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(The roll call was taken.)
There being a quorum present, we will
now proceed.
Are there any members who have amend-
ments to section 4.01?
(There was no response.)
The Chair, hearing none, we will go to
the next section, 4.02. Are there any amend-
ments to this section?
(There was no response.)
The Chair hearing none, we will proceed
to section 4.03. Are there any amendments
to section 4.03?
The Chair recognizes Delegate Chabot.
DELEGATE CHABOT: Mr. Chairman,
I have prepared an amendment. It will take
a while to get here. I wonder if there are
any other amendments, if I may have per-
mission to present my amendment as soon
as it comes back here, and we may pass on
to other matters in the meantime.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Yes. If there is no objection, we could re-
turn to this section when the amendment
is prepared.
We will now go to section 4.04. Are there
any amendments to this section?
(There was no response.)
The Chair hearing none, we will pro-
ceed to section 4.05. Are there any amend-
ments to section 4.05?
The Chair recognizes Delegate Bothe.
DELEGATE BOTHE: Amendment X.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Yes. This is Amendment X. The pages will
please distribute Amendment X.
(President H. Vernon Eney resumed the
Chair.)
THE CHAIRMAN: This will be Amend-
ment No. 1.
Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: There is a ty-
pographical error in line 22, on page 2.
"Not" is supposed to be "nor", and I ask
unanimous consent —
THE CHAIRMAN: This is in section
4.04?
DELEGATE MORGAN: Yes, sir, line
22, "not" should be "nor".
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THE CHAIRMAN: The Chairman of
the Committee calls attention to the typo-
graphical error in line 22 on page 2 of the
Committee Recommendation, section 4.04.
The word "not" should be the word
"nor", n-o-r. In the absence of objection,
the correction will be made. There appears
to be no objection. Please make the cor-
rection.
Amendment No. 1 to section 4.05. The
Clerk will read the amendment, please.
READING CLERK: Amendment No. 1
to Committee Recommendation EB-1 by
Delegates Bothe, Bamberger, and Sollins:
On page 2, section 4.05, Election of Gov-
ernor and Lieutenant Governor, line 45,
after the words "lieutenant governor" add
the words "and for attorney general"; and
on page 2 strike out all of lines 49 and 50
and insert in lieu thereof the following:
"also for the other two candidates. The
candidates for lieutenant governor and at-
torney general whose names appear on
the", and on page 3 line 2, before the word
"for" insert the words "and attorney gen-
eral respectively".
THE CHAIRMAN: The amendment hav-
ing been seconded the Chair recognizes
Delegate Bothe to speak to the amendment.
DELEGATE BOTHE: Mr. Chairman,
the effect of this amendment would be to
have the attorney general, assuming that
he is an elected state-wide official, and that
he is the only other elected official in addi-
tion to the governor and lieutenant gov-
ernor, ride in tandem or on a team with
the governor and lieutenant governor.
I think the purpose and the advantage
to this arrangement is somewhat self-evi-
dent, and grows out of many of the argu-
ments pro and con that have been raised
in this chamber in the last several days re-
garding the desirability of a unified execu-
tive in the State.
I submit that it is a very workable com-
promise between the extremes of giving the
people no choice in the participation of
their chief legal officer in this Convention,
when it has been determined that they
should have that choice, and giving the
chief executive of the State the opportunity
to have a voice in the choice of his legal
officer as well.
The Committee has already, as you are
aware, proposed that the lieutenant gov-
ernor and the governor run jointly.
The same rationale, I submit, should
apply in the case of the attorney general.
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