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because if he had indicated to his committee and to the
membership that a bill would be broucrhtup at a certain
hour or would not be broucrht uo and that word were broken,
then certainly there would be due eorts made to remedy
the situation.
Just for the record, I should like to say that
in addition to Florida, Idaho, Montana, New Jersey and New
Mexico, following the practice in the Constitution, which
the majority urges, that there be in addition to that, 11
states which use the majority vote of those present and
voting, a quorum being present; those states are not in-
significant. They do so by rule. They are Connecticut,
Massachusetts, Mississippi, North Carolina, Rhode Island,
, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, West Virginia and Wisconsin
I submit to vou that what we are sucrestincT here
may be a departure from the Maryland practice, hul-- it is
bv no means a practice which differs significantly rom
many of the other States of the Union, and the Conqress
of the United States itself. Our Federal Government finds
the majority proposal quite acceptable and operates quite
' successfully under it, so with that I should like to yield
four minutes to Delegate Gleason, if I may, Mr. Chairman.