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1	about that. Tom Pullen went down to Annapolis and stirred
2	around and the nuts and bolts of it is, of course, that
3	killed the bill and nobody would ever admit authorship of
4	the bill, which is another very interesting thing, although
5	it was stated from time to time that Dr. Flack had done it.
6	Now, why accuse. Dr. Flack, I don't know, by anyway — well,
7	there hasn't been any serious, so far as I know, assault
8	on this provision, if you want to call it that, or question
9	ing of this provision since that time and I was wondering
10	whether or not in the deliberations of the Sobeloff
11	Commission this question came up and on the Wolff Committee
12	and whether or not any research was done, any judgments made
13	MR. DONAHO: They tried at first to confine them-
14	selves, I think very wisely, at least after the discussions
15	were concerned, to that which they thought they could
16	accomplish, and I don't recall too much time or discussion
17	was spent on the. mandatory school problem. The only thing
18	that bothered me about it, Jim Sensenbaugh just put his
19	finger on the fact that the legislature adopts the laws
20	which specify the formulas under which the school budget is
21	developed. So, from that standpoint, it is also true that