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ecutive Branch establishing a comptroller,
and at that time we will again be faced
with the issue. I do not think we should
face the issue now as we did yesterday, and
then face it again later today.
We should defeat the motion to recon-
sider and then reconsider the question of
the comptroller when we have language on
the floor that we can look at.
THE CHAIRMAN: Does any other dele-
gate desire to speak in favor of the motion
to reconsider?
(There was no response.)
Does any other delegate desire to speak
in opposition?
Delegate Dorsey.
DELEGATE DORSEY: In reply to my
good friend from Montgomery County, let
me say that in this world today when de-
mocracy is disappearing from the face of
the earth, that the greatest bulwarks of
democracy in this nation are the state con-
stitutions as they now exist, and I will say
further, if he will read the writings of
Hamilton he will find that Hamilton wanted
to wipe out the boundaries of states, and
Jefferson was the champion of their sover-
eign rights.
THE CHAIRMAN: Does any other dele-
gate desire 'to speak in favor?
Delegate Fornos.
DELEGATE FORNOS: One parliamen-
tary inquiry, Mr. Chairman.
THE CHAIRMAN: State the inquiry.
DELEGATE FORNOS: If we now vote
to reconsider and dispose of reports as was
originally stated in the manner it was,
there would be no office of —
THE CHAIRMAN: You will have to
state your inquiry again.
DELEGATE FORNOS: If we reconsider
and return our votes to the original lan-
guage of the committee report will we then
not be open to other amendments this after,
noon on that subject?
THE CHAIRMAN: That is correct. So
there will be no misunderstanding — if the
present motion is carried, so that we recon-
sider the two votes, we are then back to a
consideration of Amendment No. 2 to Com-
mittee Recommendation No. 2.
Delegate Ulrich.
DELEGATE ULRICH: Mr. Chairman,
I would like to report to the ladies and
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gentlemen of this Convention that at 7:30
this morning I received a call from the
comptroller, and I would like everyone in
this room to know that I object to such
pressures being put on a delegate.
I was not asked about my vote, but I
was told that he would like to explain the
workings of his office, which I listened to
in the debate on this floor. I did not need
to be told again, and I object to such pres-
sures on a delegate to this Convention.
(Applause.)
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Storm.
DELEGATE STORM: There have been
a number of phone calls made by various
people, which I think have been most un-
fortunate.
Most of the calls have been made by
some of those who do not understand what
the comptroller does and do not understand
what our attorney general does, and yet
have been trying to ram what they call "re-
form" down the throats of the State of
Maryland.
When the people understand this — un-
fortunately, some of you delegates have just
moved into Maryland lately and do not un-
derstand it — (laughter and applause) —
but I suggest to you that the less we say
about phone calls the better, because if you
start talking about phone calls I am going
to start talking about phone calls, and some
of them have not been nice.
THE CHAIRMAN: For what purpose
does Delegate Scanlan rise?
DELEGATE SCANLAN: Reluctantly to
speak in favor of the motion, and more re-
luctantly, to say this: All the arguments
pro and con have been made very well. Un-
fortunately I think I speak for a lot of
delegates in this room when I say in all
candour that the debates in the last day and
a half have all degenerated. We have heard
about Hamilton and Jefferson, we have
heard about crime in Washington, and
crime in Maryland — slot machines in Anne
Arundel, and mysterious phone calls.
Whatever we do, let us stop the debate
which has degenerated from a debate that
up to now, has been of a high-quality,
worthy of any Constitutional Convention.
THE CHAIRMAN: Are you ready for
the question?
(Call for the question.)
Ring the quorum bell.
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