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Convention and be considered at the same time as the
Majority Report is concerned.
I think their present position is that they
would like to see Rule 5I amended to provide & five session
day layover between the time the Report reaches the Com-
mittee of the whole and the time in which the Committee of
the Whole can take up that Report; and that this suggested
prohibition be applicable both to Majority and Minority
Reports.
In the opinion of your Committee, the proposal,
even as modified, should not be adopted by the Convention.
It is our view that the rules as they now stand,
certainly with any reasonable interpretation provide the
Majority full protection, and we say this for a number of
reasons. In the first place, by the time the Substantive
Committee reaches the point when they are voting on a
report, certainly the significant issues will have been
threshed out and debated and probably tentative votes of
the Committee will have already have been taken; so the
Minority, at that point, will know in advance even of the
final report of the Committee that they probably will have |
