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edge for several weeks now, and that is whatever the Legislature de-
cides to do with regard to these programs, whether it is a tuition waiv-
er program, whether it's a program related to the Senate scholar-
ships or any other scholarships, I have said consistently that I will
fund the legislative mandate. This is 110 surprise to you, gentlemen;
I know I have said it to you on at least two occasions. So that the
whole question turns on one that really is an artificial issue. And I
might say this also. A bill cannot be unconstitutional; only a law can
be unconstitutional. No law has been enacted.

Q. Governor, I think the question now is what step will you take?
Will this be funded in the supplemental budget?

A. The answer is that it will either be funded in the supplemental
budget or that there will be a transfer which Mr. Slicher, the Budget
Director, tells me is entirely proper and has been done in the past to
make certain that whatever the Legislature does is properly funded.

Q. The transfer must be made at your suggestion, not the Legis-
lature's?

A. That is correct.

Q. There is a second question of what would happen if the Legis-
lature should enact your bill to expand the loan program and also
decide to retain the scholarship program.

A. Jim, I don't know if it involves additional monies; I would as-
sume it would have to be done by supplementary appropriation.

Q. This is with the assumption that you will have more money?

A. Well, where the Legislature has created a program that's not
funded, it is carried over to the following year. That's the way it
operates.

REMARKS AT ALLEN-LINCOLN-DOUGLASS
BANQUET, WASHINGTON, D. C.

February 9, 1968

On its 151st Anniversary, the A. M. E. Church continues to serve
in the finest tradition of Bishop Richard Alien, its founder, of
Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass.

The A. M. E. Church's sponsorship of Kittrell Junior College re-
flects the continued emphasis on the importance of Negro education
which Frederick Douglass stressed over a century ago.