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reports, and if it wasn't for an enterprising reporter
of The Sunpapers, we would probably have no record; but
there is no reason why committees should not give reasons
to preserve the record for posterity. There is an equally
important and more contemporaneous reason. That is for
the education of the delegates. After all, we are only
members of one substantive committee, which will occupy
most of our time and attention, and when a proposal comes
to us from a committee, if all we had was the bare proposal,
how in heaven's name would we be enlightened as to what
it really meant and what the reason for it was?
On the other hand, we don't necessarily want
Ulysses or the Holy Bible to accompany every committee
report, and upon the suggestion of Senator James, we have
put in the word, concise, which fortunately, while the
word is concise, it means concise, it is capable of being
given a broad and flexible interpretation. In any event,
I always thought that the rules as originally drafted Im-
plied that all the substantive committee reports would be
written; and I think a number of the members of the Com-
mittee are of the same view. When we discovered that |
