opportunities. And there is every prospect that the total number will
steadily increase and—regrettably—undoubtedly grow ever more com-
plicated.

Just in the field of urban transportation, for example, over 40
federal programs of financial aid already are offered. These funds
are programmed through 13 federal departments and agencies and
contemplate varying participation by State and local authorities. In
the face of the proliferation of federal programs and the competition
from other states for available funds, Maryland must make sure that
it gets its full share. At the same time, it must be recognized that one
of the really significant developments in American government in
the middle third of this century is the accumulating network of con-
trols by federal agencies over state and local administrative offices.
The increasing mass of administrative machinery at all levels of
government makes it more and more difficult to assert direction and
supervision over this development. Institutional means must be
evolved to oversee these separate channels of administrative power.

In that connection, we recently opened a Washington office to
help expedite the State's administrative business with federal agencies.
But there is still need to relate the diverse State administrative con-
tacts with the federal government far more closely. I want to say,
however, that I believe far more than better intergovernmental co-
ordination is necessary if we are going to keep in balance our federal
system. The Congress should apply to a broad spectrum of federal
programs the principle embodied in the federal poverty program, that
allows a Governor final authority before federal projects which are
primarily state or local in nature are introduced into the state. At a
minimum, the principle of popular control of our governmental system
requires better means be found to oversee the expanding influence of
the federal administrative apparatus in the individual states.

I say that not to acclaim states rights but state responsibility. Nor
do I make that observation in any implied criticism of the constructive
and farsighted new federal programs becoming available. The federal
structure is the genius of our system of government. But it also pre-
sents problems of power and administration that require fresh at-
tention, particularly with the advent of the many new domestic pro-
grams of President Johnson's Great Society. A major objective of the
reorganization study should be to devise imaginative new mechanisms
to assure that the State is not just a passive recipient of federal hand-
outs but a full partner at both the policy and administrative stage of
problems and programs on which local, State and national agencies

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