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1	JUDGE CARTF.R: I think you have got a situation
2	in the State that may be somewhat unusual, and that is,
3	you have got 70 per cent of the voting strength of the
4	State in Baltimore City and the County.
5	MR. MARTINEAU: I don't think we are too un-
6	usual in that.
7	JUDGE CLAPP: May I say for whatever it is
8	worth that the suggestion of Judge Oppenheimer is very
9	appealing to me. If there is an unusual beginning, such
10	as we now have in the Court of Appeals, but with the
11	power of the Legislature to change it, I think there is a
12	vast difference between starting out with districts and
13	starting out with an unlimited power to impose statewide
14	elections. I think there is a great deal of difference
15	between getting the Legislature to change from districting
16	statewide elections than there would be getting an open
17	power to adopt whatever it sees fit in the first instance.
18	To adopt this suggestion is very appealing to me.
19	THE CHAIRMAN: It could be districting and
20	still statewide elections.
21	JUDGE CLAPP: That is possible.