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retention and use of these transcripts. They will, of
course, be very interesting and valuable to you in the
future as a historical document, and I am sure you will
want to preserve them. More immediately, they will be
very valuable to you hereafter as being a record of what
is actually said in debate. The purpose of having the
transcripts reproduced, or at least one of the purposes,
is that so when committees meet on a morning following
a session in which a proposal or a question may be debated,
there will be no uncertainty as to what action was taken
by the Convention or by the Committee of the Whole, or as
to what points were made in the debate. You will have
the stenographic transcript in front of you. This should
expedite the work of the committees.
I have no doubt that there will be a very con-
siderable demand for these transcripts. To a reasonable
extent we are planning to have copies available for
public use. We cannot possibly reproduce enough copies
so that any member of the public may get one. They will
be made available in libraries and other places. We are
making them available to the press. |
