Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-02-25
/ eacher Pay Raise
Bill Near House Vote
Sales Tax Action
Also Slated for
EorIy in Week
By GENE GOODWIN
star staf Correspondent !

ANNAfOLlS, req. 20. - Inc
Maryland House of Delegates will
take final vote early next week
lon bills to raise teacher salary
minimums by $500 and pay them
with 8 per cent sales tax.
The Delegates last night
turned down an alternate scheme
Ito finance the increase with q
higher income tax. They also
adopted favorable reports from
the House Ways and Means
Committee on the pay bill and
the companion sales tax measure.
The House, in another action.
taken after one of the longest
and hottest debates Of this 30
day session, gave seminal APP
proval, on a 74-38 vote. to a bill
aimed at keeping Canadian
brewery from opening a plant
in Maryland.
Senate Shaves Report
And the Senate, meeting past
midnight for the first time this
session, adopted a series Of
amendments trimming total OF
only $194,5 69 out of Gov. Nc
IKeldin's budget. Earlier. the
Governor sent to the Legislature
his annual supplement to the
budget, which proposes addi-
tional expenditures Of more than
81 million and raises the total
budget figure to nearly 5000
million.
The vote on rejecting the in
come tax increase was Sc to A.
Proponents of the bill argued
that the sales tax hurts the
poor people"
House Majority Leader A.
Gordon Boone. defending the
Ways and Means Committees
decision to finance the teachers
Ipay increase with a higher sales
tax, said that levy falls on
every person in the State"
with the income tax, on the
other hand, the people with the
most children pay less" Mr..
Boone added.
How Tax Would Apply
Under the committees bill. the
sales tax would go up from 2 to
10 cents on purchases over 66
cents. Between 81 and 66 cents
lit would remain at 2 cents. It
would be 4 cents from 81 to S1.35,
S cents from $l.36 to $1.65. 6
cents from $l.66 to 50. and so
on UP.
/ If the teacher pay and sales
tax measures are approved in
the final House test when they
come up early next week. pos
sibly on Monday. they still will
have to pass the Senate.
I The beer bill that passed its
first House test last night got by
the Senate earlier last week on
a 22-to-4 vote. It was sponsored
by Senate President Louis L.
Goldstein and is being stoutly
supported here by Maryland's six
brewel1es, who claim that the
big Canadian brewery would at
tempt to swallow them up. The
Canadian brewery in question is
1.-THE Carvings CO. of Montreal,
which has an option on site
in Baltimore County for a S12
million plant.
Fought by wilkinson
Delegate Perry o. wilkinson,
Democrat of Prince Georges. led
the floor fight against the bill,
arguing that the bill is contrary
to the free enterprise theory in
that it would bar any foreign
owned brewery from opening a
plant in the Free State.
! This is just like passing a law
to say that there can't be any
insurance agent in Hyattsville
except me-" declared Mr.. Wilkin-
Ison, who is one of several insur-
Iance agents in Hyattsville.
I Delegate Jerome Robinson,
Democrat of Baltimore, said that
hospitality is fine. but we don't
open our doors to an avowed
killer of competition"
I On the vote all Prince Georges
land Montgomery Delegates ex-
Icept the lone Republicar-Gil-
bert Guide of Montgomery-voted
against the measure. One of the
Representatives for earrings
working against the bill here is
former Representative Lansdale
G. Sasscer of Upper Marlboro.
Most of the budget cuts APP
proved by the Senate early to-
day were of minor import. except
one reducing from 80 to so the
number of new State policemen
authorized for next fiscal year.