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DELEGATE JOHNSON: Yes. Unfortunately,
I don't have that before me. I have some notes. I wonder
if the Chair would excuse me long enough to get them.
THE CHAIRMAN: Certainly.
DELEGATE JOHNSON: Mr. Chairman, ladies and
gentlemen:
Hopefully, without repeating myself as containe
in the report of the minority, let me add that it is the
desire and wish of the minority to see some check on judi-
cial authority with respect to the administration of
courts, but frankly the main reason is to remove the courts
from what we consider to be a legislative function, and we
feel that this may be affected in part by having commis-
sioners selected according to the procedures established
as provided by law.
I think that we have to look at this in the
light of the possibility that the judicial budget, the
judicial package, may or may not be subject to legislative
review.
There is some question in my mind, and I think
in most minds, concerning to what extent the legislature