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special order of the day on a subsequent day after the
Minority Report had been distributed to the Convention.
I don't think the members of this Convention, up
learning that there was a Minority Report in process,
dealing with the subject that they were scheduled to take
up the next day, would hesitate in granting any reasonable
delay; so the Minority could have its report printed.
DELEGATE JOHNSON: Mr. Chairman, under the
existing rules, there is no cutoff date whatsoever for
the receipt of the Minority Report; in your Report you
speak of delay; so inasmuch as the rules require the re-
ceipt of a Minority Report, can't the Minority Report
follow the Report any time and would have to be received?
DELEGATE SCANLAN. No. You suggest that
perhaps these rules protect the Minority too much, as inter-
preted in one way. No. I think the answer would be
that while there is nothing in the rules that now imposes
a cutoff date on the submission of a Minority Report,
sensible and prudent protection of Minority rights who
move the Minority to try to get this Report out as soon as
possible, because there would be the contingency that if |
