10 JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS [June 13

EXECUTIVE'S MESSAGE

TO
THE MARYLAND GENERAL ASSEMBLY

by

GOVERNOR THEODORE R. MCKELDIN
Special Session, June 13, 1958

Mr. President

Mr. Speaker

Ladies and Gentlemen of the Assembly:

You are here for specified purposes.

The law does not limit you to consideration of those measures which
necessitated this convening or made it desirable.

I hope that your consciences will.

Officers of both your Houses and those others of you with whom I
have had the opportunity to discuss the business-at-hand are in general
agreement that only necessary legislation, previously announced and
publicized, should have the benefit of your thought, your discussions and
your actions on this occasion.

Please remember that the 90-day, Regular Session of 1959 is little
more than half a year away.

Most of us have been long enough together in this Government to
have developed a mutuality of frankness.

It is in frankness, then, that I recognize the temptation inherent in a
gathering such as this, in a time such as this, for the making of a little
political hay.

I urge that you put the temptation behind you and turn promptly to
the serious task of the day.

From the experience of many years, I can assure you now that the
many Marylanders who will appreciate the quick, orderly and effective
dispatch of legislative business will far outnumber the few who might note
with favor the use in these chambers of words of vindictiveness or phrases
of self-aggrandizement.

You are here primarily to authorize the Department of Employment
Security to enter into agreement with the Federal Government for extend-
ing by 50 per cent the period over which unemployment compensation is
to be paid to insured beneficiaries.

I am confident that the need for and the principle involved in this law
are widely accepted. I am sure your committees can explain the details