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move its adoption, Mr. President.

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THE PRESIDENT: Is there any further discussion?

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DELEGATE BURDETTE: Mr. President?

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Burdette.

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DELEGATE BURDETTE: Mr. President, I should like

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to ask if this rule, as proposed by the Chairman of the

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Committee on Rules, does in effect permit the President

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to create such other officers as may be necessary from

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time to time; and if that interpretation can be placed

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upon it, I should think that the rule should be amended

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to leave the power to create the officer within the Con-

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vention. A second question which I should like to ask

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is whether or not this rule as worded --my next question

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is to ask whether or not in the opinion of the Chairman

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of the Committee and of the Committee, this rule as here

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worded would permit the President to fill vacancies in

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such other offices as the vice-presidency should there

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become vacancies?

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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Scanlan?

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DELEGATE SCANLAN: My answer to the first question

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is that there is no intention here to give the President