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DELEGATE BAMBERGER: I thought I
just did.
DELEGATE L. TAYLOR: First, I
would say I have worked as a case worker
for the Department of Public Welfare for
a number of years, and we used to certify
patients to mental hospitals, and accord-
ing to my recommendation we only certi-
fied, well, we certified alcoholics, maybe
over a thousand people in a year.
I am trying to find out if you are saying
that under the language of the Committee's
proposal their term covered the mental ill-
ness of people who are denied the right to
vote?
This only covers a small amount of
people compared to the number of people
who are in mental hospitals.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Bamberger.
DELEGATE BAMBERGER: No, I am
not saying that. I am saying only that we
are suggesting that the constitution will
say that people who are mentally ill and
found so by a certain process shall not
vote, but that neither the legislature nor
anybody else should have the power to
take the right to vote away from people
who are just as mentally ill and incom-
petent.
THE CHAIRMAN: Are you ready for
the question?
(Call f 'or the question.)
The question arises on the adoption of
Amendment No. 20. A vote Aye is a vote
in favor of the amendment. A vote No is
a vote against.
Cast your votes.
Has every delegate voted? Does any dele-
gate desire to change his vote?
(There was no response.)
The Clerk will record the vote.
There being 76 votes in the affirmative,
42 in the negative, the motion is carried
and the amendment is adopted.
I would like to go back to the considera-
tion of Amendment Nos. 15 and 16 which
were passed. Amendment Nos. 15 and 16
were passed over at the morning session.
Delegate Raley, does the Chair under-
stand that you now wish to withdraw your
Amendment No. 15?
DELEGATE RALEY: Mr. Chairman,
we are going to want to withdraw that
amendment. Over the lunch hour we worked
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with the Chairman of the Local Govern-
ment Committee, and others, to work out
the language, and we have all agreed upon
a new amendment. It will be submitted by
Delegate Hanson.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Macdonald,
do you also withdraw Amendment No. 16
which was passed over?
DELEGATE MACDONALD: I wish to
have it passed over in preference to the
amendment about to be introduced by Dele-
gate Hanson.
THE CHAIRMAN: Very well.
Will the pages please distribute Amend-
ment B A?
Delegate Macdonald, I am not sure I un-
derstood your last statement. You did with-
draw Amendment No. 16 so that the other
amendment could be submitted?
DELEGATE MACDONALD: I did not,
Mr. Chairman. I wish to have it passed
over and we could come back to it if the —
THE CHAIRMAN: If the other amend-
ment is not adopted, you want to press your
Amendment No. 16.
DELEGATE MACDONALD: Exactly.
THE CHAIRMAN: Very well. Amend-
ment BA will be No. 21.
While we are waiting for that to be dis-
tributed, the Chair cannot refrain from
announcing that it is greatly touched by the
solicitude for the condition of the throat of
the Chair. I have now received a package
of cough drops from the press corps.
The Clerk will read the amendment.
READING CLERK: Amendment No. 21
to Committee Recommendation S&E-2 by
Delegates Hanson, Raley, E. J. Clarke,
Macdonald, Scanlan, Gallagher and Moser:
On page 3, section 7, General Elections,
strike out all of lines 19 through 27, in-
clusive, and insert in lieu thereof the fol-
lowing words:
"A general election shall be held on
the Tuesday next after the first Monday
in November in 1970 and every fourth
year thereafter at which time state of-
ficials shall be elected, except that judges
may be elected in any even-numbered
year. Unless otherwise provided by pub-
lic general law or by instrument of gov-
ernment, elections of county officials
shall be held at the same time as the
election for state officials. Elections for
officials serving on a staggered term basis
may be held every two years."
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