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Cast your votes.
Has every delegate voted? Does any dele-
gate desire to change his vote?
(There was no response.)
The Clerk will record the vote.
THE CHAIRMAN: There being 68
votes in the affirmative and 68 in the nega-
tive the motion is lost. Committee Recom-
mendation No. 1 is rejected.
For what purpose does Delegate Galla-
gher rise?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Is it now
in order to move a reconsideration of the
vote by which the amendment prevailed?
THE CHAIRMAN: The question that
the Chair is uncertain of is not whether
you can move a reconsideration. I think
you can.
The question is whether you must first
move a reconsideration of the vote just
taken, the 68 to 68 vote; and I would like
to have a moment or two to consider.
The Chair is ready to announce its rul-
ing. A motion to reconsider would be in
order, provided the motion couples in one
motion a reconsideration of the vote by
which the Committee Recommendation just
failed, and reconsideration of the vote by
which that Recommendation was amended.
They would be put as one vote, but the two
would have to be combined.
Do you so move?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: I so move.
THE CHAIRMAN: Is there a second to
the motion?
(Whereupon, the motion was duly sec-
onded.)
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Dukes.
DELEGATE DUKES: What is the ef-
fect of the new vote?
THE CHAIRMAN: If the vote is in fa-
vor of the reconsideration, we go back to
the amendment and reconsider that as the
first matter, whether the amendment should
be made, and then, depending upon what
action was taken on that amendment, we
would proceed further.
Does that answer your inquiry?
DELEGATE DUKES: Yes.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Wheatley.
DELEGATE WHEATLEY: In the event
this motion to reconsider is defeated, am I
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correct in assuming that there would be
under the present Committee Report no
recommendation in this area?
THE CHAIRMAN: That is correct.
DELEGATE DUKES: And if the mo-
tion to reconsider passes we would be open
to reconsider the earlier votes?
THE CHAIRMAN: That is right. But
the first vote to be reconsidered would be
the adoption of the amendment.
DELEGATE DUKES: Thank you.
THE CHAIRMAN: Is there any discus-
sion of the motion to reconsider? Are you
ready for the question?
Delegate Burgess.
DELEGATE BURGESS: May we have
a quorum call at this time, sir?
THE CHAIRMAN: The Clerk will ring
the quorum bell.
DELEGATE JAMES: Mr. Chairman.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate James.
DELEGATE JAMES: I do not have the
slightest idea what a vote Yes or a vote No
will mean in this situation. Could you ex-
plain it in simple terms from the stand-
point of those who would like to have a
Board of Public Works in the Constitution
and those who are against it. Then we will
be in a position to dispose of it.
THE CHAIRMAN: The Chair will en-
deavor to explain the situation as he under-
stands it.
A vote Aye is a vote in favor of recon-
sidering the tie vote by which the motion
to approve the Recommendation failed, and
to reconsider the vote by which the Rec-
ommendation was amended to strike the
word "not".
If that motion prevails, namely, if a ma-
jority vote in favor of the motion to recon-
sider, we will be precisely where we were
before any of the votes were taken. We
will then have before us the Committee
Recommendation.
The question then before you would be
the amendment. The Chair will put to you
the question of whether the amendment
should be made.
The procedure thereafter would be ex-
actly the same as it has been the past ten
minutes or so.
For what purpose does Delegate White
rise?
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