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Those who urge a number are not opposed to representative
government. We are interested in effective government, and
representation can become such a runaway cause that
efficiency, indeed effectiveness, may well disappear from
the General Assembly.
All I ask this Committee to do today is to
provide the avenue of maximum efficiency with maximum
representation. We have told you that the members of the
General Assembly do not want to fix their numbers.
Why should we give them a job which is ours,
and which they do not want? How long do you think it
will take for them to straighten out the matter of
numbers if we entrust them with that responsibility? This
is a Constitutional matter. This has to do with the
future success of the General Assemblies of the State of
Maryland. This has to do, ladies and gentlemen, with
whether or not the people who come down here will attend
to matters which they ought to attend to, and not to
matters of internal concern.
I submit to you that this is not a question of
whether a small county will have a voice or not. The |
