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Section 3.17 about whether it will keep a transcript and
whether it will do all these things. Is that needless too?
DELEGATE SCANLAN: I will contest that perhaps
on this point I am open to the charge of advising you here
on this instance to do as I say and not as I did in
supporting my chairman in the debate on Senator James
amendments. I do think there is a distinction. The
section, was it 3.17, that dealth with the legislative
procedure was in a sense laying restrictions on the legis-
lative activity in the public interest. It could be fairly
argued that the restrictions layed upon them were restrictions
that shouldn't rise to the level of Constitutional amend-
ments. I feel otherwise. There you were laying restrictions
on the exercise of legislative procedure as opposed to
legislative power in the public interest. Here you are
telling the legislature to act in a situation where there
is no power on earth accept the power of the people to
require them to act, when they have the power already to
act. As a matter of fact, it is really quite unfair, it
is a delusion to put this in the Constitution and say prest'3
we will have an effective conflict of interest legislative.