Evening star., 1950-02-25
Maryland Assembly
May Complete Action
Today on Lane Budget
BY the Assoeioted Press

IUudy Un loIlt Duuycl
BY the Assoeioted Press
ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 25.-A tax
revolt apparently quelled. the
General Assembly manned sta
tions for possibly its last vote on
Maryland's budget today.
Senators and delegates re-
mained overnight in Annapolis
for their first Saturday meeting
of this short session.
Yesterday afternoon they put
through the last of the admins
tration's tax cut bills, which IN
total will keep 81 1,250,000 in Mary
landers' pocketbooks that other
wise would be paid the State
treasury.
And the Senate, convening long
after dark, struck what appeared
to be the finishing blow on a move
to cut S3.5 millions from State
revenues.
BY strict party vote in all but
one instance, the Senate defeated
a Republican-inspired measure to
allow Marylanders to deduct Fed
eral income taxes in computing
She. amount on which they must
pay the States income levy. The
count was 15-11.
Monday Is Deadline.
Ways and Means committee
men assembled in midmorning to
complete their study of the ao-
ministration's $144,203,564 appro-
priations bill. It was scheduled
for second reading in the full
House this afternoon. Third and
final reading could be ordered
later in the day under a suspen-
sion of the rules. but the House
leadership was close Tipped on
strategy.
A conclusive vote must be taken
by Monday. unless the House
adopts an old procedure of turn
ing back the clock so that tech
nically it acts as of the preceding
legislative day.
Gov. Lanes record appropria-
tions bill includes S14. ,557,308 for
the 1851 f1scal-year budget. The
balance would be spent in def
cheney appropriation for the rest
of this fiscal year ending June 80.
The Legislature moved along
swiftly yesterday on the adminis-
tration's major money projects.
Three Republicans Oppose.
The Senate passed the $144,-
2o3,564 budget with only three
Observation-Disclosures it.
A fourth Republican, Senator
Monroe, of Charles told the Sen
ate he reluctantly voted for
"Maryland's worst budget"
The House was to take UP the
huge appropriation bill today. It
is already under study in the
Ways and Means Committee.
Gov. Lanes tax relief program,
"a $1.250,000 slash, received the
Legislatures final approval with
passage of the last of the four
measures comprising the program.
Both Houses approved the meas
ure granting special $1,000 ex-
emption for each taxpayer or
spouse who is IS or over, and a
special $500 allowance for de-
pendents of that age group.
The previously enacted bills of
the tax cut program included:
One, increasing from S100 to
$500 the limit on investment in
comes for taxpayers eligible to use
the short-form tax return and its
fiat per cent rate.
Two companion measures in
creasing deductions for dependents
from S40O to 5000.
Administration Set Back.
But a battle developed over ef-
forts to deepen the tax cuts and
the administration suffered a
first-round setback on that score
in the House.
There a Republican-ba backed bill
to permit Federal income tax de-
ductions in paying State taxes was
advanced to final vote.
Dissident Democrats joined, the
minority party in overriding the
powerful House Ways and Means
Committee, which had rendered an
unfavorable report on the bill.
Administration leaders, hostile
to the COP income tax bills, drew
plans to beat down the Federal
levy allowance measure when it
comes up for third reading in the
House.
Enactment of the bill would cost
Maryland an estimated $3.5 mil
lion to SIS million in lost revenue.
A bill passed by the Senate
would make legitimate the chill
dren Of any marriage annulled or
for which complete divorce de-
cree is entered.
Among bills passed by the House
was a measure requiring that the
present Severn River bridge at An
napolis be kept open to traffic after
new bridge is built farther north.
Another would authorize the town
OF North Beach to borrow up to
$250,000 for sewer system.
Arlington Ministers to Meet
The Arlington Ministerial Asso-
citation will meet at noon Tuesday
at the Church of the Epiphany,
2001 North Quincy street, Arling-