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Chief Executive has had this duty.
Yet, the Chairman of the Executive Branch stated
yesterday that no other state, so far as he knew, permitted
the delegation of this particular duty, and we know that
the United States does not permit the delegation of this
particular duty.
I suggest, Mr. Chairman, that the duty of making
a bill into law or vetoing a bill is not the trivial sort
of thing that should be lightly given to a private secretary
or even a right-hand man, or right-hand woman.
I suggest that any emergency so serious that this
duty cannot be performed by the Governor himself, or hersel:',
is already taken care of in other provisions of this article,
with regard to the assumption of all the powers of the
Governor.
No urgent reason has been suggested why Maryland
ought to pioneer on this particular matter, and indeed, if
I understand correctly the comments of the Chairman of the
Executive Branch Committee, the Executive Branch Committee
itself did not really focus on this particular matter.
Consequently, I respectfully urge not only the adoption of