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on this board of public review a man who
may no longer have the physical knowledge
and experience and day to day control
that he should have for making his deci-
sions as a member of this board, and I am
opposed to this amendment.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Dukes.
DELEGATE DUKES: Mr. Chairman,
I am very sorry for those who are ashamed
to be with us tonight. I am particularly
sorry because this is my proudest day as
a member of this Convention. It has been
clear for all of today, and a good deal of
yesterday and the day before, that a
struggle would evolve around the particu-
lar item which is before us now. If it is
bad, if the principle of compromise is a
weakness, then I am sure my marriage of
12 years will last no more than two weeks.
I am sure I would have abandoned my three
children years ago, I am sure I would have
never settled a law case and I am sure as
I drive home tonight I would run over
many people. I think probably a day would
not go by without some form of compro-
mise. I believe that each of the persons who
sponsored the amendment before us still
believes as firmly what he believed before.
I also believe from my experience that
whenever a number of people from each
side can stand up and say that the other
side got all the best of the deal and that
they got all the worse of it, the agreement
was not very bad at all. Under these cir-
cumstances, I hope we will go to a com-
pelling vote, push this amendment over,
clear up the matter because as Delegate
Penniman says, it is not very important
and we are spending a lot of time on it.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Malkus.
DELEGATE MALKUS: Mr. President,
I rise upon a point of inquiry.
THE CHAIRMAN: State the inquiry.
DELEGATE MALKUS: And I direct
that to you, sir.
Is there any parliamentary procedure
that you know of by which I could move to
delay this thing until 11: 00 o'clock tomor-
row morning?
THE CHAIRMAN: The Chair hereto-
fore answered the inquiry and told you
you could move the Committee to rise. You
did so. You were not sustained. I know of
no other procedure.
DELEGATE MALKUS: Is that the
same procedure that was used some two
days ago when we were talking about the
Board of Public Works?
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THE CHAIRMAN: It was precisely the
same.
DELEGATE MALKUS: Now, Mr. Presi-
dent, may I speak.
THE CHAIRMAN: You may speak.
DELEGATE MALKUS: Mr. President,
I doubt very seriously, no one seems to
care, and I am like some other people in
this body, I am starting to lose respect for
what we are doing. I doubt seriously, Mr.
President, whether very many people in
this Convention know what these amend-
ments do. I could ask the Chairman to give
me in detail the difference between the
duties of the comptroller under the old
system and this system. I would like, Mr.
President, to have that opportunity but
this Convention only gave me 18 votes. They
do not seem to care. There really is not
any use in talking anymore because the
whole Convention has gone to pot. Every-
body is talking about the authorities around
here. There is dickering. We have a right
to do that but I do not know, Mr. President,
what this amendment does. I do not know
and I am going to accuse most of you here
of not knowing also what this amendment
does, but if you want to go ahead and
throw something out the window that has
been in existence for 109 years because at
this late hour this afternoon you have
come up with a compromise, you are
smarter than I am, all of you are smarter
than I am. I do not know what this compro-
mise does; I do not know that this amend-
ment does.
Mr. President —
THE CHAIRMAN: You have one-half
minute, Delegate Malkus.
DELEGATE MALKUS: Well, you know
I made a speech last night in Pikesville,
Mr. President, and I was talking in opposi-
tion to Clinton Bamberger, and every time
he talked too long, do you know what I
said, Mr. President, you have 15 more sec-
onds, Clinton.
THE CHAIRMAN: You have a little
less than that right now.
DELEGATE MALKUS: And like Clinton
Bamberger said to you and I say it to you,
Mr. President, he did not shut up and I
know you will not cut me off. You are too
much of a gentleman for that, but, Mr.
President, there is no sense talking any
further. Let's get on with the show. Let's
do anything you want, anything you want
and let's go ahead and talk to the people
on May 12.
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