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THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you, Delegate
Rybczynski.
Before the Committee of the Whole rises
and the Convention reconvenes, the Chair
wishes to announce the procedure which
will be followed in taking up the first
amendments, all of which have to do with
age.
There are four such amendments. The
first one to be submitted will be the amend-
ment of the minority, to substitute the age
twenty-one for the age nineteen in the
Committee Recommendation.
The second will be the amendment sub-
mitted by Delegates Hutchinson and
Schloeder, to substitute the age eighteen.
That will be permitted as an amendment to
the amendment.
After we have voted on that, the original
amendment of the minority will then re-
main either as twenty-one or as eighteen,
depending upon the action on the Hutchin-
son amendment.
In either event, we will then consider the
amendment of Delegate Cardin as an
amendment to the minority's amendment, to
substitute the age twenty.
In either event, the amendment, either
in its original form, that is, the minority
recommendation, or as amended, will be
submitted for vote, and you will then vote
on the amendment. If the amendment is
then adopted, the Committee of the Whole
will have decided the age question. It will
not be open to further amendment.
Accordingly, if anyone desires to submit
an amendment specifying an age other
than the ones I have indicated, it must be
offered as an amendment to the minority
amendment, because once the Committee of
the Whole has acted on the minority
amendment, if it has adopted it at least, it
will have fixed the age.
Of course, if it has not adopted it, then
the committee recommendation would still
be open for further amendment.
Let me recapitulate: the first amendment
submitted to you, not for vote, but for con-
sideration, will be the minority's, to sub-
stitute the age twenty-one. You will then
have an opportunity to amend that amend-
ment, to change the age twenty-one to
eighteen. You will then have another op-
portunity to change it either from twenty-
one to twenty, or from eighteen to twenty-
one, depending upon what you have just
voted on.
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After that, you will then be voting on
the successful one of those three, either
twenty-one, twenty, or eighteen, versus the
committee's recommendation of nineteen.
Are there any questions as to the pro-
cedure?
Delegate Frederick.
DELEGATE FREDERICK: How about
leaving it to the General Assembly? Where
would that fall into the line?
THE CHAIRMAN: That would come as
the fourth amendment. It will not relate to
the specified age, regardless of the action
on the previous ones. That amendment,
which is an amendment submitted by Dele-
gates Hutchinson, Schloeder and White,
will be submitted to separate vote there-
after.
Are there any questions?
Delegate Malkus.
DELEGATE MALKUS: Mr. President,
1 have an amendment that I would nat-
urally like to offer. The general nature of
this amendment is this: my amendment will
lower the age of majority in all respects
from twenty-one to nineteen. I think that
is proper as far as this constitution is
concerned.
In other words, I want to go ahead and
make everybody a full-time man, not a
part-time man. I do not want to get cut off
as far as technicalities are concerned.
When, in your wisdom, can I introduce
that amendment?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Malkus, if
I understand you, I do not believe that
amendment would be proper as an amend-
ment to this committee recommendation. It
does not deal with voting1 age, if I follow
you.
There are several courses open to you.
It could be submitted as an independent
proposal, be referred to a committee, and
then proceed from that point. Or a com-
mittee could include it in its recommenda-
tion, any of its recommendations.
Delegate Malkus.
DELEGATE MALKUS: Mr. President,
of course I do not want to argue with you,
because I always lose. But I think this is
an item that should be discussed at this
time. I want to talk on the matter, and I
want to talk a long time on it. You say
I cannot do it now; we are talking about
the voting age.
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