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had just finished this first aid course and
she was very excited about how to save
lives. On her way home she saw a man
lying face down on the side of the street.
She stopped the car and tried to give him
artificial respiration. He looked up and said,
"I do not know what you are doing but you
sure are lousing up my job of passing this
wire down to people in the manhole."
So if I am lousing up the people in the
manhole, I am sorry.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Clagett.
DELEGATE CLAGETT: Delegate Kiefer,
would you have any objection to adding in
lieu of the period at the end of the sentence
the words "by public general law"?
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Kiefer.
DELEGATE KIEFER: I do not know if
you are down in the manhole or not, but I
would have no objection to that, if that
would be helpful.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding) :
Delegate Clagett.
DELEGATE CLAGETT: I would suggest
to you that that would avoid any discrimi-
nation by the General Assembly in favor of
one instrumentality or political subdivision
and required uniformity throughout the
entire State with respect to all instrumen-
talities and political subdivisions.
DELEGATE KIEFER: This is what I
think we would intend that amendment and
would be perfectly agreeable to me.
DELEGATE CLAGETT: Then may we
add "by public general law" after "assem-
bly"?
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
There are thirty seconds left.
Delegate E. Churchill Murray.
DELEGATE E. C. MURRAY: I do not
want to ask a question. I want to make a
statement. Would you rather that I wait
until a later time?
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Delegate Murray, what was that?
DELEGATE E. C. MURRAY: I do not
want to ask the maker a question, I want
to make a statement. Would you rather I
wait until after this time?
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
I think it would be best. The Chair has to
ascertain whether Delegate Kiefer accepts
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the modification mentioned by Delegate
Clagett.
DELEGATE KIEFER: Mr. Chairman, I
just do not really know. Maybe instead of
saying the General Assembly, we should
just say "by law."
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Do you wish to make this clarification? We
have to have unanimous consent to do it.
DELEGATE KIEFER: Mr. Chairman, I
have to say to you that the concept that I
have is that this matter would be left en-
tirely to the General Assembly. I do not
particularly want to tie the hands of the
legislature by making any additional change.
I think leaving it the way it is is better.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
Very well. The time for questions has
passed. Does anyone desire to speak against
the amendment?
Delegate Kosakowski.
DELEGATE KOSAKOWSKI: Mr. Chair-
man, I arise to speak against the amend-
ment. The vote indicated on this amendment
is indicative of the true meaning that the
majority of the Committee desired. I defend
the majority report.
We mean what we say of the concept, and
I believe in not watering this concept down.
When you vote to scale an amendment down,
you really meant you want section 7 as it is.
That is the true meaning that the Commit-
tee wanted and I do not believe that Dele-
gate Weidemeyer wants to water anything
down. I will urge you to defeat the amend-
ment and support the majority report.
DELEGATE J. CLARK (presiding):
The Chair recognizes Delegate Willoner.
DELEGATE WILLONER: Mr. Chairman,
I just wanted to make it abundantly clear
that Delegate Kiefer was not speaking for
the majority, and that I was delegated that
power. In answer to the question of Dele-
gate Moser, the question being whether the
General Assembly should have broad power
in dealing with this under Section 7 of the
majority report, the answer would be yes.
We wanted to give the General Assembly
the freedom in handling this problem, so
they would not be forced to keep govern-
mental immunity. They might have to pro-
tect all municipalities rather than one small
one that they might have had a particular
reason to support.
In answer to Delegate Moser's question
the answer would have been yes, and that
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