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take further action under the rules ana to afford him this

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courtesy.

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I think at this point in time it might be well

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to just review briefly the protections the delegate has

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under the rules. A delegate has the rignt to submit a

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proposal. Up to October 27, he has a rignt to have a

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hearing on it if he wants it, However, there is nothing

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in the rules that gives him the rignt to have a

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written rejection of his proposal or indeed to have the

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committee take any particular action on it.

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However, if a committee attempts to bottle up

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a proposal, a delegate has the right under Rule 50 on

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one day's notice and if he can convince a majority of his

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colleagues to agree with him, to flush the proposal out.

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Finally he has the rigiit, if his proposal is

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still in committee when the committee's report comes out,

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he has the rigiit to have an amendment prepared, have "t

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distributed to the delegates, and have it debated up an

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down on the floor in the Committee of the Whole.

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We think that the rignts provided by the rules

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are about as far as the Convention should be asked to go