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and not to pay the allowance for any day on which a delegate
was not present, either at the Convention session or at
a committee session, and further the record of attendance,
which your committee's secretary has been maintaining at
the request of the Secretary since Wednesday, September 13,
has been maintained and will continue to be maintained
for this purpose.
As to compensation, since we did not know
what action the Convention might take, the Comptroller was
instructed to pay all delegates their proportionate share
of the $2,000 compensation, without deduction, for any
absentees, with the idea that, depending upon what
action was finally taken by the Convention, an adjustment
could be made in the next pay.
Inasmuch as the Convention has approved the
rule, and has made it retroactive to the 12th of September,
which means that they have imposed on the President the duty
of excusing or not excusing absences under the circum-
stances stated, and inasmuch as there were motions
made on previous days by delegates that the Convention
excuse an absence of a delegate on that day, which motions |
