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hall, and 43 across the way, and all of them are powerful
influences throughout the State. When you say that by
this Constitution to be adopted in May that you 142 members
of the legislature have got to go out and sell this Consti-
tution to these people, and they know that 62 of their
number are going out and they know not who is going, I will
venture to say that you will not get 50 percent of them
to go out for this Constitution.
The same way with the senators across the
hall. Both bodies will be in a hopeless state of confu-
sion, not knowing what the future holds for the State legis-
lature.
So I say you are playing with dynamite to cut
it down. If you want to defeat the Constitution, this is
one of the ways to do it.
THE CHAIRMAN: Is there any other delegate who
desires to speak in opposition to the amendment?
Delegate Hanson.
DELEGATE HANSON: Mr. Chairman, I think it
might be useful in this debate to inject a historical
note about the science by which the numbers 43 and 142 |
