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Cast your votes.
Has every delegate voted? Does any delegate
desire to change his vote?
The Clerk will record the vote. (Applause.)
THE CHAIRMAN: The vote in the affirmative
being 68, the vote in the negative being 68, the motion
fails.
For what purpose does Delegate Gallagher rise?
DELEGATE GALLAGHF.R: Is it now in order to move
a reconsideration of the vote by which the amendment pre-
vailed?
THE CHAIRMAN: The question that the Chair is
uncertain of is not whether you can move a reconsideration.
\ I think you can.
The question is whether you must first move a
reconsideration of the vote just taken, the 68 to 68 vote;
and I would like to have a moment or two to consider.
The Chair is ready to announce its ruling.
A motion to reconsider would be in order, provided the
motion couples in one motion a reconsideration of the
vote by which the committee recommendation just failed
and reconsideration of the vote by which that recommendation