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DELEGATE JAMES: Now, directing
your attention to the requirement, you do
not have any real idea what it would cost.
They are very expensive.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: As expen-
sive as the transcription of the debates at
this Convention.
DELEGATE JAMES: You do not have
any idea how many people are looking at
the transcripts of this Convention, do you?
(Laughter.)
Well, do not answer that. Do not answer
that.
"All final committee votes on all bills in
both houses shall be entered by individual
recorded vote in the daily journal of the
appropriate house."
Do you want the names of every com-
mittee vote as it comes out of the com-
mittee?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: That is
correct, Senator.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate James.
DELEGATE JAMES: Directing your
attention to section 3.16, suppose you had
a very acute emergency which would re-
quire the legislature to act immediately,
an invasion of the country, an earthquake,
some really distinct emergency. Do you
want the legislature to dawdle for five days
until it can act?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: No, Sen-
ator, we do not want the legislature to
dawdle in case of an emergency, and we
have provided upon deferment of three-
fifths members present and voting that
this requirement can be suspended.
DELEGATE JAMES: That is the sec-
ond half. In the House of Delegates is
there any way that the assembly can act
anyway, without waiting for five days?
We had the intention for it to apply to
both houses, and we would ask the Com-
mittee on Style and Drafting to have it
cover both houses. It was intended that
both houses would suspend.
DELEGATE JAMES: All right.
I would have no objection if it is both
houses.
THE CHAIRMAN: You are saying the
clause beginning on line 38 and continuing
on line 40, "except upon the affirmative
vote of three-fifths of all the members vot-
ing and present, a quorum being present,"
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is intended to apply to both previous
clauses of that sentence, namely to passage
by the legislature in both houses? Is that
correct?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: That is
correct.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Storm.
DELEGATE STORM: As you know, I
have been troubled about the single member
district which as applied to our county
carved us up in a way that is rather gaul-
ing to us, and I was interested in the re-
marks of the gentleman from the fifth dis-
trict, Baltimore City correct me if I am
wrong — I am laying a foundation for my
query — was the reason for the single mem-
ber district to insure that there would al-
ways be some minority members in the
House? Was this correct?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: I believe
he stated that he thought one of the pur-
poses of the single member district was to
assure the minority a more adequate op-
portunity for representation. I think I
would concur in that.
DELEGATE STORM: Then this was
somewhat a political decision?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: In the
finest sense of the word.
DELEGATE STORM: Absolutely, Mr.
Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Positively.
(Laughter.)
DELEGATE STORM: That was the re-
sponse I wanted from you.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: You got it.
DELEGATE STORM: One further
question along this line.
As I understand it, you planned on the
central committee to make decisions filling
the vacancies?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Yes.
DELEGATE STORM: As I understand,
we will probably have sometimes two coun-
ties in one district. I think both of the
Central Committees will have to get to-
gether.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: We went
into that at some length, and we under-
stand that there are overlapping State
Central Committee statutes. I looked at
method for saying the general vacancies
shall be filled by the General Assembly,
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