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1	so that no Governor would ever act in an arbitrary manner
2	on a removal or on an appointment? Do you think the ad-
3	visory board would fill that function, in other words,
4	the State Department of Welfare, the State Board became
5	an advisory board; Mental Hygiene became an advisory board;
6	Education became an advisory board, would those, would
7	the existence of those boards act as the limitation that
8	was bothering you that there should not be a complete un-
9	restricted power in the Governor on the department heads?
10	GOVERNOR LANE: It depends on hew it will work.
11	I can't say Yes, because I am not convinced that that
12	would be sufficient. I can't say No, because when you want
13	to get rid of someone -- well, I had the problem once,
14	and I won't name the department, it had a board of something
15	like three members, end there was a division of opinion
16	about how the thing should be run, and two of the members
17	came down and sat with me four or five times to tell me
18	their troubles, and they were down there about five or six
19	times, and I called to their attention finally that they
20	were a majority of that board, why didn't they straighten
21	it out, I was only the Governor, and I said, I am now think