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became necessary for us to get the constitutional majority.
That majority was one short of that required, and despite
the best interests and efforts of the State Police and all
the militia of Maryland to locate the missing delegate who
was supposed to be planting tomato croos at a late hour
after the sun had gone down on his farm, and was in fact
hideen away quietly in his house, a very significant bill
failed of passage as a result of a stay-at-home vote, which
was in effect, of course, a no vote. I submit to you the
State of Maryland, the people of Maryland would have been
far better off had we not had a constitutional majority
required, because the reapportionment was a bloody battle
to say the least; some of the scars which the members of
this Convention bear will indicate this. I would say
simply this: That if we have faith in a General Assembly,
we will have faith in a quorum o the General assembly.
If we are qoinq to have controversial bills, neonie are
qoinq to turn out to vote for them. ("ortainlv everyone
knows when you have a routine matter and a non-routine
matter, I submit to you that the leadership or the chair-
man of any committee will only fail in this respect once,