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government over the District of Columbia. To answer your

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parliamentary inquiry, Delegate Burdette, I make this

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suggestion: I think this is a matter that the Chair would

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request the staff advisor to the committee to have

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researched this evening. The Committee on Style has the

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privileged status of being able to move for reconsideration

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at any time, and would be afforded this opportunity so that

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the question could be raised again, but I think we ought

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to have more definite answers before it is decided.

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DELEGATE BURDETTE: I might say, Ishould if there is

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any parliamentary way to do it, and if it should seem

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under any circumstances necessary to move it, if it be

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possible to move it, I am trying to move it -- some such

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language: "but this section shall not be construed to apply

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to the territory now in the District of Columbia."

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THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think this is a matter

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that can be left to the Committee on Style. It is the intent

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of the Convention, it is abundantly clear that it is not intended

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by section 2.04 to enfranchise residents of the District

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of Columbia.

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DELEGATE HARDWICKE: I would like to point out