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THE PRESIDENT: The Chair regrets
if that was the case. I tried to state very
clearly that the vote was on the adoption
of Committee Recommendation No. 1.
I agree with you that the procedure on
the Committee Report differs from that of
the Committee Recommendation, and there
could have been this confusion. So that
there will be no confusion, the Chair has
indicated, and intends to take up each of
the different recommendations as indi-
cated on the Debate Schedule, disposing of
each of them in order.
Delegate Mason.
DELEGATE MASON: Mr. Chairman,
pursuing the question asked by Delegate
Rybczynski, I would like you to explain
why, after this Committee voted to strike
out the word "not", they had to vote on
the motion to amend, when we have not
been following that procedure in the other
amendments.
THE PRESIDENT: We have been fol-
lowing that procedure as to Committee
Reports, not as to Committee Recommenda-
tions. Committee Recommendations em-
brace in each instance one article or part
of an article of related sections. They are
quite different from these series of recom-
mendations which are, as the Chair in-
terpreted them, and as I believe the Com-
mittee on Calendar did in preparing the
Debate Schedule, separate recommenda-
tions, each of which can stand or fall alone.
The Chair understood this in the discussion
with the minority representatives at the
time when the Debate Schedule was pre-
pared, that each of these five recommenda-
tions would be submitted in order. The
Chair did not anticipate that there would
be any amendments offered to any of them,
had not been advised of any. Delegate
Mason.
DELEGATE MASON: I think it was
the opinion of the minority that when we
took a vote on the motion to strike, that
would be the end of it.
THE PRESIDENT: The Chair very
clearly stated in presenting that motion
that there would be a vote first on the
motion to amend, and if it carried that the
Chair would then submit Committee Rec-
ommendation No. 1. The Chair stated fur-
ther at that time that if the motion to
amend failed, the Recommendation would
be submitted to a vote in the form sub-
mitted by the Committee. There was no
objection at that time from any delegate to
that procedure.
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Delegate Johnson.
DELEGATE JOHNSON: Mr. President,
I believe that you commented upon this,
but I was confused at that time, and I am
confused now.
Would it not be in order, Mr. President,
to call for a reconsideration of the vote
of the Committee of the Whole on EB-1 as
amended, without getting back to the
amendment to the Committee Report EB-1?
THE PRESIDENT: I am not sure I
understood your question. Would you state
that again? Would it be in order to move
to reconsider what?
DELEGATE JOHNSON: The question
is, Mr. President, could we not move for
reconsideration of the action of the Com-
mittee of the Whole on EB-1 as amended,
namely, the 68 to 68 vote, without going
all the way back to the previous vote, that
is, the original Amendment No. 1 to Com-
mittee Report EB-1?
THE PRESIDENT: Yes, indeed, if that
was the motion, but that was not the mo-
tion. The motion was to reconsider the
vote by which the amendment was adopted,
and the Chair ruled that in order to do
that, that the motion would have to em-
brace both votes. The mover of the motion
obviously did not desire to submit a mo-
tion in the form suggested by you. It would
have been in order. Is there a further ques-
tion, Delegate Johnson?
DELEGATE JOHNSON: Yes, Mr.
President, so do I take it that if we pass
this particular motion, I believe the motion
by Delegate Gallagher, that the motion
that I propose would be in order subse-
quently, or for that matter is it in order
now if it is withdrawn?
THE PRESIDENT: I do not think it is
in order now in view of the pending mo-
tion. It certainly would be if the pending
motion were not adopted.
Let the Chair make this perfectly clear:
The control of the Debate Schedule, and
the order in which matters are considered
by the Convention or by the Committee of
the Whole, is in the control of this Con-
vention. It is not in the control of the
Chair nor of the Chairman of the Com-
mittee on Calendar and Agenda.
In order to facilitate the work of the
Convention, the Chairman of the Commit-
tee on Calendar and Agenda, and the
Chair, the President of the Convention, do
work out a schedule in advance to carry
on the debates in accordance with what
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