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the quasi-judicial power?
THE CHAIRMAN:' Delegate Sybert.
DELEGATE SYBERT: I think a crony appointed
by the Governor, that more often the appointee of the
Governor, sometimes I think it might be a crony of the
Governor who doesn't know too much about fiscal affairs
would be less apt to be as efficient as an elective Con-
troller who has had to expose himself to the people on
his excellent record and satisfy the people so as to elect
him Comptroller of the State, I think it is safer under
our present system.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Byrnes.
DELEGATE BYRNES: I am trying to narrow down
it
in my own mind what your position is. You certainly stated/
very adequately. Let me make sure that I have it clarified.
It seems to me you might be saying that the
chief function, the great asset to the people in the
Comptroller is found by the fact that he sits on the Board
of Public Works, not so much that he is Comptroller and head
of the Treasury Department. I think this is a very funda-
mental distinction that Judge Adkins alluded to when he sail
that theComptroftr's responsibilities, qua Comptrollflr or