1967]                   OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES                        21

The roll was called resulting as follows:

Affirmative

Delegates—

Athey, Lipin, Thomason, Burkhead, Connell, Helms, Anderson, Fornos, Benner,
Arata, Coolahan, Malone, Deitrich, Hinkel, Jensen, Hutchinson, Jones, Kardash,
Schirano, Einschutz, Evans, Rush, Arnick, D'Anna, Minnick, Donovan, Hickman (R.),
Dypski, Krysiak, Burns, Curran, Kent, Kircher, McQuade, O'Brien, Murphy, Rutkowski,
Weisengoff, Hoffman, Becker, Cook (E. P.), Burgess, Warfield, Long, White, Aiken.

Total—46

Negative

Delegates—

Mr. Speaker, Briscoe, Fowler, Boyer, Allen, Compton, Nimmerrichter, Alpert,
Rynd, Hopkins, Price, Lowe, Dize, Matthews (R. M.), Burkheimer, Mackie, Dorman,
Menes, Mothershead, Banning, Goodman, King, Santangelo, Weile, Bagley, McDonough,
Rummage, Hickman (C. M.), Houck, Remsberg, Virts, Greer, Hess, Scarff, Walters,
Adams (F. B.), Antonelli, Cassady, Holub, McCarty, Orlinsky, Sarbanes, Hergenroeder,
Mooney, Abramson, Brailey, Dixon, Douglass, Lee, Cardin, Friedman, Resnick, Spector,
Waxter, Avara, Freeberger, Donaldson, Grumbacher, Wright, Clarke, Cronin, Lady,
Mclnerney, Scott, Whalen, Whitney, Bell, Docter, Zander, Aitken, Beall, Cook (N. S.),
Evans, Reed, Matthews (R. C), Yingling.                                                    Total—76

The Speaker announced the veto was sustained.

May 4, 1967.

Honorable Marvin Mandel
Speaker of the House of Delegates
State House
Annapolis, Maryland

Dear Mr. Speaker:

In accordance with Section 17 of Article II of the Maryland
Constitution, I have vetoed today House Bill 623 and am returning
it to you.

This bill would authorize the trustees of the State retirement
systems to make agreements with the State Roads Commission to
lend money for the advance acquisition of rights of way for improve-
ments of the roads system.

The Boards of Trustees of the retirement systems have unan-
imously and strongly urged me to veto this measure. They point out
that its implementation would create "many complicated and
insolvable problems"; that it entails an improper approach for the
investment of retirement funds; and that present investments of the
systems provide a greater return than that allowable under the bill.

The objectives of the bill are meritorious and reflect a condition
for which some relief should be provided—the need for funds for
advance right of way acquisitions on the basis of long-range needs
planning in a period of rising land costs.

Nevertheless, this bill at best would amount to nothing more than
a temporary and inadequate answer to a vital problem deserving of
more attention and a more complete solution. I hope that a reasonably
early proposal designed to provide a satisfactory and permanent