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we have to assume, no matter what the rules you make or no
matter what cutoff day you supply, if the rules are not
fairly administered first by the presiding officer, and
then secondly by a majority of the Convention, the minority
rights will be ignored; but on the other hand, if the
rule is certain, flexible as we believe they are now, and
we have some trust that a majority will be fair when the
occabion dictates, I think the present rules stand up.
DELEATE JOHNSON: Mr. Chairman, isn't it also
possible that under the existing rule, the Convention
could be required to consider a Majority Report and inas-
much as the minority is entitled to have its report re-
ceived, that this Convention would subsequently be re-
quired to then consider the Minority Report after only
considering the Majority Report?
DELEGATE SCANLAN: No, As I said before, if
we reach that point where a Majority Report was on the gen-
eral orders of the day, and the Minority, for one good
reason or another had not been able to finish the prepara-
tion and printing of its report, certainly a motion would
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