122 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

Q. Your first judgeship appointment is about to come up. Have you
received any recommendations from bars or from the Baltimore City
Bar Association?

A. Yes, I received recommendations from the Maryland Bar As-
sociation, the City Bar Association, the Municipal Bar and the Plain-
tiffs' Bar associations. The recommendations were submitted on the
basis that this was to be a nonrotating assignment, to be a juvenile as-
signment — no, it was to be a rotating assignment, excuse me. Subse-
quent to that, the Supreme Bench met and decided it was to be a non-
rotating assignment. In other words, it would be a juvenile assignment.
When I heard that, I sent the list back and asked them to reconsider
them in the light that it was a nonrotating assignment and either
submit new lists or the same lists, but at least I would know that they
were being submitted on the basis of the position to be filled, what
was encompassed by the position to be filled. I haven't heard from
them since then.

Q. Mayor McKeldin has indicated that he would like to saddle the
2i/2 percent tax on the City residents over and above the 5 percent
top on the graduated State income tax. Are you disappointed in the
fact that this may be an earnings tax?

A. It's not an earnings tax. I was rather surprised to see certain City
councilmen indicating surprise about the enactment of the additional
tax, which anybody that had any knowledge of the situation knew
had to come to replace the earnings tax. This is a tax collected by the
State, an income tax, subject to the deductions and exemptions that
an income tax is subject to, and it is a surtax to be imposed by the
subdivision, and naturally the City needs it because it won't have the
earnings tax revenue. Everybody understood this, everybody on the
committee, and I doubt if there are very many people in the City that
didn't understand it.

Q. Governor, while we're on taxes, as you know a great many of the
national legislators live in the Washington suburbs in Maryland, and
I think there is a difference of opinion as to whether they can pay
State taxes. What is your view?

A. My view is that if a Congressman is living in the Washington
area as a matter of convenience to his constituents, he should not be
subjected to the Maryland income tax.

Q. One State official, and maybe someone will help me recall exactly
who it was, it may have been our Comptroller, takes a different view.