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Proceedings and Debates of the 1967 Constitutional Convention
Volume 104, Volume 1, Debates 1390   View pdf image (33K)
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1390 CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF MARYLAND [Nov. 29]

to me that somewhere you used the sen-
tence that they shall be grouped according
to major purposes.

It seems to me, I thought when I first
read that, that is how you were defining a
principal department, such that the prin-
cipal department had to be something that
had an inherent purpose. It could not be a
department composed of fisheries and mines
and unrelated functions. They had to be
coherent.

DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Morgan.

DELEGATE MORGAN: It is. All these
functions are supposed to be grouped in
not more than 20 departments in accord-
ance with major purposes. That is a very
broad standard, but it does give some indi-
cation as to what is thought of as a prin-
cipal department.

DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Byrnes.

DELEGATE BYRNES: Then the Gen-
eral Assembly is not limited in what it can
do in establishing these general depart-
ments?

DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Morgan.

DELEGATE MORGAN: No.

DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate Byrnes.

DELEGATE BYRNES: On the final
page, am I right in suggesting that the
state's attorneys who appeared before you
left the impression that they would not
look with disfavor upon the requirement
of a commission that they cross-file in pri-
mary and general elections? Would that
be an accurate statement?

DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate Morgan.

DELEGATE MORGAN: It is.

DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Byrnes.

DELEGATE BYRNES: Secondly, would
I be correct in suggesting that the Com-
mittee of the Executive Branch did orig-
inally agree that cross-filing would be re-
quired and that you were going to put this
in the schedule of legislation?

DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Chairman Morgan.

DELEGATE MORGAN: That is correct.

DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate Byrnes.

DELEGATE BYRNES: Not only cross-
file, but running without party designation
and cross-file with party designation?

DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Morgan.

DELEGATE MORGAN: That is correct.

DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Byrnes.

DELEGATE BYRNES: Would I be cor-
rect in saying the reason he did not follow
through was because it was suggested by
President Eney that it was not an ap-
propriate subject matter for scheduled

legislation?

DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Morgan.

DELEGATE MORGAN: That is correct.

DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Any further questions?

Delegate Della.

DELEGATE DELLA: Delegate Morgan,
I direct your attention to section 4.17,
"Return of Vetoed Bills," beginning on
line 15, I think it is. Do you or your Com-
mittee mean that there shall be a special
session to consider vetoed bills?

DELEGATE MORGAN: In the discre-
tion of the General Assembly.

DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate Della.

DELEGATE DELLA: That does not say
so, does it? A special session which may be
convened for the purpose of reconsidering
vetoed bills?

DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Morgan.

DELEGATE MORGAN: May be con-
vened. It does not say shall be.

DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate Della.

DELEGATE DELLA: May any session
consider a vetoed bill after it passes the
General Assembly?

DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate Morgan.

DELEGATE MORGAN: It is the Com-
mittee's intention that the General Assem-
bly be authorized to call itself back into
session to reconsider vetoed bills.

DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Della.

 

 

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