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that many times we had a Comptroller on their who had to
listen to the taxpayers' gripes and we have held that when
it came time to expend money that probably he would be a little
more conservative, and so this takes the heart out of every-
thing, and if you talk about compromise, I don't call it a
compromise. I say it is a complete defeat and to put an
officer like this in the State Constitution is going against
every precept and concept that we had in formulating a
Constitution.
Just give us the sap and say he is a Constitutional
Officer, Mr. President and Members of the Constitution, does
not please me and you are going against everything that you
stood for when you said that you shouldn't have anything in
the Constitution that didn't constitutionally belong there and
have constitutional dimensions. The Governor and the Legis-
lature of this State can create this Paymaster that you create
by this Amendment and you are not preserving the Office of
Comptroller as an elected official except somebody in name.
We do not need an elective Paymaster for the State of Mary-
land. I will have to go against this Amendment.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Adkins?