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I understand it, so I don't get worried about it because
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I have been in the business, ond they want to keep control
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of the boys in the City Council, the members of the Legis-
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lature, so that's it; it is a peculiar reason, but that's
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it,
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JUDGE ADKINS: Well, Governor, apparently we
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have, or Mr. Mayor, apparently we have exhausted our
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questions.
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We very much appreciate your taking time to
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help us out. If you have any other thoughts, we would be
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very happy to receive them now even, or at any time in
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the future.
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MAYOR McKELDIN: Take the Governor's salary
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out of the Constitution, let me conclude with that.
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JUDGE ADKINS: I think we all agree, at least
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the sub-committee, that this ought to be done.
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MAYOR McKELDIN: No governor would put it on
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the ballot. Being a Republican, I knew I couldn't be
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elected again. I put it on the ballot but I fooled myself,
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and I was elected, and it passed, they still kept it in the
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Constitution, and increased the salary to 15,000 which, of
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