Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-03-31
State Budget
Goes 10 House
For Final Action
Agreement Reached
.!On Bonus Measure
For Teachers
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNAPOLIS, March 81. The
s100,000,000 State budget bill, passed
by the Senate yesterday, came up
in the House of Delegates for final
action today as members of both
houses continued their attempt to
attain adjournment sine die Satur-
day or early Sunday.
In order to adjourn at the end of
Saturdays business it would. be
necessary to pass the budget bill and
send it to the Governor today, since
the Constitution provides the meas
ure must be approved three days
before final adjournment.
Should it be held over until to-
morrow, hope of ending the legisla-
tive session 48 hours before the con-
stitutional deadline Monday would
be gone.
The Senate, in a burst of action
yesterday which saw Ill bills ap-
proved, record for this session,
approved two measures which earlier
drew heavy fire-the revised version
of the McClayton liquor bill and
the so-called fish nets bill.
f.. Liquor Bill Revised.
The liquor proposal, which started
as complete recodification and re-
writing of the States alcoholic bev-
erage law, was passed finally, with
only two features of the original
measure remaining. These provide
for the abolition of the State APP
peals Board, the taking of appeals
from revocation and suspension
rulings to the circuit courts, and the
granting of additional rule making
power to local license boards.
The fish nets bill, which tied up
the House of Delegates for several
days, would relax licensing restric-
tions on commercial net fishing in
the Chesapeake Bay. 1t has passed
without debate.
Another fisheries bill, which would
open the Potomac River to hand
scraping of oysters during certain
seasons of the year, is up for action
today after an initial test of strength
on the floor Of the Senate yesterday.
Teachers Pay Agreement Made.
In the House Speaker Thomas E.
Conlon announced an agreement
had been reached with the Senate
to correct technically in the
bonus bill for teachers and State
employees.
The session yesterday and last
night in the lower chamber were
for the most part routine.
A Senate measure which already
had received approval Of both
houses was recalled and sent back
to the House judiciary Committee
where Chairman Milton Tolle of Bal
timore County said minor changes
were contemplated. This was the
bill to provide for continuous as
easements for the counties.
Rules were suspended for intro
duction of two bills, one OF them
authorizing county commissioners
and municipal officials to set up
and use postwar construction funds
for capital improvements, deferred
maintenance and equipment replace
ments. 1t would permit co-opera-
ton with any postwar planning
commission.
After surprise blackout had de-
layed the night session for about an
hour, the House accepted an unfa-
vorable committee report on bill
which would have required lending
companies to permit borrowers to
select insurance companies of their
own choosing to secure the loan.
Annual Budget Bill Voted.
The Senate also approved a pro-
posal that the State operate under
an annual rather than a biennial
budget.
This measure was then sent to the
House of Delegates, and if ap-
proved there would be referred to
the electorate at the general election
In November, 1914.
The Senate also passed a COM
panion measure to the budget BILL
a measure fixing the State tax rate
on real property for the coming BIZ
ennium.
The annual budget bill, introduced
by Senator John B. Funk, Democrat,
of Frederick: Frank j. Bauer,
Democrat, of Baltimore, and Horace
H, Bowling, Republican, of ST.
Marys, would provide for an amend
ment to the Constitution, which
must be approved by the electorate
at a referendum.
It proposes that the General As
sembly be called into session each
May to consider the budget for the
ensuing year. The session would
not be limited in length but would
be permitted to consider only reve-
nue. and tax matters.
The Governor would be required
to submit his annual budget 10 days
IN advance Of the budget session.
Earlier the House Ways and
Means Committee had conducted a
hearing on bill which would create
regulatory board and permit licen-
sing of naturopathic physicians in
Maryland.
DR.. Kenneth Hitchcock claimed
I'VE are already recognized in IL or
IS States and though we are a
minority group we feel we should
be authorized to practice"
Dr. Allen Chesney of the Johns
Hopkins Medical School, voiced op-
position to the measure, saying 1t
would open the door to another
poorly trained cult"