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Now, let me say this, we are in our closing hours

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of this Convention. Think back in your minds of the things

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that you would like to have seen in this Constitution which

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have been knocked out by those people who say it is not

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proper for a Constitution to contain them. Think back.

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How many things have you lost on that argument? And I urge

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you, where you have lost the things that you have wanted on

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that argument, the argument ought to be applied straight

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across the board, and nonconstitutional things, things not

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of constitutional stature, should be omitted from this

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document. That is the sole test.

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If you were in the Legislature, yes, I would be

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here urging you to vote against lotteries. This is not a

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legislature. It is a Constitutional Convention. It has no

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business in the Constitution.

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Cleason.

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DELEGATE GLEASON: Mr. Chairman and fellow

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delegates, I am frankly amazed that there are 44 people in

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this assemblage who would take what I consider a very likely

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possibility of throwing away four months of work to drop

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out of the Constitution at this time something that has been