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DELEGATE MORGAN: I yield.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate White.
DELEGATE WHITE: Delegate Morgan,
I supported your point of view last time.
I wonder what you are going to do now.
(Laughter.)
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: I am going to
vote for the motion for reconsideration be-
cause I would like to get this question
settled one way or the other.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate White.
DELEGATE WHITE: Thank you very
much. Now I know what to do.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Della.
DELEGATE DELLA: Mr. Chairman, I
have a parliamentary inquiry.
THE CHAIRMAN: State the inquiry.
DELEGATE DELLA: When is it proper
to ask for verification of the last roll call?
THE CHAIRMAN: I am not sure the
Chair understands what you mean by "veri-
fication." You mean a copy of the roll call?
DELEGATE DELLA: No; a new roll
call.
THE CHAIRMAN: A what?
DELEGATE DELLA: A new roll call
of the membership.
THE CHAIRMAN: A quorum call? I am
not sure I understand your inquiry.
DELEGATE DELLA: Under the Jeffer-
sonian Rules and under Robert's Rules of
Order on parliamentary procedure, it is al-
ways in order to ask for verification of the
last roll call. I am wondering about the
Eney Rules.
THE CHAIRMAN: The Chair does not
believe that such a request is in order, in
view of the fact that the vote was taken
on the roll call on a verification of the
vote. A delegate could not change his vote.
It could not change the result.
The result was indicated on the board,
and every delegate either has or will have
a copy; and there would, therefore, be no
purpose served in verification. The situa-
tion would be different if you took a vote
orally.
DELEGATE DELLA: Will you give me
where that rule is?
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THE CHAIRMAN: If you mean will I
quote you the rule, I will ask the parlia-
mentarian if he can find it while we pro-
ceed to a discussion of the motion to re-
consider.
Delegate Mason.
DELEGATE MASON: Mr. Chairman, I
would like to direct a question to Delegate
Dorsey.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Dorsey, do
you yield for a question?
DELEGATE DORSEY: Yes.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Mason.
DELEGATE MASON: Delegate Dorsey,
you heard the question directed to Delegate
Morgan by Delegate White, and Delegate
Morgan answered that if he were voting
for him, he would vote for reconsideration.
Now, I ask you what would you instruct
the people who were voting for your posi-
tion? Would you tell them to vote against
reconsideration?
DELEGATE DORSEY: I am so con-
fused by the ruling of the Chair — I have
served in this House as a member of the
legislature for eight years, four years
across the hall in the Senate, and I have
never in my lifetime heard such a ruling
as the Chair just made.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Mason, do
you have any further inquiry?
(Laughter.)
Delegate Dorsey.
DELEGATE DORSEY: I have never
heard of a legislative body — and certainly
this is one, because we are not only legis-
lating for today, but we are legislating
for generations — where a tie vote could not
be reconsidered.
THE CHAIRMAN: That is what is
pending.
DELEGATE DORSEY: Well, I ask
that a verification be taken of it first, at
which time any member is privileged to
change his vote. I refer you to Robert's
Rules of Order.
THE CHAIRMAN: Do you have a para-
graph that you can refer us to, and maybe
save us time?
DELEGATE DORSEY: I do not even
have the book here.
(Laughter.)
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