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know how to behave when the proper time
comes, I will be most appreciative.
THE CHAIRMAN: I will keep the point
in mind. I do not know about the latter
part.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Clagett.
DELEGATE CLAGETT: I rise to a
point of personal privilege that includes a
question to Delegate Case, on the basis of
assurances given to Delegate Case and on
the basis of having been excused by the
Chairman. Am I excused by you, Delegate
Case?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Case.
DELEGATE CASE: Just how do you
want to be excused? With or without
amendment to the amendment?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Clagett.
DELEGATE CLAGETT: Mr. Chairman
and delegates, I am with you insofar as
the action taken by the Constitutional Con-
vention with respect to the board of regents
of the University of Maryland. I do not
want to desert you.
THE CHAIRMAN : He wants to know if
he may be excused this afternoon.
Delegate Case.
DELEGATE CASE: Anything I have in
my power to give you, Delegate Clagett,
you will have.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Bennett.
DELEGATE BENNETT: I wonder if
Delegate Case will yield to a question. I
can understand how the governor should
not be given power to interfere with the
freedom of the university but do you not
think he and the legislature would have
some power over tuition rates, building
construction over —
THE CHAIRMAN: The Chair will rule
the question out of order at this time. It
would open up a discussion which is the
very thing we would want to avoid at this
time.
The Chair has been informed by Dele-
gate Boyce — Delegate Pullen.
DELEGATE PULLEN: Mr. Chairman,
I am so much in sympathy with Mr. Case's
position that I respectfully request to save
indulgence for the public school system
and its program.
THE CHAIRMAN: I am not sure I fol-
low your inquiry. If by that you meant you
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want the same assurances that the recom-
mendation of the Committee on General
Provisions as to public school system as
well as to the University of Maryland
would be granted, that of course, would be
intended.
I do not limit my reply to Delegate Case
to the University of Maryland. I said edu-
cational institutions. Does that answer
your inquiry?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Pullen.
DELEGATE PULLEN: Yes. Thank you.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Kirkland.
DELEGATE KIRKLAND: I have a
resolution which I would like to present to
this body sometime before they leave. It is
of a great deal of interest to quite a few
of us in the free State of Maryland and I
think it is probably most appropriate some-
time before we leave today. When can this
resolution be presented?
THE CHAIRMAN: Very well, if the
Clerk will ring the quorum bell — wait a
minute, we cannot at this moment. You
want to present it to the Convention I as-
sume?
Delegate Kirkland.
DELEGATE KIRKLAND: Yes, sir.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Fornos,
may the Chair direct an inquiry to you?
Delegate Fornos, just before the final
action on the Amendment Nos. 17 and 17A,
the Chair understood Delegate Boyce to
say that if the amendment failed, he would
not offer the minority report or the amend-
ments accompanying it, but that was con-
trary to what I thought he had said earlier.
He apparently has left for Baltimore. Can
you advise me what the situation is?
DELEGATE FORNOS: That is correct.
THE CHAIRMAN: In other words, the
minority now desires to withdraw Amend-
ment Nos. 13, 14 and 15?
DELEGATE FORNOS: Reluctantly.
(Applause.)
THE CHAIRMAN: But, nevertheless,
does.
Thank you, sir.
Amendment Nos. 13, 14, 15 and 16 will
not be destroyed but will be marked with-
drawn, which brings us back to Amend-
ment No. 12 which was held in abeyance
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