Baltimore Evening Sun (31 March 1914): 6.

Though the prohibition amendment of the estimable Anti-Saloon League has been put to death in the House of Delegates, the files of both houses are still full of liquor legislation–local option bills, search-and-seizure bills, gallon-a-month bills, schoolhouse bills, and so on. Working all day Sunday, my agents at Annapolis unearthed no less than 54 of them, as follows:

• HOUSE.
• 9 — Prohibiting sale of liquor within one mile of a church in Garrett county (Shartzer)—Temperance Committee. Unfavorable report. Killed.
• 70 — Local option bill for St, Mary’s county (Jones)–High-license bill substituted by Delegate Wilkinson, of St. Mary’s county. Passed House.
• 79 — Regulating sale of alcoholic liquor in Worcester county (Hagan)—Passed House.
• 81 — To care for inebriates in Balimore city (Baltimore City Delegation)–Passed House and Senate.
• 134 — Regulating licenses and sale of liquor in Frederick county (Wachter)–Passed House, killed in Senate.
• 160 — No license to be granted within two miles of a church in Kingsville, Baltimore county (Watts)—Amended to one mile. Passed House and Senate.
• 201 — Club licenses for Baltimore city, $250 (Reviol)—Amended to $500. Favorably reported.
• 234 — No license to be issued in Clearspring district, Washington (Yourtee)—Unfavorable report. Killed.
• 239 — Permitting heirs of deceased licenses to carry on business in Washington (Hoffman)—Passed House and Senate.
• 249 — Mayor of Baltimore city to appoint Liquor License Commissioners (Frick)—Baltimore city delegation.
• 258 — Selling liquor to minors (Hoffman)—Temperance Committee. Passed House and Senate. This bill compels minors securing liquor to register, and if found guilty of misrepresentation, the minor is penalized and not the seller.
• 306 — Anti-shipping bill for Talbot county (Harrrison)—Temperance Committee.
• 329 — Selling liquor within 2½ miles of Sparrows Point (Gatch)—Unfavorable report. Killed.
• 333 — County-wide local option bill for Carroll county (Wooden)—Passed House.
• 364 — Increase from $250 to $1,000 for liquor licenses for wholesale druggists (Bouse)—Unfavorable report. Killed.
• 365 — No liquor to be sold within two miles of New Market High School, Frederick county (Nelson)—Passed House.
• 398 — Allowing citizens of Brunswick, Md., to vote on license or no license (Nelson)—Unfavorable report. Killed.
• 405 — Regulating sale of liquor and licenses in Allegany county (Bruce)–Unfavorable report. Killed.
• 409 — Licensing clubs in Washington county (Hoffman)–Passed House and Senate.

• 416 — Increasing wholesale grocers’ license from $500 to $1,000 (Bouse)—Temperance Committee.
• 430 — Anti-Saloon League’s State-wide prohibition bill (Mearns)—Unfavorable report. Killed in House.
• 483 — Regulating sale of liquor and licenses in Frederick county (Belt)—Favorably reported.
• 505 — Prohibiting sale of liquor within three miles of a schoolino Prince George’s county (Addison)–Unfavorable report.
• 529 — To vote on local option in 19 districts in Prince George’s county (Addison)—Favorable report.
• 537 — Prohibiting sale of liquor in Govans, Baltimore county (Nagle)—Unfavorable report. Killed.
• 671 — Prohibiting sale of liquor within two miles of a school in St. Mary’s county (Jones)—Favorable report.
• 718 — Amending liquor license law by striking out the right to hypothecate license (Hall)–Favorable report.
• 719 — Giving saloonkeepers the right to appeal on revocation of license (Hall)—Favorable report.
• 733 — Prohibiting the sale of liquor within two miles of the District of Columbia line (Addison)—Temperance Committee.
• 734 — Prohibiting the sale of liquor where females congregate and there are violations of the Sunday laws (Addison)—Temperance Committee.
• 739 — Restaurants and hotels may keep open until 1 A. M. on payment of $1,500 (Bouse)–Amended to $1,250. Favorable report.
• 758 — Prohibiting the sale of liquor within one mile of Mount Pleasant Church, Carroll county (Sayers)—Temperance Committee.
• 759 — Regulating licenses and sale of liquor in Garrett county (Shartzer)–Unfavorable report. Killed.
• 807 — Amending liquor license laws in Baltimore county (Wilkinson)—Temperance Committee.
• 790 — Right to search and seizure in Worcester county (Veazey)—Favorable report.
• 795 — Amending liquor license laws in Baltimore city in reference to bottlers (Bouse)—Temperance Committee.
• 825 — Prohibiting the sale of liquor within two miles of Riggs Mill, Chillum district, Prince George’s county (Van Horn)–Temperance Committee.
• 837 — Anti-shipping bill for Caroline county (Kelly)—Temperance Committee.

• SENATE.
• 1 — County-wide local option bill for Garrett county (Spelcher)—Passed House and Senate.
• 27 — Selling liquor in restricted territory in Anne Arundel county (Watkins)—Temperance Committee.
• 44 — Probibiting soliciting orders for liquor in Kent county (Beck)–Passed.
• 91 — Selling liquor in restricted territory in Garrett county (Spelcher)—Killed.
• 183 — Anti-shipping bill for Caroline county (Cooper)—Temperance Committee.
• 281 — Reducing club licenses to $500 (Ogden)—Favorable report.
• 306 — Sale of liquor near church in Carroll county prohibited (Snader)—Passed.
• 372 — State-wide prohibition bill (Sunder)—Killed in House.

449 — Vote on local option in Carroll county (Snader)—Temperance Commititee.
• 480 — Anti-shipping bill for Queen Anne’s county (Harper)—Temperance Committee.
• 489 — Vote on local option in Charles county (Mudd)—Temperance Committee.
• 515 — Increasing licenses for saloons at Chesapeake Beach (Beck)—Passed.
• 549 — Vote on local option in St. Mary’s county (Chesley)—Temperance Committee.
• 587 — Regulating sale of liquor in Baltimore county (Benson)—Temperance Committee.
• 592 — Anti-shipping bill for Caroline, Queen Anne’s, Talbot, Dorchester, Somerset, Worcester, Kent, Cecil and Wicomico counties–Special Committee of Senators.
• 593 — Right of search and seizure for Worcester county (Harrison)–Temperance Committee.

H. 430, the prohibition amendment, was killed in the House last week by a vote of 57 to 42, and this vote also disposed of S. 372, which was exactly similar in terms. H. 529, providing for prohibition in Govans, was promoted by a clerical uplifter of that fair suburb, but the unfeeling Temperance Committee sat upon it, and it is now dead. H. 734 is the pet of the Lord’s Day Alliance. It prohibits the consumption of alcoholic beverages anywhere save in the bar where they are sold, and is aimed at the drinking groves at Back River. My agents report that it is dead. H. 81 provides for the medical treatment of alcoholics. H. 259 is designed to relieve kaif-keepers who are deceived by minors who pretend to be of age. H. 201, as amended, is identical with S. 281: both are designed to relieve those bona fide clubs that cannot afford to pay the present $1,000 liquor license.

H. 79 is the famous gallon-a-month bill, over which there has been such a row on the Eastern Shore. It limits the amount of booze that a local optionist may bring into dry territory to one gallon of whisky and six dozen bottles of beer a month. Most of the home boozers of the Shore were in favor of a quart a day, and some of them even advocated a gallon a day, but after a long and bitter debate, a gallon a month was decided on. Every adult, whether male or female, is entitled to bring in this much by express. Thus a dry “dry” with a wife and two grown daughters may have four gallons of whisky and 24 dozen bottles of beer a month--enough to keep him agreeably enthusiastic. S. 592 is a blanket bill, extending this benign privilege to the “drys” of all the Eastern Shore counties. Such is prohibition!

Incidentally, has the Rev. Dr. Charles M. Levister heard the sad news from Coatesville, Pa.? If not, I shall be glad to break it to him.