Evening star., 1943-02-19
Teacher Bonus
Of $500 Voted
By State Senate
Amendment Passed
By I'LL POLL; $400
PAYMENT Defeated
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 19-Maryland
teachers and State employees earning
less than $4,000 annually had Senate
approval of 5000 war bonus today.
but the controversial bonus bill itself
remained to be adopted by the upper
house.
The Senate, which refused to in
dorse $400 bonus, did, however,
adopt an administration amendment
which would give 5000 bonus and
provide for State aid to any county
which, of its own volition, decided to
extend the salary adjustment over
longer period than the 10 months
stipulated in the bill.
The 17-to-11 approval vote on the
administration amendment came at
night session and before galleries
packed with school teachers and
others interested in the measure.
AS passed by the Senate, the
measure would give the teachers
their payments over 10-month pc
riod beginning July l. with State
employees getting their bonus in two
$1O0 payments in July and August.
Bonus Could Be S340.
Majority Leader James j. Lindsay
explained the amendment to start
teacher payments July was offered
because Maryland's basic law for
bids payment of additional compen-
sation to any one working for the
State under a continuing contract
such as teachers hold during the
contract period.
The amendment offered by Mr..
Lindsay also provides that if any
county increases the salary of it's
teachers by $113 a year, the State
will grant to that county $27 for
each teacher in addition to the orig
inal 5000. This would allow the pay
ment of total bonus of $34O.
He tol dthe Senate that "the
members Of the Finance Committee
sincerely tried to find another ST.
300, 900 which would permit the pay
ment of total adjustment of S40O.
That sum of money just doesn't
exist"
He also said the administration
had considered making the share
the-cost plan mandatory, but I'VE
felt - " that it was an unnecessary
and undue hardship on the teachers
to place them at the mercy of the
political subdivisions.
The House received % measures
and passed Is bills and one Joint
resolution, while the Senate received
13 new bills, passed Is and heard
favorable reports on 81 measures.
Must Label Horsemeat.
One House bill passed would make
it a misdemeanor to sell horsemeat
without plainly designating the
product as such.
OF the new measures introduced
in the Senate. one would provide for
the exchange of tax information, on
a reciprocal basis, with any State
or territory or the Federal Govern
ment.
Another bill introduced in the
Upper House would set up a three
man State poultry commission which
would be granted authority to
license poultry dealers and to en-
force honest weights and other reg
ulations
BY adopting unfavorable commit
tee reports, the Senate killed two
bills, one of which would have pro-
vided for the licensing of day
nurseries.
The Senate also sustained three
gubernatorial vetoes of bills pre-
pared by. the Legislative Council.
One of the measures submitted in
the House would require the States
race tracks to turn over breakage
funds to the Racing Commission for
distribution to the counties and to
Baltimore city.
. Breakage-Which in Maryland Is
to the nickel on each dollar-repre-
sents the difference between the
mathematically computed payoff of
winning wager and the actual
payoff.