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Delegate Gallaher?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Chairman and Ladies and
Gentlemen, for the past 48 hours we have been up the hill
and we have been down the hill. We went up again; we came
down again. And I think that it is about time we make a
decision and when we make this decision, we make it in lighl
of the knowledge that we have and with a fervent desire to
see to it that the time and effort that we have expended
here results in the passage of a Constitution. It may well
be that nobody in this State gets a document that he would
have had, had he written it himself, and that would include;
of course, the Governor of the State. We regret that not
everyone gets entirely what he wants, but when I look at thjs
Amendment, and I see 19 of the 20 Members of a Committee
which was irrevocably and sternly divided, which indeed was
at the blood-letting stage, which was ready to go out and
pitch camps and fight a civil war, a hundred years" war, I
see these men come together and I think this means something.
I see a former Comptroller of Maryland, who later became
Governor. I see the President of the Senate. I see a