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DELEGATE PENNIMAN: Mr. Chairman, I have not
intended as Chairman of the Committee on Style to speak on
any issue before this Convention. I rise to speak on this
issue because I am opposed to the compromise which has been
made, not for the reasons that Delegate Wiedemeyer has
stated, but because it seems to me there has been an agree-
ment made with the assumption that something politically will
grow out of this decision, and I do not believe that anything
will grow out of this decision. I believe that those who
have compromised, who wanted an elective Comptroller in most
instances will continue, many of them, I should say, I will
modify it, many of them will continue to oppose the entire
Constitution, regardless of how many times and how far we
decide to compromise.
I speak here then simply to explain my vote. It
is that I had opposed an elected Comptroller. I think we
have gained nothing from it, either in terms of the majesty
of this document or in terms of the politics of getting it
approved.
I am sorry to say that what Delegate Scanlan said
earlier today, that the level of this debate has been loweroi,