Evening star., 1951-03-13
7th Maryland
District Voted
ByState Senate
Democratic Version oil
Congressional Setup
Would Change 5th
By J. /. MichoeI
Stor Stoff Correspondent

St0T St0it SCiE6SPOuoeHf
ANNAPOLIS, Mar. ia DEM
ocratic bill to carve out of Balti-
more a new 7th Maryland con-
gressional district is in the House
of Delegates today. III
BY a 15-to-11 tally, the ma
jority party last night overrode
the 10 Republican Senators pres
ent and one dissenting Democrat.
He was Senator Francis x. Dippel
of Baltimore, who said he voted
against the measure because 81
feel it would set up a Republican
district In Maryland"
"One would think" he added,
"that when Democrats have the
whip hand, they would enact leg
islation beneficial to the party"
Republican Senator Stanford
Hoff of Carroll County pointed
out that the 1st district would
have a population of 209, 900, while
the 5th would embrace 100000.
Such a discrepancy" he de-
clared, makes the plan a mon
strosity" ,.
Republican Program Withheld.
Senator Hoff's party had a re-
districting program of its own,
but withheld it because it could
not muster the votes necessary to
enact it into law.
Under the new setup, Balti-
more would have three congress
sional districts, the Sd, 4th and
7th. The city now has two dis
tricts, one of which, the I'd, has
a population of 10000. The new
I'd district would be drawn around
Baltimore. Carroll and Hartford
Counties.
The new boundary lines slightly
change the 5th District in
Southern Maryland but leave I'M
affected the 1st on the Eastern
Shore, and the 9Th, Western
Maryland, including Montgomery
County.
Unanimously, the Senate in an
other action approved and sent
to the House bill to give State
policemen $300-a-year pay
raise.
That boost, however, was criti-
cized by Senator Dewitt S. Hyde,
Republican. of Montgomery, who
said it is not enough.
S1,800 Starting Pay.
cit is almost criminal" he de-
clared, ''for the State to pay such
small salaries to men who perform
such important duties" Starting
pay for patrolmen, he said, is
$1,000, and captains, after many
years of service, get only $3,400."
Majority Floor Leader Louis L.
Goldstein of Calvert County re-
piled that State policemen, in
addition to their salaries, receive
per diem compensation for food
and expenses and are given cloth
ing and other allowances.
Il think you will find" he said,
shat on the whole they fare
fairly we'll"
Meanwhile, Minority Leader
Robert B. Kimble of Allegany
County. introduced a bill to trans
fer from the State Roads Com
mission to general funds part of
pot of gold" he says will
finance a S300-a-year pay in
crease for school teachers for the
next three years.
He also offered a measure to
raise the tax on corporations from
4 to S per cent-a plan which. If
approved, would return an esti-
mated $36 million annually.
SIS Million Bonanza.
Senator Kimble's SIS million
bonanza has accumulated in the
title tax fund of the roads COM
mission and is used to pay of
the States 500 million highway
construction bonds and to finance
new road programs.
His plan faces stiff opposition
from the roads commission and
could be nullif1ed by bill pending
in the House, which would amend
the State constitution to specify
that all taxes collected by the
Department of Motor Vehicles be
used only for road building and
maintenance.
A bill to be introduced today
by Senator John r. Fletcher. Re-
publican, Of Prince Georges Coun-
ty, would exempt State police from
provisions of a present statute.
That law requires peace officers
in the county to turn to the prop
erty clerk. within 48 hours, any
money or other property coming
into their possession in the course