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My good friend, the Chairman of the Committee,
mentions one bill. It so happens I happened to be up in
the country over the weekend and I have, I suppose, a fairly
decent house, but I had a squirrel in it, but am I going to
burn my house down to get the squirrel out? We have a good
procedure under the present Constitution and it has been
workina for the last hundred years, and it is listed in
the Constitution, where a naiority o the elected members
of the body shall be the necessary constitutional naioritv.
We in the Convention are operating under a 72
vote majority of the body.
We also passed in the executive branch just
yesterday, on the return of vetoed bills from the Gover-
nor's office; the bill was passed by the affirmative vote
of three-fifths of all the members of each house.
THE CHAIRMAN: You have one-half minute. Dele-
gate Della.
DELEGATE DELLA: I think we have to be consistent.
If we are froinq to permit three-fifths vote on vetoed
bills of all the members then I think it ought to be three-
fifths vote of all the members o both bodies to nass a