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Delegate Morgan stated at the outset of
his report this morning that the Com-
mittee assumed that that action would re-
quire an elected attorney general, but rec-
ognized it was not compelled.
Delegate Weidemeyer.
DELEGATE WEIDEMEYER: In Dele-
gate Jett's fine remarks on the history of
the great attorneys general, he concluded
his statement by saying he hoped we would
give careful consideration to this amend-
ment.
My question is does he wish us to adopt
it or reject it?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Jett.
DELEGATE JETT: If there is any
question in your mind about it, I sincerely
hope that you will adopt it.
THE CHAIRMAN : Are there any other
questions to the sponsor? Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: Mr. Chairman,
I do not think anything I would say on
this matter would change any votes, so I
am going to sit down and ask that we vote
on it.
THE CHAIRMAN: Very well, are you
ready for the question?
(Call for the question.)
The Clerk will ring the quorum bell.
The question arises on the adoption of
Amendment No. 4 to Committee Recom-
mendation EB-2.
A vote Aye is a vote in favor of Amend-
ment No. 4. 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 31 votes in the affirmative
and 94 in the negative, the motion is lost.
The amendment is rejected.
There are several other amendments to
these two sections. They appear to the
Chair to be amendments that could be dis-
posed of very quickly. I would like to pro-
ceed. If we get into prolonged debate we
will suspend and recess for lunch.
Delegate Jett.
DELEGATE JETT: Mr. Chairman, I
wish to withdraw the Amendment E which
I proposed.
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THE CHAIRMAN : Lunch will be sooner
than expected. Thank you, sir.
Delegate Gill, do you desire to offer your
amendment H?
DELEGATE GILL: I do, Mr. Chairman.
THE CHAIRMAN: The pages will dis-
tribute amendment H. Amendment H goes
to the first unnumbered section of the com-
mittee recommendation. It will be Amend-
ment No. 5. The Clerk will read the amend-
ment.
READING CLERK: Amendment No. 5
to Committee Recommendation EB-2, by
Delegate Gill:
On page 1 section 1, Attorney General
in line 17 after the period add this new
sentence:
"No person elected attorney general for
two full consecutive terms shall be eligible
to hold that office again until one full term
has intervened."
THE CHAIRMAN: The amendment is
offered by Delegate Jett. Is there a second?
(The amendment was duly seconded.)
THE CHAIRMAN : The amendment hav-
ing been seconded, the Chair recognizes
Delegate Gill.
DELEGATE GILL: It has just been de-
cided that the attorney general will be
elected. Last week we passed section 4.02
concerning the governor, which included
exactly the same words in Amendment
No. 5.
Before the lieutenant governor was ap-
proved as a statewide elected office and to
be placed in our constitution, we also said
that he would be bound by that same quali-
fication or requirement.
As mentioned, when I asked of Delegate
Morgan in the questioning period if the
Committee had considered this requirement,
he said they had not taken a vote on it,
and I think the Committee of the Whole
should be recorded as to whether or not
they think the attorney general should
serve more than two terms, or whether he
should be restricted to the two consecutive
terms.
Of course I realize that before the lieu-
tenant governor was added the attorney
general job was really a stepping stone to
the governorship, but now it is one more
step removed, so this might not be as vul-
nerable a requirement as it was in the past.
I hope this amendment will be voted on,
and naturally I hope it will pass, or be
approved.
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