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however, feel quite confident that this Convention will,
in its mature judgment, approach this question as it has
all others heretofore presented, and will judge it in
terms of what is best for the long range governance of this
State.
We are recommending to you that a long-time
elected office in the Constitution shall be eliminated as
a constitutional office, and we do so for reasons which
through thought and testimony we consider completely
valid reasons. I ask you to consider with me for a few
moments what those reasons are.
I do not need to tell this sophisticated and
distinguished group what the duties of the Comptroller are.
They are set forth currently in the Majority Report. They
are set forth in the Report of the Commission. All of you
have had sufficient experience with the government of
Maryland to know in essence that the functions of the Comp-
troller basically are to be the fiscal manager of the
State.
We are thus faced with a situation where we
have an Executive Department, one of the most, if not the