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we would like to have this category of persons reached,

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whatever they do, whenever they contact a delegate but

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here we floundered on the limitations of language.

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Could we draw a distinction between the person that

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talked to a delegate when he got home on the weekend or

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talked to a delegate on the steps of the State House, and

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there we gave up and secondly as Congressman Sickles

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pointed out, we might be catching the little person, the

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person who never had any great experience in lobbying

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before the Legislature, but who nevertheless wants to

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acquaint his delegates in his county with the views, say,

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of his local P.T.A. or what have you and if we reached

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out too broadly in that direction, we might be fashioning

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a net, as it was said, the law being the net that catches

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gnats and lets wasps free. We didn't want to penalize

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the average citizen, so we perhaps, I would say it

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was cowardly way out but it was the only intelligent

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way out in view of the situation. We elected to embrace

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those people within the requirement of registration,

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only when they appeared before the Convention, or a

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committee of the Convention, including the Committee of