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would pass reasonable regulations and allowing right of
removal in that case only for good cause shown.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Willoner, do you accept
the substitution or do you wish to speak against it?
DELEGATE WILLONER; Mr. Chairman, this is the
position of the majority of the Members of our Committee
and it is not to change the present practice in that the
present practice goes toward the local prejudice in the
jury, not in the Judge.
While I have great sympathy for Delegate
Macdonald's amendment, I feel in speaking for the majority
that the intent of this is to preserve the present practice
except where it is abused and to permit regulation of it
by assigning costs in those cases where costs are incurred
because of removal or secondly where the Court could make
an election like in a jury trial requiring an election a
reasonable time before trial.
I don't know what Judge Henderson was getting
" " he sa?.d there were other things that the Court
couldn't do. The purpose of this, this is a middle ground,
it preserves the right of removal but leaves it subject to