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time or the matter, but I suggest that these several hours
of debate have resulted only because amendment 9 was
offered even though we had some perfectly good language
reported by the Committee. I suggest we support the
Committee and vote down the amendment.
DELEGATE CLARK: Delegate Dukes, do you wish
the floor?
DELEGATE DUKES: Just a moment, but I must tell
you this. I decided before I came down that I thought I
would stay in one area in which a contribution could be
made. I filed a 35-page memoranda in which I traced the
common law and took four states that abolished it and I
think they had the information. I suggest to you again
watch who you heard from.
I suggested earlier that it would be well to
observe those who would speak for and against the amendment;
before us first you heard from big city lawyer Scanlan
from Washington, D. C., it is very rare that I have
observed Delegate Scanlan speaking even once on a subject
about which he knows little.
Today you have been treated to an even more