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rule is now drafted, when the previous question is moved,
it takes down not only the pending question with respect
to which the previous question has been moved, but it
would take down all amendments on the Clerk's desk at that
time. I think the purpose of the language, and I think
here we drew from the Michigan Constitutional Convention,
which in turn, I believe, drew from a peculiar provision
of the Michigan Legislature, was to eliminate the pos-
sibility of using a series of frivolous amendments to
hold up debate. On the other hand, as Delegate Chabot
pointed out, and the Committee unanimously agrees, if the
previous question takes down everything, it means you
wouldn't even have an opportunity to debate a very good
amendment that you wanted to debate. There are other
ways to avoid frivolous amendments. They can always be
moved to be tabled. If that motion is not debatable on
ballot, the Committee was of the view that the change sug-
gested is one that should be adopted by the Convention.
That ends the specific recommendations that we
offer today as far as the report, but I would just like
in terms of amendments to the rules, I would just like to |
