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the State of Maryland get out of gambling,
including horse racing. I have nothing
against horse racing but 1 have learned
that you cannot discriminate any more in
this country and I believe that is a good
thing but let us not discriminate against
gambling. If you want to gamble, my
friend, Scanlan, says horse racing is a
game. He might be a smart man in figur-
ing out these games but some of my friends
are not that smart.
My point is this, Mr. Chairman: Let us
face up to reality, are we going to allow
gambling in Maryland or aren't we? Let
us not be hypocrites. Let us not say it is
all right to gamble on a horse and lose
your shirt on a horse but for Heaven's
sakes don't buy a lottery ticket. Now, Mr.
President, you have been very patient like
Governor Tawes said at, I understand, a
little conference that you had the other
evening; you are President, and you are
patient but this is a Constitutional Con-
vention and I would like to go ahead and
talk on the record and I hope you don't
cut what I have said out because there is
not any difference between gambling —
gambling causes an awful lot of misery
and a lot of people have lost their homes
and wives and everything else because their
horses did not run fast enough.
THE CHAIRMAN: You have one-half
minute, Delegate Malkus.
DELEGATE MALKUS: Thank you, Mr.
Chairman.
If the horses run slow, that is 0. K., that
is a game. But for Heaven's sake, don't
go ahead and bet on the lottery and num-
bers. I don't believe in any of them. I also
believe there is no difference in it.
THE CHAIRMAN: Does any other dele-
gate desire to speak on the motion to re-
consider?
The question arises on the motion to
reconsider the vote on which Committee
Recommendation SF-2 was approved.
A vote Aye is a vote in favor of recon-
sideration. A vote No is a vote against.
Cast your vote.
Has every delegate voted?
Does any delegate desire to change his
vote?
(There was )io response.)
The Clerk will record the vote.
There being 69 votes in the affirmative
and 58 votes in the negative the motion
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by which the Commission Recommendation
SF-2 is approved is reconsidered. The
Chair recognizes Delegate Scanlan.
DELEGATE SCANLAN: Mr. Chairman,
fellow delegates, 1 would now like to offer
the amendment to which I adverted in the
debate on the motion for reconsideration.
The sole purpose of the amendment —
THE CHAIRMAN: Just a second, before
you speak to it. The amendment is offered
solely by you?
DELEGATE SCANLAN: Well, the orig-
inal authors were Delegate James, —
THE CHAIRMAN: I am asking you now
whether you are offering the amendment on
behalf of yourself.
DELEGATE SCANLAN: I will offer it
on behalf of myself and if there are a few
courageous fellows around they can join in.
Thank you, Delegate Raley. Sorry, Carl-
ton.
A few volunteers here, you can get the
names.
THE CHAIRMAN: The amendment is
offered on behalf of Delegates Scanlan,
Raley and Boileau, Finch, and Harry
Taylor.
DELEGATE SCANLAN: Mr. Mosner
also.
THE CHAIRMAN: Please mark your
copies accordingly.
This will be Amendment No. 1. Does the
Chair understand Delegate Sickles, you are
modifying the amendment by changing the
words "General Assembly" in line 4 to
read simply "state"?
DELEGATE SICKLES: Yes.
THE CHAIRMAN: Amendment No. 1,
offered by Delegates Scanlan, Raley, Boil-
eau, and Finch reads as follows: "Neither
the State nor the governing body of any
political subdivision of the State shall oper-
ate or authorize a lottery for the purpose
of financing any expenses of government."
The Chair recognizes Delegate Scanlan
to speak to the amendment.
DELEGATE SCANLAN: The sole pur-
pose of this amendment as I understand it
from its original framers and as I now
adopt it is to make perfectly clear that
the General Assembly, the state govern-
ment and the governments of the political
subdivisions may not either operate or
permit the operation or authorize the op-
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