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(Call for the question.)
The question arises on the adoption of
the amendment to Amendment No. 17 to
Committee Recommendation EB-1. This is
not on the adoption of the amendment.
That will be submitted to you separately.
For purposes of identification the amend-
ment will be Amendment 17 (A). The
amendment as submitted by Delegate
Maurer is to strike out the first sentence of
section 4.20 and insert in lieu of it the
following sentence, except for the state
public school system and institutions of
higher education, the head of each prin-
cipal department of the executive branch
shall be a single executive. The effect of
the amendment to the amendment is to add
to that sentence the phrase "unless other-
wise provided by law."
A vote Aye is a vote in favor of the
amendment to Amendment No. 17. A vote
No is a vote against.
In either event, whether the amendment
to the amendment is adopted or rejected,
the amendment will then be submitted to
you either in its original form or as
amended.
A vote Aye, a vote in favor of the
amendment to the amendment. A vote No,
is a vote against.
Cast your votes.
Has every delegate voted? Does any dele-
gate desire to change his vote?
(There was no response.)
The Clerk will record the vote.
There being 49 votes in the affirmative
and 70 votes in the negative, the motion is
lost. The amendment to the amendment is
rejected.
The question now arises on the adop-
tion of the amendment in its form as orig-
inally offered, that is with the sentence
the Chair read to you.
A vote Aye is a vote in favor of Amend-
ment No. 17 to Committee Recommenda-
tion EB-1 and against the committee rec-
ommendation in effect. A vote No is a vote
against the amendment and in favor of the
committee recommendation.
Cast your votes.
Has every delegate voted? Does any dele-
gate desire to change his vote?
(There was no response.)
The Clerk will record the vote.
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There being 43 votes in the affirmative
and 75 in the negative, the motion is lost.
The amendment is rejected.
Before submitting the next amendment
or proceeding further, the Chair would like
to inquire how many delegates would be
intending to drive home to either the Bal-
timore or Washington areas this evening.
Would you please stand?
Very well. The Chair has this announce-
ment or series of announcements to make.
The present temperature is twenty-eight
degrees. It is not expected to get any
warmer. The snow in the Washington area
is turning to sleet. The snow is expected
to end at approximately 8:00 P.M. to 9:00
P.M. It will have further accumulations of
up to four to five inches. The temperatures
this evening and tonight will be in the
upper twenties and low thirties. The winds
tonight will be approximately ten to twenty
miles per hour. There is approximately five
inches of snow in Annapolis at the present
time. State offices in the Annapolis area
are closing at 3:30 P.M. Under the circum-
stances, I think it desirable that we ad-
journ at an early hour. I will ask Delegate
Powers to consult with the Chair in a few
minutes to make a few minutes and deter-
mine at what hour to adjourn.
Delegate Powers, could you come up to
the rostrum now?
DELEGATE STORM: Mr. Chairman,
your announcement just changed my mind.
I do not know whether you want us to
stand again or not.
THE CHAIRMAN: The purpose of the
Chair's inquiry was simply this : The Chair
had been advised that many delegates who
normally would be commuting to the Bal-
timore and Washington areas had made ar-
rangements to stay down here. If only a
few delegates were leaving, we were going
to suggest that they leave and we could
continue. But if the number who stood are
leaving, I do not think that would be
feasible.
DELEGATE STORM: Maybe the others
will react the way I did. I can put up one
other delegate.
THE CHAIRMAN: Are there any other
delegates who reacted like Delegate Storm?
Maybe we better ask that the delegates
who now intend to commute to the Balti-
more-Washington areas please stand.
Delegate Clagett.
DELEGATE CLAGETT: Since Delegate
Malkus is a farmer as am I, where is he?
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