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attorney general or be handled by someone
else?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: The Committee
adopted language giving broad authority to
the General Assembly to prescribe duties,
additional duties for the attorney general
with respect to civil and criminal cases and
proceedings, and I think in all of the
matters that were covered by your ques-
tion could be taken care of by the General
Assembly.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Hargrove.
DELEGATE HARGROVE: Is it antici-
pated the General Assembly would cover
these areas? You can see they would be
left sort of dangling with nobody to in-
vestigate, and perhaps if there is no law
when something1 would have to be done if
the General Assembly is not in session
they would have to wait until they come
back before they could enact a law covering
these matters, and by that time there would
be chaos.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Hargrove,
the Chair would anticipate from Chairman
Morgan's earlier presentation that the
Committee would anticipate that the Gen-
eral Assembly would not only have the
power but would exercise the power to
implement this section and prescribe in
more detail the duties of the attorney
general.
Was that your statement, Delegate Mor-
gan?
DELEGATE MORGAN: That is correct,
Mr. Chairman.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Rybczyn-
ski.
DELEGATE RYBCZYNSKI: Mr. Chair-
man, with your permission perhaps we
could give Chairman Morgan a rest for a
moment and allow me to make this state-
ment.
One of the greatest thrills of my lifetime
has been meeting and working with the
delegates of this Convention, and now from
time to time it has become our mutual
pleasure to meet the spouses and children
of our delegates here in the Convention
hall and outside the Convention hall.
At this time, Mr. Chairman, it is my
pleasure to introduce a very fine woman
who I have met on two other occasions, the
spouse of one of our very fine delegates,
Mrs. Penniman, who is to your left over-
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head, over in the corner, and with her are
their three children. That little group up
there is Matthew, next to him is Cathy,
and seated above them is Bill, who is a
sophomore at Allegheny College.
(Applause.)
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Pullen.
DELEGATE PULLEN: Mr. Chairman,
may I continue for a moment thin delight-
ful interlude.
Judge Henderson and I request the Con-
vention to join us in congratulating a dis-
tinguished Maryland couple on their 25th
wedding anniversary today, Dr. Felix Mor-
ley and Mrs. Morley.
Dr. Morley was editor of the Wash-in ff -
ton Pont, president of Harvard College,
radio commentator and author.
Judge Henderson and I regret that owing
to a deep and abiding sense of duty and a
pressing concern as to what might happen
in the deliberations in respect to preamble,
rights and education in our absence, we
cannot attend the luncheon celebration at
the Gibson Island Club at high noon today
on this great occasion.
(Applause.)
TPIE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Koger?
DELEGATE KOGER: Delegate Morgan,
I am not very clear on this.
If the governor pressures to build a
bridge overland which use is questionable,
and the governor's personal attorney says
it is all right and the attorney general says
it is not, which decision would prevail?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: Is this if the
State wants to buy some property?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Koger.
DELEGATE KOGER: The State would
like to buy some property and its use is
questionable, and it requires some legal
decision or the benefit of some legal in-
terpretation. The governor's personal at-
torney says it is all right but the attorney
general says it is not all right. Now, how
would you decide or how would the people
g-et the best benefit from the decision?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: I think the gov-
ernor could take either opinion he wanted
to. Of course, he would have to be responsi-
ble for what he did.
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