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DELEGATE BYRNES: Delegate Ryb-
czynski —
THE CHAIRMAN : Delegate Byrnes, the
Chair reminds you and the other delegates
this period of questions is for clarification
of the minority report, not debate.
Do you have another question?
DELEGATE BYRNES: Yes. I have one
for clarification. I do not understand your
argument that because there is some
mobility within this age bracket that this
for some reason or another disqualifies
them from voting. I do not understand the
reasoning.
DELEGATE RYBCZYNSKI: This rea-
soning goes to the fact that many students,
many young people these days are carried
from state to state. I believe the average
moving age now is about five years or so;
that they have very little time to adjust
and get accustomed to the state in which
they are residing before they move again;
that when they come here they might be by
that time eighteen or nineteen years of
age; and it is hardly a time to put them
in a fresh situation and expect them to
vote at the same time.
THE CHAIRMAN: Are there any other
questions of the minority spokesman for
the purpose of clarification?
Delegate Dorothy Scott Murray.
DELEGATE D. MURRAY: This will
sound rather peculiar, but I think a state-
ment made by Delegate Taylor came out
in a rather peculiar fashion, so may I be
granted a point of personal privilege, if
necessary?
I want to state it first; then you may
rule me out of order.
I want to ask this very definite question:
Could Delegate Byrnes restate the ques-
tion to Delegate Taylor, the one he asked
about the majority and so forth, and see
if Delegate Taylor is still hung on his
original answer? They would know of what
I speak.
THE CHAIRMAN: I am sure. The
Chair does, too.
(Laughter.)
Delegate Taylor does not evidence any
alacrity to take the floor.
DELEGATE CALDWELL: A mind that
is changed occasionally is a clean mind.
THE CHAIRMAN : Are there any other
questions for purposes of clarification?
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Delegate Dorothy Scott Murray.
DELEGATE D. MURRAY: Could I re-
fresh Delegate Taylor's mind? I see he is
refreshed. Thank you.
THE CHAIRMAN : Do you have a ques-
tion to ask of the minority spokesman,
Delegate Harry Taylor?
DELEGATE H. TAYLOR: I want to
give the delegate a chance to shoot at me;
if she wants to refresh her mind, all right.
THE CHAIRMAN: If it can be done
briefly, Delegate Murray.
DELEGATE D. MURRAY: It was not
my mind that needed refreshing; it was
Delegate Taylor's.
(Laughter.)
THE CHAIRMAN: State the personal
privilege.
DELEGATE D. MURRAY: I am still
trying to do it.
Delegate Taylor, do you recall during
one of our meetings you ask one of the
witnesses before our Committee how he
felt about lowering the age of majority so
that the young people could serve on a
jury. I believe the present age is twenty-
five. He asked how that person felt about
lowering that ag%e to, let us say, nineteen?
Are you completely refreshed now?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Harry Tay-
lor.
DELEGATE H. TAYLOR: No, I cannot
remember that. (Laughter.)
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Murray.
DELEGATE D. MURRAY: Then I think
we have the answer. The jury is hung.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Rybczyn-
ski.
DELEGATE RYBCZYNSKI: Mr. Chair-
man and ladies and gentlemen:
In Alaska the age of majority is nine-
teen, and the minimum voting age is nine-
teen.
In Georgia the age of majority is twenty-
one. The minimum voting age is eighteen.
The age of majority in Plawaii is twenty,
the same as the voting age.
In Kentucky, both ages are the same,
eighteen; the age of majority and voting age both are the same.
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