Evening star., 1945-01-05
Legislative Council
Plan Expected 10 Aid
Work at Annapolis
BY the Associated Press.

ANNAPOLIS. Md, Jan. 5.-The
1945 General Assembly, already the
recipient of one-day crop of 219
bills, was in recess today until
Monday night.
The avalanche of legislation in
troduced and readied for committee
action yesterday was expected to
occasion no mechanical delays, de-
spite wartime shortages of help and
materials experienced by the official
State printers, Gov. O'Conor said.
All but one of the measures bore
Legislative Council approval and
many already were printed. These,
Gov. O'Conor explained, would "give
a backlog of work" for the legis-
lators and allow the printers a
breathing spell before individual
lawmakers began introduction OF
other bills.
Controversial Bills Included.
The Legislative Council system
thus probably prevented a real bot.
tleneck in mechanical preparation
OF legislative matters, the Governor
said.
Included among the Iii Senat,
bills were two considered by law.
makers as probably the most signifi.
cant and controversiaa of the ses.
sion. They were the S"home rule
measures and the bill to give to the
State Banking Commission juris.
diction over building and loan asso-
Citations.
The only non-Legislative Council
measure was the perennial bill te
repeal the popularly styled Jim
Grow" law requiring provision oi
separate accommodations for whites
and Negroes on intrastate trains
and steamboats,. Senator E. Milton
Altfeld, Democrat, of Baltimore
sponsored the latest edition of the
measure which has been defeated
in many previous legislatures.
Two new delegates were sworn in
They were Lee H. Robinson and Al.
bert w. Walker, both Democrats
who Joined the Montgomery Count,
delegation and were given the oatl
of office by Speaker John S. Whits
shortly after the lower House con,
vened. They succeed the late Ben.
Jamin G. Wilkinson. jr., who dice
December 80, and Robert H. Hunter
who resigned earlier this week.
The Assembly adjourned until
pm. Monday, after the Senate spen
hour and 27 minutes in session
1t took the House "a minutes less tt
receive 108 bills.
Following Senate lead to reduc,
the number of standing committees
Delegate Charles M See, Repub
lican, of Allegany introduced in th
House resolution to eliminate Il
committees. The resolution was re
ferred to the Rules Committee.
Among the committees which
would be scrapped were those OF
internal improvements, inspections
manufacturers, pensions, public rec
ords, library, printing and immi
grafton.
Two new Senate committees ap
peared among rs appointed by Sen
ate President James j. Lindsay
They were natural resources
headed by Senator Wilmer C. Carte
of Baltimore, and labor, preside,
over by Senator George w. Dell,
of Baltimore.
Few Personnel Changes.
Few personnel changes were re
f1ected in the appointment of oil
committees. chairmen of which in
cluded: Constitutional amendments
Senator Thomas F. johnson O
Worcester, and elections. Senate
r. Fulton Waller of Wicomico.
Speaker White was expected t,
rename approximately the sam,
committeeman as held office dur
ing the 1914 special session whel
he makes his appointments mex
week. But at least one fight be-
tween Eastern and Western Shor,
factions was indicated for chair,
manship of the Chesapeake Ba,
and tributaries group.
4 Representatives of the nine East
lern Shore counties formally mott
fed Speaker White and Gov
lO'Conor Of their Endorsement O
Delegate P. Elliott Burroughs o
Wicomico for the chairmanshi]
held at the last regular session b,
Delegate Albert W. Woodfleld o
Anne Arundel, candidate for re
appointment.
Three Baltimore City Delegate
said they would introduce con
stitutional amendment to lower th
minimum voting age to Is from tn
present 81. They are John 7
Booth, Albert L. Sklar and Bertran
L. Boone, all Democrats.
Factories to Remain
Il r. !.