94 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [Jan. 24

By the President, by request:

WHEREAS, There will soon be pending in the General Assem-
bly of Maryland a Bill submitting1 the question of the prohibi-
tion of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquor for bever-
age purposes to the registered and qualified voters of the
State of Maryland; and

WHEREAS, This measure simply takes the liquor question
out of politics and places it in the hands of the people? where
it belongs; and

WHEREAS, The sale of liquor and the license system is the
cause of untold misery, suffering, vice, crime and death, de-
bauching our homes, corrupting our politics, ruining our man-
hood, despoiling our. womanhood, blighting the lives of
thousands of our children and is opposed to all those princi-
ples of rectitude and righteousness for which the Church of
Jesus Christ stands; therefore, be it

Resolved, That the Federated Associations of Methodist Men
of Baltimore and Vicinity, composed of representatives from
the men's organizations of the Methodist Episcopal, Methodist
Episcopal South and Methodist Protestant Churches of the
City of Baltimore and vicinity, having a voting constituency
of not, less than twenty-five thousand voters, do hereby send
kindly greetings to the members of the General Assembly of
Maryland and do most earnestly and urgently request the
speedy passage of the State-wide Referendum Bill on the liquor
question. As American citizens, we demand the right for the
voters of the whole State to decide this question for ourselves;
and be it further

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the
President of the Senate of Maryland and the Speaker of the
House of Delegates.

Signed by the President and Secretary of the Federated
Associations of Methodist Men of Baltimore and Vicinity, this
18th day of January, A. I)., 1916.

DANIEL BAKER, President.
ELMER J. JONES, Secretary.

[Which was read and referred to the Committee on Temper-
ance. ]

By Mr. Holmead:

Ordered, That the State Printers furnish 200 copies Re-
vised Rules of Senate for the sum of $47. 50; same to be
taken from appropriation for State Printing for this session.

[Which was read and referred to the Committee on Fi-
nance. ]