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the Committee takes final action is entitled to have it.

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As I understand it, the committees uniformly have been

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attempting to provide this hearing, but the substantive

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committees are now reaching the stage whore they are

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preparing or will soon be preparing and filing witn the

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Committee of the Whole tiieir very important reports on the

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various substantive articles of the oposcd new

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Constitution. If they have the obligation to continue

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to go back and give hearings as each proposal comes in,

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this very important work will be seriously interferred

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with.

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Nevertheless we did discuss in the committee

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the possibility of a cut-off date for all delegate proposal

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somewhat along the line of the practice that prevails in

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the General Assembly. It was the feeling of the Committee

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that at this point in time it should not be done.

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In the first place, through the distribution

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of delegate proposals a delegate can be sure that the

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entire Convention, that all delegates know about his idea,

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that it has been brought to their attention, We think at

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this point in time it would be unfair to deny the