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Henderson.

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DELEGATE HENDERSON: Mr. Chairman and fellow

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members, since I have been quoted or referred to by Mr.

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Willoner, I feel that I must first try to make my position

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perfectly clear.

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In 1947 I became interested in this subject. At

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that time I was serving on the Court of Appeals and I

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delivered a paper on the subject before a law club and became

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interested in the matter. Chief Judge 0. L. Marbury and

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Judge Markle who were my colleagues on the court at that

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time urged me and I was asked by the executive committee to

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make a speech before the Bar Association at Atlantic City

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which I did, and that is the paper to which he referred

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which was published in 1947.

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Since this had been the subject of wide publicity

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before, and the efforts to change it which had been proposed

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by such eminent authorities as Judge Markle, Chief Judge

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Dennis and Judge Chestnut from the federal bench, all un-

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availing, my approach was not to attack or make a frontal

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attack on the amendment , which I would have preferred to do,

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but accepting the amendment to point out the many features