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THE CHAIRMAN: State the inquiry.
DELEGATE CHABOT: Do I understand
we are going to vote on reconsidering the
vote by which Recommendation No. 2 was
adopted and also the vote to amend Recom-
mendation No. 2?
THE CHAIRMAN: That was not the
motion, as the Chair understands it. I will
ask Delegate Gleason about that.
DELEGATE GLEASON: That was my
motion, as Delegate Chabot phrased it.
THE CHAIRMAN: You intend your mo-
tion to be to reconsider the vote by which
the Committee of the Whole approved the
committee recommendation as amended,
and to reconsider the vote by which the
amendment to Committee Recommendation
No. 2 was approved? Is that your motion?
DELEGATE GLEASON: That is cor-
rect.
Is that motion seconded?
THE CHAIRMAN: For what purpose
does Delegate Sybert rise?
DELEGATE SYBERT: A matter of par-
liamentary inquiry.
THE CHAIRMAN: State the inquiry.
DELEGATE SYBERT: Is it parliamen-
tarily correct to reconsider the votes on
two separate motions?
THE CHAIRMAN: As the Chair indi-
cated when a similar question arose several
days ago, that is the only way in which
the motion to reconsider the amendment
could be put to the Committee of the Whole.
I think it is proper, and I so ruled sev-
eral days ago.
The Chair recognizes Delegate Gleason
to speak to the motion.
DELEGATE GLEASON: Mr. Chairman
and fellow delegates: It appears to this
representative at this Convention that for
the past four weeks while this Committee
has marched up a hill to reform, some-
times laboriously so — yesterday and today
we decided to march down that hill very
rapidly, for we decided yesterday that in-
stead of having three branches of the gov-
ernment, we are going to continue to have
four branches of government; and by the
vote that has been concluded just now we
have expanded that four to five.
\ It is my humble judgment — and I do not
say this in disrespect to any member of
the Committee here present — that there is
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a great deal of politics enmeshed in this
entire question.
When we look back over the governors
that have been elected in this State since
the beginning of the century, the Manual
tells us that there are 12 governors who
have held that office, and of those 12 gov-
ernors, 8 have come out of the offices of
the attorney general and comptroller be-
fore reaching the office of governor.
Now, I asked myself the question, as I
hoped some of you delegates would ask the
question of yourselves, where are these
people when they are not attending to re-
sponsibilities which you think are so pre-
cious in the offices to which they are
elected? Where are they being maintained
when these people are out campaigning for
the office of governor? We have looked at
the duties of the attorney general as ad-
vising the legislature, advising the gover-
nor, but how can we have those duties
maintained when one eye is on the law and
the other eye is on the gubernatorial seat?
There has been much talk in this chamber
about Jeffersonian democracy and Hamil-
tonian aristocracy. I wish that delegate
would go back and read the Federalist
papers sometime, because there is one
message that comes through those papers,
and that message is that the federal gov-
ernment will handle the big affairs of the
country, international and domestic affairs,
but all the other matters will be left to
the states.
Now, ask yourself, where do we stand
today with the federal government? Are
they handling just the big affairs of the
country in international events? They are
handling the events of our citizens in
Maryland that have heretofore but not in
the last 25 years been handled by the states.
That is one message that we have to get
clear to ourselves.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gleason, I
am sorry, your time has expired. I will
have to call time on you. After other dele-
gates have spoken, you can speak again.
Delegate Schneider.
DELEGATE SCHNEIDER: I would
like to speak against the motion to recon-
sider, although I intend to vote for an ap-
pointed comptroller.
I think we should take another vote as
to whether or not the comptroller should
be in the constitution. Later today we will
again have an amendment to the section of
the committee recommendation of the Ex-
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