314 ADDRESSES AND STATE PAPERS

stitute one of the said departments [meaning those enumerated
above] are placed in the said departments as hereinafter provided;
and every State office, board, commission or other governmental
agency created during this or any subsequent session of the Gen-
eral Assembly [and as the incumbent Governor I certainly quar-
rel a little bit with the enacting General Assembly, which ap-
parently originally was in 1922, trying to control future General
Assemblies] shall be placed in one of said departments. Each of
the said departments shall be constituted and shall have and
exercise the rights, powers, duties, obligations and functions here-
inafter provided. Any officers, boards or commissions not referred
to in this article shall not be affected hereby.

You see that there is an attempt to group all agencies within this
structure, which to me takes a measure of flexibility away from the
executive branch. I think that the greatest flexibility in the organiza-
tion of the executive branch should remain with the Governor subject,
of course, to the control of the legislature. I don't quarrel with the
idea that the legislature should set forth broad categories of service,
such as transportation or natural resources or safety, or whatever the
case may be. But when they try to designate the actual names of the
groupings to go together, I think they are sort of hamstringing what
should be a very malleable situation, flexible to meet the needs of the
present day.

Another section of Article 41 which was enacted as far back as 1888
purports to set up a cabinet for the Governor. Now again, I don't
quarrel with the legislative branch having control over the very broad
checks and balances that are necessary to keep the executive branch
in line, but it seems to me if we have two hundred and forty agencies
of the state government, which we do have at the present time, it's
much better for the Governor to decide, based on modern day condi-
tions, which agencies are going to comprise the cabinet, instead of
having them set forth by statute. Now these are the ones that they
listed, and some of them, of course, would have to be included, others
may not: the State Comptroller, the State Treasurer, the Attorney
General, the Chairman of the State Board of Education, the President
of the State Board of Agriculture and the University of Maryland, the
Director of Correction, the Director of Public Welfare, the Director of
Health, the Director of Public Works, the Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles, the Police Commissioner of Baltimore City, the Chairman of
the Board of Natural Resources, and the Commissioner of State Em-
ployment and Registration. And it may well be that each one of