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tions, with a hope that the Senate would give an example of
the budget idea, but have waited in vain. Bill after Bill has
been introduced, granting appointing powers to the executive
head, that have hitherto been unknown except with the con-
sent of the Senate. I am now impressed that it is my duty to
vote against these dangerous steps that centralize power and
leave the people generally without their constitutional repre-
sentation. Instead of taking these matters out of politics, it
is giving the executive a monopoly on politics. Measures to
reduce expense and to economize have been suggested, but even
they do not materialize.

Suggestions that one member only be paid on the State
Roads Commission, or that the State Roads Chief Engineer
be authorized and empowered to continue the State road
work, have been made. Nothing has been done, although the
last day of the Session of 1916 is in sight and the wilderness
is as dense as ever. This being true, I no longer can lend
my assistance to such uncertainty, and therefore vote against
this Bill.

BILLS—THIRD READING.

The President laid before the Senate, Bills for a third
reading as follows:

SENATE BILL No. 239, BY MR. JONES.
SUBJECT: HONEY BEES.

Which was read the third time and passed by yeas and nays
as follows:

AFFIRMATIVE.

Messrs. —

President Chesley Holmead Mudd Warfield
Allen Collier Johnson Norris Williams
Archer Cooper Jones Ogden Zihlman
Bennett Duvall Joy Parsons
Bomberger Frick Kaufman Shepherd
Brown Harrison Legg Speicher Total—27

NEGATIVE—None.
[Said Bill was then sent to the House of Delegates. ]

Also

SENATE BILL No. 361, BY MR. KAUFMAN.
SUBJECT: MONOCACY AND URBANA TURNPIKE
COMPANY.