The first item of business is reports of
standing committees. There is, I believe, a
report, Fourth Report of the Committee on
Rules. Mr. Clerk? The Fourth Report of
the Committee on Rules, Credentials, and
Convention Budget should be on your desk.
Anyone who does not have a copy? The
Clerk will read the report.
READING CLERK: The Fourth Report
of the Committee on Rules, Credentials, and
Convention Budget. The Committee on
Rules, Credentials and Convention Budget
has considered the problem of how to fill
vacancies in convention due to the death or
resignation of delegates. The Committee
recommends that the following rule be
adopted:
THE PRESIDENT: The report will be
received and is referred to the Committee
on Calendar and Agenda.
Delegate Scanlan.
DELEGATE SCANLAN: Mr. President,
I believe the Committee on Rules also has
a Fifth Report that I had hoped would be
distributed to the delegates. It is our report
on Delegate Robey's resolution with respect
to the creation of a Committee on Public
Information.
THE PRESIDENT: Just a second and
see if we can find it. Do you have such a
report, Mr. Clerk?
I am sorry. The report does not seem to
have been reproduced and it was not re-
ceived by the Clerk. It will be submitted on
Monday.
DELEGATE SCANLAN: On that score,
Mr. President, Delegate Robey's resolution
regarding the creation of a Committee on
Public Information was before the Conven-
tion, I believe, last Wednesday, and Dele-
gate Robey impresses me with the urgency
of the consideration of his resolution. The
committee has recommended a favorable re-
port. with some modifications with respect
to Delegate Robey's resolution. Under the
rules, I think it would be in order at any
time and we would like to consider it Mon-
day, since two session days have passed and
the Committee on Rules has considered it.
On the other hand, I would not want the
delegates to vote upon the issue without the
benefit of the committee's report and some
time to study it. I wonder if the Chief
Clerk's office could make a special effort,
even though it is a Friday afternoon, to
have that distributed to delegates before
we leave today.
THE PRESIDENT: The report, I under-
stand, is in the duplicating office. We will |
make the effort to distribute it to the dele-
gates. It must be remembered, however, that
this is very difficult on a Friday afternoon,
because many of the delegates leave. We
will take the matter up on Monday and de-
cide at that time what to do about it.
DELEGATE SCANLAN: Thank you,
Mr. President.
THE PRESIDENT: The next item on
the calendar is consideration df the Second
Report of the Committee on Rules, Creden-
tials and Convention Budget. This is a re-
port which has to do with the adoption of
a regulation of lobbyists. The report was
received on September 19. You have it on
your desk or in your books.
This is the Second Report of the Com-
mittee on Rules, Credentials, and Conven-
tion Budget, and with it you should have a
commentary on that second report. The
Chair recognizes Delegate Scanlan, Chair-
man of the Committee. I suggest, Delegate
Scanlan, that you come to the reading
clerk's desk to explain the report.
DELEGATE SCANLAN: Mr. President,
fellow delegates, I have the honor to present
to the Convention the Second Report of the
Committee on Rules, Credentials, and Con-
vention Budget, in which we recommend
favorably the adoption of a proposed regu-
lation with respect to people who come be-
fore the Convention to represent the views
of others. I might say that this proposed
regulation has been considered in some de-
tail by our committee at our first meeting
on September 6, prior to the actual conven-
ing of the Convention. A subcommittee was
appointed consisting of the Chairman, and
Delegates Clinton Bamberger, Maxwell
Armor, and Raymond Boileau. Shortly
thereafter the subcommittee read a report
which was considered further by the full
committee on at least three separate occa-
sions. As late as yesterday we gave the
opportunity to any delegate who had com-
ments or criticisms or suggestions to appear
before the committee to give us those sug-
gestions, and two of the delegates took the
opportunity to do so.
I might say that by way of background,
that other Constitutional Conventions have
wrestled with the problem of how to regu-
late, if you want to use the word loosely
but accurately, lobbyists. Different conven-
tions selected different methods. In New
York, for example, the New York Legis-
lature, and the Convention is now going on,
enacted a statute, which dealt with lobbying
before the Convention, but subject to the
caveat that the Convention could supersede
the Convention by its own rules. As I un- |
