that if said schedule is not rejected by the
General Assembly within thirty days, it
shall have the force of law at the first pay
period following the next general election.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Proposal
No. 363 is referred to the Committee on
General Provisions.
Delegate Proposal No. 364. The Clerk
will read the proposal.
READING CLERK: Delegate Proposal
No. 364, by Delegate Wheatley. Title,
A PROPOSAL that the relationship be-
tween the General Assembly and the gov-
ernor in the preparation of the state budget
be expanded to allow the General Assembly
to obtain more adequate information in the
budget's formative stage prior to the gov-
ernor's budget message.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Proposal
No. 364 is referred to the Committee on
State Finance and Taxation.
Next on the agenda is motions and reso-
lutions. Are there any motions or resolu-
tions?
(There was no response.)
I have no announcements. Are there any
announcements by committee chairmen?
Delegate Koss?
DELEGATE KOSS: Mr. President, the
Committee on Suffrage and Elections will
convene ten minutes after the adjournment
of this afternoon's plenary session and will
meet again tomorrow morning at 10:00
A.M. Thank you.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: The Com-
mittee on the Legislative Branch will meet
ten minutes after the close of this session
to hear Messrs. J. Cookman Boyd, Jr., W.
Orville Wright, and James J. Doyle, legis-
lative aides, who are testifying today. We
are meeting tomorrow beginning 9:30 A.M.
The committee will meet this evening at
7:45 P.M. in H-8 to consider such testimony
as the public may have with respect to a
unicameral and bicameral General Assem-
bly.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Dulany.
DELEGATE DULANY: Mr. President,
the Committee on Public Information
wishes to report the score is now seven to
one, top of the eighth, in favor of the
Cards. The Committee on Public Informa-
tion will meet tomorrow at 1:15 P.M. in
Room H-18 to consider Resolution No. 3. |
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Mudd.
DELEGATE MUDD: Mr. President, the
Committee on the Judicial Branch will meet
again this afternoon at 3:00 P.M. and to-
morrow morning we resume hearings on
delegate proposals beginning at 10:00 A.M.
on Delegate Proposal 219 introduced by
Delegate Kirkland having to do with clerks
of court. At 11:00 A.M. we hear from Dele-
gate Grant of Garrett County regarding
courts of limited jurisdiction. At 12:00
noon we consider Delegate Proposal No.
272.
Our formal hearings with witnesses will
be concluded tomorrow with the final wit-
ness being Rignal W. Baldwin of the Mary-
land Bar Association at 3:00 P.M. Tomor-
row concludes our formal hearings except
for the public hearing Monday evening 7:30
P.M. in the Shaw House previously an-
nounced at which all delegates and their
constituents will be welcome. Thank you.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: Mr. President,
the Committee on the Executive Branch
will meet ten minutes after adjournment
of this session to discuss procedural mat-
ters in connection with our decision-making
process.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Sherbow.
DELEGATE SHERBOW: Mr. President,
the Committee on State Finance and Taxa-
tion will continue its hearings tomorrow
morning on a number of proposals. We are
acting on them and filing our memoranda
with the Clerk. If there are members of
the Constitutional Convention who have
views that they want us to obtain from
them on the subjects that we have been
holding hearings on, we urge you to get
them in promptly because beginning next
week, we are going to hold our debates and
begin reporting these matters out on the
floor. If you have any views, please let us
have them from you promptly.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Kiefer.
DELEGATE KIEFER: Mr. President,
the Committee on Personal Rights and the
Preamble has been holding hearings this
morning on the right to know and freedom
of expression. These were held in the Sen-
ate Chamber. They will continue as soon
as you and the officers finish interviewing
these press people at the same place. This
afternoon we will hear from George Dela-
plaine, Jr., Editor and Publisher of the
Frederick News and Post and Francis
Porter from the Washington Daily News. |
