Evening star., 1953-01-09
Deadlock Still
Bars Business
In Legislature
Democrats UnubIe
To Break StuIemute
On Senate Leader
By Gene Goodwin
SAn. Staff farraannnelanA

ANNAfO14S, Mo-, Jan. S.-H
Democratic stalemate. which Is
frustrating the opening business
Of the Maryland General Assem-
bly, and delighting the Repub-
licans. vents into its third day
today.
After Is roll-call votes. -four
separate sessions and one two
hour caucus, the Is Democratic
Senators still were unable yes
terday to break a 90 deadlock
on election Of a new Senate
president. Finally at almost
am. today, the Senators decided
to recess until 3 pm. today.
The nine insurgent Democra-
tic Senators, who started it all
by refusing to go along with the
party line in approving Senator
George w. Della for another
term in the Senate'S top job,
were holding firm.
So were the nine loyal" Dem
ocratic Senators.
So were the Republicans, who
could settle the squabble in a
minute, II they wanted to in
terfere.
Throughout the day, the re-
suits Of the voting were monoto-
nously similar-eight votes for
the man the Della faction was
promoting for president pro tenn.
eight votes for the insurgent
candidate, 10 votes for Repub-
lican Senator Robert B. Kimble
Of Allegany County. the party's
floor leader.
Goldstein Real Target.
The insurgents are trying to
put across Senator c. Ferdinand
Sybert of Howard County as
Senate president. The real tar
get of their rebellion, however,
seemed to be Louis L. GoldStein
Of Calvert County. Senate ma
jority leader.
In a two-hour caucus late last
night, called by the Democrats
after the 18th ballot still showed
no break in the deadlock, the
Sybert faction renewed, in writ
ing, an earlier compromise offer.
The Della group apparently
turned it down.
When the caucus broke up,
and the Senate went back into
session, two more roll call votes
were taken-but with the dis
couraging result. Then there
were a couple Of more votes on
how long a recess the chamber
should declare.
The compromise offer, re-
newed by the Sybert group,
would permit the Della faction
to choose between naming the
Senate president and allowing
the insurgents to pick the ma
jority leader and the chairman
Of the Judiciary Committee, or
the other way around.
The factional battle between
the two evenly matched Demo-
cratic groups brought the Gen.
eral Assembly to a stall before
it had barely started it's 90-day
session.
The members Of the House of
Delegates waited in disgust all
day for the Senators to complete
their organization. Finally, at
10:45 pm, the Delegates
marched back into their cham
ber and voted to recess until 8
pm. Monday.
McKeldin Waits, Too.
Also waiting was Gov. Nc
Keldin, who has prepared a
"state = Of the State" address
which he was scheduled to de-
liver to a joint session of the two
houses on Wednesday. Several
bills also were waiting to be in
troduced, and nine measures the
Governor vetoed after the close
Of the 1852 session still must be
considered.
The only persons who seemed
to be enjoying the bitter impasse
were the Republicans, who could
make the final decision If they
wanted to.
But their leader here, Senator
Kimble, said they Have decided
not to interfere until the Demo-
Gratis seem to be permanently
deadlocked."
Asked how long the stalemate
would have to go on before the
Republicans might throw enough
Of their votes behind either Mr..
Della or Mr.. Sybert to give one
Of them the required 15-vote
majority, Mr.. Kimble indicated
his group would consider such
an action, If the deadlock were
not broken today.
"If it looked as If the stale
mate was going to carry over
into the week end," Mr.. Kimble
told a reporter, I'VE probably
would consider it our public
duty to step in and make it pos
sible for the Assembly to get
down to business"
The impasse was the first Of
the kind in the history Of the
Maryland legislation.
Mahoney Gets Nowhere.
Even the Democratic brass
seemed to give up all hope
yesterday Of settling it.
The only Democratic leader
outside the Legislature who ap-
peared to be trying to arbitrate
the feud was George P. Ma
honey. unsuccessful Democratic
candidate for the United States
Senate last November. He ad-
mitted he was getting nowhere.
On Wednesday DR.. H. c. Byrd,
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