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had quthority to call upon various committee chairmen
to give a little status report whenever that was appro-
priate, whether we needed a rule for that. The Committee
was of the opinion that no such rule was necessary.
So at the end, I return to the beginning, which
was our proposed amendment to Rule 5. You will recall what?
Let me put it this way: The original proposal was that both
the Chairman and the Vice-chairman of the Committees of this
Convention would be selected by the President, but in the
meeting of the Temporary Rules Committee a few days
before our organizing session In July, on motion, I be-
lieve of Delegate Gallagher, it was approved, recommended
and approved that vice-chairmen be elected. During the
debate on the adoption of the rules in our organizing ses-
sion in July, I believe Delegate Grumbacher offered an
amendment which would have made the vice-chairmen sub-
ject to the same procedure as the chairman. Both would
be appointed. That motion was defeated. In the interval
Senator Malkus sponsored an amendment which would go
back to the original amendment, the original proposal
and have vice-chairmen appointed by the President. There |
