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we gave the opportunity to any delegate who had comments

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or criticisms or suggestions to appear before the

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committee to give us those suggestions, and two of the

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delegates took the opportunity to do so.

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I might say that by way of background, that

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other Constitutional Conventions have wrestled with

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the problem of how to regulate, if you want to use the

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word loosely but accurately, lobbyists. Different

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conventions selected different methods. In New York, for

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example, the New York Legislature, and the Convention

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is now going on, enacted a statute, which dealt with

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lobbying before the Convention, but subject to the

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caveat of the Convention could supersede the Convention

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by its own rules. As I understand, the New York Convention

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elected to adopt in effect the New York Statute. The

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Michigan Convention dealt with it by rule and regulation.

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Other Conventions had the same problem. In New York,

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however, the statute prescribed sanctions; not only

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sanctions of the New York Criminal Law, but vested the

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contempt power.

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Now the Enabling Act under which we operate