Evening star., 1945-02-08
3 0'Conor Measures
For Veterans Given
Approval by Senate
Two Bills to Extend
Compensation Benefits
Are Passed by House
By the Associated Press.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Feb. 8.-Five
administration bills, three Of then
intended to carry out some of the
Governors recommendations fol
statutes applying to war veterans
carried today the approval OF the
General Assembly houses in which
they originated.
Two of the measures would
broaden the base of workmen's
compensation payments. These
were passed in the House OF Dele
gates. Gov. O'Conor's bills on vet
Grams were indorsed by the Senate.
Each must receive the approval
of the opposite houses before going
to the Governor for signature.
The workmen's compensation
bills were those which would in
crease payments to dependents OF
persons dying from injuries suf-
fered in industrial accidents, and
which would add extensively to the
list of compensate occupational
diseases.
Other Bills Studied.
Three other bills relating to work.
mems compensation still were under
consideration by the House OF Dele
gates.
The veterans bills passed in the
Senate were those which would
bring veterans under certain Sec
tions of law relating to COM
mittments to institutions for the
insane, make laws covering vet
Grams of World War I applicable
to veterans of the present war and
make it unlawful for unauthorized
persons to wear military uniforms.
The House of Delegates received
16 new bills while three new meas
ures were introduced in the Senate.
Among the new House measures
were those which would provide
that at least 80 per. cent of en-
ployes in pari-mutuel departments
at Maryland racetracks must be
registered voters in Maryland for
at least four years; make it mis-
demeanor to fail to iget proper
treatment when suffering from
venereal disease and reduce to 18
the age of persons permitted to
drive school buses and other COM
mon carriers.
Many Measures Introduced.
The three new Senate bills were
local in character.
Through yesterday total of 1886
bills had been introduced in the
Senate during the session and 329
in the House.
Altogether the House has passed
II bills, while the Senate has given
its stamp of approval to "a measures.
The House of Delegates also re-
ceived five resolutions, one of which
would request the Legislative Coun-
ell to draw up bills recodifying the
State liquor laws.
Meanwhile the House Ways and
Means Committee was informed that
1925 ,000, 900 would be needed to COM
pletely modernize the State roads
system and put it ''in the condition
1t should be in"
The statement was made by Maj.
Ezra B. Whitman. chairman of the
Roads Commission, at hearing in
which he opposed two bills and a
resolution now in the General As
sembly.
Postwar Fund Reduced.
At the same time, he said, the
commissions anticipated fund for
postwar roads development had
shrunk to between 80 and IS million
dollars from an original 5000 900
estimate because of severe cut in
Federal allotments.
Other committee developments to-
day we're:
A strong appeal by women's, So
cial service and other organizations
was voiced to have juvenile courts
in the counties brought under juris-
diction of the Circuit Court. This
appeal was made at a hearing be-
fore the joint Senate Judicial Pro-
ceedings and House Judiciary Com
mittees.
State Budget Director Walter N.
Kirkman told the Ways and Means
Committee that there was much to
he said for proposed annual budget
system in the State government, but
that there were handicaps, too. On
the debit side, he suggested that the
annual budget especially since it
would require an annual meeting of
the General Assembly to act upon
it-would result in greater expense
to the State.