the INDECENT people
Of the State, one ON the Eastern
'Shore. the other ON the Western
Shore.
To regulate building and loan as
sociations.
To regulate sale, possession and
discharge Of fireworks.
To eliminate the section of the
present marriage laws which author
lies marriages through the publica-
ton of bans without the obtaining OF
licenses.
To authorize permanent tags for
Automobile licenses.
| To control installment selling.
To change condemnation proceed
ure SO as to expedite acquisition Of
rights of way by the State Roads
Commission.
The bills were to be submitted ON
ia $3.50, or rather 55-55 basis-half
of them to the Senate and half to the
House.
/ Three new Senators and twelve
new Delegates. one a woman. were
sworn In to I'LL vacancies after the
Senate had organized by re-electing
Senator Arthur H. Brice, Kent coun-
| ty, as President and the House had
reelected Thomas q. Conlon, Fifth
Baltimore district, as Speaker.
The three new Senator'S;
| George w. Della, Sixth Baltimore
district; Robert Fulton Waller. Wi
comico county, and d. Stuart Bush
long. Washington county.
i The new delegates:
i Nicholas ]. Ropka, First Baltimore
district; Stephen P. Campbell. IT,.
and Joseph v. Cain. Second Balti-
more district; Mrs. Dorothy Pippen.
Fourth Baltimore District; Elmer
Fody and Charles G. Grim. Sixth
Baltimore district.
i Also John r. Richert and J. AL
vim Ford, Anne Arundel county: n
Benjamin Rosenstock and J. Tyson
Lee, Frederick county: q. Brooke
Lee, Montgomery county; and J.
!. Herbert McElwee. Washington coun-
ty.
Senator Dudley G. Roe. Queen
Anne's county. and Delegate John
Is. White. Prince Georges county,
I were slated to continue ct this SEES
sion their roles as majority tooE
leaders, Roe as chairman Of the Sen-
ate Finance Committee and White
as chairman Of the House Ways and