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THE CHAIRMAN: The Chair recognizes
Delegate Gallagher for one minute.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER:. Mr. Chairman and ladies
and gentlemen of the Committee:
I think it should be made quite clear when
the legislature elects a Treasurer, although they are fine
men, that is about the last the legislature sees the
treasurer. As a matter of fact, there is a man sitting
as delegate who tried to buck the individual who was se-
lected by the administration to be Treasurer, and he didn't
make it.
I think all this about representatives of the
Board of Public Works is fine in theory. In practice it
can turn out to be a far different thing than what it is.
The Board of Public Works has but one Constitutional
temporary deficiencies.
purpose, and that is the borrowing of money to meet /
Under the 18b4 Constitution the General Assembly
was given this power. The power has in effect gone from
one place to another.
May I say in summation the question of the
existence of a Board of Public Works seems to me really