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THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Mason.
DELEGATE MASON: As I understand
Delegate Dorsey's answer, I presume he
would suggest that those who are voting
for a Board of Public Works not vote for
reconsideration?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Dorsey.
DELEGATE DORSEY: No, sir, I would
not. I can simply say I am so confused
that I do not have any advice, Delegate
Mason, and I am confused by the ruling of
the Chair here.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Adkins.
DELEGATE ADKINS: I suggest the
confusion is not limited to Delegate Dor-
sey's confusion.
I would like to make a parliamentary in-
quiry and then follow it with a motion.
Am I correct in assuming if the Com-
mittee rises for dinner recess that the pend-
ing motion to reconsider will still be the
pending order of business before the house?
THE CHAIRMAN: It will be, under the
practices we have been following.
DELEGATE ADKINS: Am I in order
to make a motion to rise until such time as
the Committee on Calendar and Agenda so
order?
THE CHAIRMAN: Is there a second to
the motion?
(Whereupon, the motion was duly sec-
onded.)
THE CHAIRMAN: What time do you
suggest is the hour to be included in the
pending motion?
DELEGATE POWERS: It is 6:10 P.M.,
7:30 P.M.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Adkins,
you have heard the suggestion of the Chair-
man of Calendar and Agenda. Would you
want to amend your motion to be specific?
DELEGATE ADKINS: Yes, sir.
This time I will suggest that the Com-
mittee rise until 6:30 P.M.
THE CHAIRMAN: You said 6:30 P.M.
DELEGATE ADKINS: I thought he
said 6:30 P.M.
THE CHAIRMAN: He said 7:30 P.M.
DELEGATE ADKINS: I agree with
him.
DELEGATE JAMES: I would like to
amend the motion and make it 8:00 P.M.
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(Whereupon, the motion was duly sec-
onded.)
THE CHAIRMAN: I think the Chair
has misled all of you, because the time as
of which this Committee reconvenes is up
to the Convention and not the Committee.
The only thing in order is a motion to
rise, and then time will be fixed by the
Convention.
Delegate Sherbow.
DELEGATE SHERBOW: I rise on a
matter of personal privilege. I note that
this motion is not debatable. I do not in-
tend to debate it, but I could not leave this
hall without saying this, that the statement
I made in the debate quoting Governor
Agnew is a literal quotation from the ad-
dress that he delivered before this Consti-
tutional Convention at the State House,
Annapolis, Maryland, September 29, 1967,
at 2:00 P.M.
As you will find on page 4 in the fourth
paragraph thereof, it is a literal quotation
and I know nothing of what took place be-
fore the Committee.
I do think the public record ought to
show that.
(Applause.)
THE CHAIRMAN: The question arises
on a motion that the Committee rise. A
vote Aye is a vote in favor of the motion.
A vote No is a vote against.
All those in favor, signify by saying
Aye; contrary, No. The Ayes have it. The
motion is carried.
(Whereupon, at 6:12 P.M., the Committee
of the Whole rose, and the Convention re-
convened.)
(The mace was replaced by the Sergeant-
at-Arms.)
PLENARY SESSION
NOVEMBER 27, 1967—6:12 P.M.
PRESIDENT H. VERNON ENEY,
PRESIDING
THE PRESIDENT: The Convention will
please come to order.
On behalf of the Committee of the Whole
the Chair reports that the Committee of
the Whole has had under consideration
Committee Recommendation GP-4, and that
it has approved the committee recommenda-
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