investigation turns from an inquisitorial
process to an accusational process.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Proposal
No. 247 is referred to the Committee on
Personal Rights and the Preamble.
The next item of business is the motions
and resolutions.
Resolution No. 8 should be distributed
and on your desk. The Clerk will read the
resolution.
READING CLERK: Resolution No. 8 by
Delegate Gerald D. Morgan.
A RESOLUTION concerning the amend-
ment of Rule 53 [57] of the Standing Rules
providing that no proposals by delegates
may be introduced after October 13, 1967.
THE PRESIDENT: Resolution No. 8 is
referred to the Committee on Rules, Cre-
dentials and Convention Budget.
Are there any other resolutions? I have
a few announcements I would like to make
at this time.
I have received a request from several
delegatss for instructions as to what pro-
cedure the Convention will follow with
respect to amendments to proposals already
introduced; that is, amendments which are
desired to be made or suggested by a dele-
gate not on the committee. I have asked the
Committee on Rules, Credentials and Con-
vention Budget to consider the matter and
advise the Convention.
Following the public hearing last night,
which was so poorly attended, and the re-
sultant newspaper publicity concerning
poor attendance, there were a number of
telephone calls this morning to my office
and to the Secretary's office indicating that
persons did not know of the public hearing,
notwithstanding the fact that these hear-
ings are announced well in advance in the
chamber and are included in the announce-
ments made by the Public Information
Service, and in every way that we have
been able to advise, made known to the
public generally. This is part of the over-
all problem of getting the word out to the
citizenry of these hearings. It is particu-
larly important when a committee goes to
the trouble of scheduling a public hearing
in the evening, at a time when any citizen
can come and present to the committee
holding the hearing any views he may have,
that the citizens are not informed. I would
therefore request each delegate to make it
his business, to make himself a committee
of one, to publicize in his own locality to |
the greatest possible extent the open pub-
lic hearings by the various committees.
If you have any suggestions as to means
by which the Information Service can get
wider publicity of these hearings, they will
be gratefully received.
As all of you know, the Constitutional
Convention of New York adjourned a few
days ago and submitted to the people of
that State a constitution which they had
drafted. We have requested sufficient copies
of the constitution promulgated by the
New York Convention to furnish each dele-
gate with a copy. There will be a slight
delay because we are informed that the
copies which were fairly widely distributed
on the last day of the session of the New
York Convention were not correct in that
there were some last-minute changes. I
understand, however, that we will have
copies by the middle of next week.
We have also requested copies from the
Constitutional Convention of Rhode Island,
which just a few days ago adjourned after
their sessions lasting over a period of about
two years. These documents will be here
also, not quite so promptly as the New
York documents, but by the end of next
week we hope.
At the meeting of the chairmen yester-
day to discuss progress, it was suggested
that it would be desirable if all committee
chairmen would keep the hours from 12:00
Noon until 2:00 P.M. on each Thursday
free of all committee hearings as a period
of respite for the delegates, to enable them
to meet their constituents, to have lunch
with the people they would like to lunch
with, and in general to make plans in ad-
vance. This was readily agreed to by all
the committee chairmen, and therefore they
will so arrange the hearings that whether
a particular hearing is or is not concluded
at 12:00, each committee will adjourn any
hearing it may be conducting promptly at
12:00 o'clock on Thursday so that delegates
can make personal engagements from the
period of 12:00 to 2:00 on Thursday with-
out fear of being interfered with by com-
mittee hearings.
I am advised by the Secretary that your
identification cards are ready and either on
your desk or will be distributed to you this
afternoon.
I have appointed an Entertainment Com-
mittee, pursuant to the motion adopted by
the Convention some days ago. I will ask
the Clerk to read the names.
READING CLERK: The Entertainment
Committee consisting of Delegates Vincent |
