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of the State of Maryland can live for many years to come
and With which they will be happy when we submit it, but
if we go to any drastic measures of dropping the House
of Delegates down to eight or the ridiculous number of
105, then you are curtailing representation all over the
state.
You are making the people of the state of Maryland
feel they are losing their representatives. I say to take
the committee's report of 105 in the House of Delegates
and 55 in the Senate is just about as ridiculous as I
could imagine. We could shock the people of the state of
Maryland no more than to give them one of those two
recommendations.
I say if you want to keep the people of Maryland
happy and make them feel that they have a part in this
state and that they have a chance to vote for representatives
then you better give them representatives in their area.
The only way you are going to be able to distribute
representation is by a house of a similar size of 142.
I have heard some talk about it being unwieldy.
I lived with the House for four years from 1962 to 1966. |
