Vote-Trading Perils 3 Bills: Vote Trade-off Try Threatens Maryland Bills
ANNAPOLIS, March 16 ÛÓ | Gov. Marvin Mandel summoned more than a dozen rebellious Baltimore legislators to his office here tonight in an attempt to halt a complex vote-trading scheme that threatened MandelÛªs statewide land use and legislative scholarship reform bills, as well as a bill to allow higher mortgage interest rates.</br></br>Later, the leadership of the Maryland House of Delegates, resorting to a parliamentary maneuver that finally ended 1 ir wild eight-hour session, cut) off attempts to amend the i land-use bill. The end of de-1 bate over amendments to the j bill set up a final House vote j on the measure by the mid-i die of next week.</br></br>The vote-trading was set off here when delegates from white, working class sections of Baltimore, angry at the loss of their dwindling patronage rights, offered to withdraw support of the land use measure in return for rural legislatorsÛª help in killing the bill that would end a program under which legislators award college scholarships.	\</br></br>whether the governor's personal intervention into the vote-trading scheme would be enough to prevent serious erosion of support of the land-use bill in the powerful Baltimore delegation. ÛÏWhy should we give them up?Û Del. Charles G. Krysiak (D-Baltimore) said of the college scholarships that state senators and delegates are now al\pwed to award.</br></br>ÛÏWe donÛªt get anything else,ÛªÛª he said. ÛÏWc donÛªt have any judges or anyone in the new state lottery agency. The scholarships are the last thing