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it for a while, with this explanation. The Enabling Act,

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which deals with the matter of pay and allowances of

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delegates has some very explicit but unclear language.

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I think we will have to have an opinion of the Attorney

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General in order to know just how far the Convention can

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go, and if you wouldn't mind withholding your motion, I

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would give you an opportunity to make it at another day.

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DELEGATE DELIA: As of today?

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THE PRESIDENT: Effective as of today.

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DELEGATE DELLA: Probably he could make the

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motion then.

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THE PRESIDENT: I, perhaps, should say a word

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about this. I sincerely trust that the answer to this

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question is going to be that the President has no dis-

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cretion to exercise in excusing absences in that conven-

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tion has little or no discretion. I say that because the

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requests already received for absences for one reason or

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another point out to me at least that it is almost impos-

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sible to draw a line as to what would be a justifiable

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excuse and what would not; but because of the explicit

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language of the Enabling Act, I think we ought to have