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effort to find a liberal lender, have been embarrassed, so

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we find ourselves in the position in Mississippi of being

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confronted by bankers in Maryland saying, "We will make it

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difficult for you to take office because if you win we

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shall make it impossible for you to take your seat because

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of the color of your skin."

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I hate to keep bringing' this before you, but I

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ask in this spirit to let us delete this from our

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constitution and let us leave it up to our legislature

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to find a means of establishing bail where it is necessary

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to cover and protect our own state interest, financially

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and otherwise.

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We have made plans for doing this in our budget

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by some method that will not leave people dependent on the

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whims of lending institutions.

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I hope that this proposed deletion will receive

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your support. Thank you.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Koss.

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DELEGATE KOSS: Mr. Chairman, I would like,

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if I might, to address a question to Delegate White.

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I wonder, if that language is deleted from this