Evening star., 1949-02-24
Gov. Lane LIST
0fAppointments
Expected Today
Legislature Will Get
Nominations; z Bills
Due to Be Debated
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
ANNAPOLIS, Feb. "a. - The
today was to receive the
"greenbag" list of hum
dreds of executive appointments,
ranging from those of department
heads to justices of the peace and
public. !:
Also expected today are:
/. A House floor fight over bill
to ban Sunday sales of beer. wine ;.
and liquor throughout Maryland;
2. A House Ways and Means
Committee discussion of a tax
cut" subcommittee proposal to
slash allowances made by Gov.
Lane to Is State agencies in his
budget bill, and to take $2,000.000
from the surplus account of the
accident fund.
The Governor secluded himself
all of yesterday to work on his
greenbag. The appointments are
to Senate approval.
Alcohol Bill Gets Bad Report.
The House Alcoholic Beverages
Committee voted an unfavorable
report yesterday on bill by Dele
gate Deran, Democrat, of Hart
ford County to ban alcoholic
beverages sales on Sundays.
Mr.. Deran announced he would
lead a floor fight to override the
report when it reached the floor
for consideration today.
Thirteen counties now ban
Sunday liquor sales. Mr.. Deran's
bill would dry up" the other 10
and Baltimore City on the Sab
bath. too.
The Ways and Means Subcom-
mittee appointed to study the
Governors budget urged in a re-
port yesterday that it be cut more
than $5,000,000.
Gov. Lanes initial budget, to be
followed by a supplemental ap-
propriations bill, calls for record
outlay of $13O,8OO,OO0 for the IL
months starting July /. Expend-
itures for the current fiscal year
will total about 100000.
Among the cuts suggested was
one of S1,27O,OO0 from State Roads
Commission appropriations for
overall operations and another for
a 100000 reduction in the Uni
versity of Maryland's general fund
allowance.
Scholarship Bill Rejected.
The major proposal of the SUBJ
group was that 100000 be
transferred from the State accl-
dent fund surplus account and be
used to reduce taxes.
During Yesterdays session the
Senate adopted an unfavorable
taommittee report on, a measure
which would have taken the right
Ito award college scholarships
from State Senators and placed
their distribution in the hands OF
the Department of Education.
Senator Storm, Democrat, OF
Frederick County applied the
"clincher" motion to block further
consideration of the bill-or one
like it-but President Byrnes said
he would entertain any subsequent
legislation on the SAME point.
In the House, the complicated
series of motions ending in a
"clincher" effectively kills a bill.
The House Banking, Insurance
and Social Security Committee
voted against a measure to raise
the maximum weekly unemploy-
ment compensation payment from
S25 to $50 and liberalize eligibility
requirements for jobless pay
benefits.
Labor Bill Opposed.
Shortly before the committee
acted, the bills sponsors, Delegates
Reed and See, Republican, OF
Allegany County, placed another
one in the House hopper contain-
ing many of the same provisions.
In earlier committee hearings.
a proposed 40-hour week for
Maryland workers was strenuously
opposed by an array of business
men. Some not only condemned
the measure, which would require
time and a half for more than
eight hours a day or 40 per week.
but upbraided the Department OF
Labor and Industry. Department
Chairman Joseph F. Didomenico
favored the proposal.
The Maryland League OF Women
Voters said yesterday it will press
passage of the child labor bill
without crippling amendments,
at a hearing at 3 pm. Tuesday
before the Senate Labor Com
mittee.
Mrs. Willard F. Barber of Sill
yer Spring, acting president, said
the league specifically opposes any
amendments which would permit
minors to come in contact with
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