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ten minutes of controlled time allotted to the minority
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and will rest with the presentation of the committee
report plus hopefully recognition during the period of
any uncontrolled debate that follows. I believe the report,
if you have it before you, speaks for itself. As one of
my waggish friends said, I have come to make another long-
winded speech in favor of brief language in the Constitution.
As you know, the majority proposes that the
General Assembly shall provide by law for a code of ethics
and for the regulation of conflicts of interest for all
elected officials of the State of Maryland. In my opinion
and our opinion this provision should not be made of
Constitutional dimention and inserted in the Constitution.
In the first place, it is unnecessary. No
i sound lawyer in this room can dispute the fact that the
legislature has ample power to adopt the Code of Ethic
for itself and to enact conflict of interest legislation,
not only for all elected officials of this State as pro-
posed by the majority, but indeed for all officials.
Indeed as a matter of fact the argument can be made that
if this provision is put vesting power to enact conflict of