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is excused from attendance at one of the sessions.
We agree that a Convention is different than the General
Assembly because this is once in a hundred years.
We have very important business and a very limited time
to do it. Fortunately, there are no slackers here.
I am confident for one the job will be
done and all will do their fair share but we have
elected fairly strict standards.
The question arose as to whether or not a
man, or several of the delegates were sent by their
chairman as a sub-committee to say, to go to New York
to get information relative to the work of their sub-
committee, would they be entitled to the $25 a day.
Certainly they would, in your committee's views and
if the expenditure was greater than $25, I think they
would be entitled to the difference to supplement the
difference between the $25 to which they are entitled,
and the actual amount of expenses that they may have
incurred on the business of the Convention. So in the
end, we have a strict standard. We hope it will be
applied in a manner that will be satisfactory, just |
