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level.
I would return once again to the committee report
which does provide 105, the setting up of three committees
to split the work of the House of Delegates on a genuine
basis and to apportion among the house of Delegates at 105,
a genuine distribution of the workload, and thereby provide
a very effective lower chamber.
If I believed that within the formula that
the amendment suggests that 55-105 would be adopted, I would
certainly recommend it, but I feel and I think the other
members of this committee would certainly feel what is
going to happen is the 180 maximum is going to be used.
We are going to have a four-to-one ratio, 56
Senators, 144 delegates, 144 delegates is two more than we
ought to have under any circumstances, and is many more than
we ought to have at the moment.
Therefore, Mr. Chairman, I oppose the amendment
despite the obvious virtue that I have referred to, but human
nature being what it is, I feel we can expect the 36-144
figure and I feel that is something that this Convention
does not want to recommend. |
