Amen.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.
Roll call.
(Whereupon the roll call was taken.)
THE PRESIDENT: Have all delegates
answered the roll call? The Clerk will re-
cord the roll call.
There being a quorum present, the Con-
vention is in session.
The Chair recognizes Delegate Powers,
Chairman of the Committee on Calendar
and Agenda.
DELEGATE POWERS: Mr. President,
I move we adopt today's calendar.
THE PRESIDENT: Is there a second?
(The motion was duly seconded.)
THE PRESIDENT: All those in favor,
signify by saying Aye; contrary, No. The
Ayes have it. It is so ordered. The calendar
is adopted.
The first item of business is the consid-
eration of the Tenth Report of the Com-
mittee on Rules, Credentials and Conven-
tion Budget. This is a report with respect
to Resolution No. 13 offered by Delegate
Malkus on October 5. The Report is R & C
10. The Chair recognizes Delegate Scanlan,
Chairman of the Committee. Will you come
forward, please?
DELEGATE SCANLAN: Mr. President,
fellow delegates, I have the honor to pre-
sent the Tenth Report of the Committee
on Rules, Credentials and Convention
Budget.
The report deals with Resolution No. 13.
In the event you do not have Resolution
No. 13 before you, if you have the Com-
mittee Report, it is set forth in the first
page of the Committee Report, as follows:
RESOLVED BY THE CONSTITU-
TIONAL CONVENTION OF 1967, that
the President of the Convention is directed,
within five days after the passage of this
resolution, to give to each delegate in the
Constitutional Convention of 1967 a general
summary of the report of the money spent
and encumbered to date by the Constitu-
tional Convention;
AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
That the president is directed thereafter
to submit to each member of the Conven-
tion a similar report at approximately
fifteen-day intervals; and the final RE- |
SOLVED clause requests copies of the reso-
lution be sent to the president, comptroller,
et cetera.
The committee had a hearing on this
resolution on October 11, the same day
they held a hearing on the estimated
budget, which the committee had been fur-
nished by the President and the officers of
the Convention.
During the course of this hearing, the
President of the Convention appeared
along with a budget anaylst and the Secre-
tary of the Convention, and in the course
of his testimony, he outlined in detail the
items of the estimated budget that had
been prepared. That budget, which has
been adjusted, I believe, to reflect a sug-
gestion on the part of the Committee on
Rules, will be very shortly distributed to
the delegates.
Secondly, in his testimony the President
indicated that the very type of report for
which the resolution called would be fur-
nished the delegates, and that prior to his
testimony before our Committee, he had
arranged with the appropriate officials in
the office of the comptroller to supply the
periodic reports regarding the expenditures
of money on the part of the Convention.
Testimony was long and detailed, and
the sponsor of the resolution was present
during most of that testimony.
After the testimony of the President,
and on the basis of his assurance that the
information called for by the resolution
was to be provided, it was the view of the
committee that really the purposes of the
resolution had been accomplished, and there
were at least a number of us on the com-
mittee that felt that there was no further
action required on the part of the commit-
tee or on the part of the Convention, at
least at this time. In other words, we
thought the matter was at least tempo-
rarily moot. Nevertheless, the sponsor of
the resolution pressed the Committee for
a vote on his resolution. There was, with
one exception, the sponsor himself, no senti-
ment for a favorable report; and so we
voted a non-favorable report, but I think it
fair to say that the unfavorable report
was primarily, because most of us believed
that the matters dealt with in the resolu-
tion, and the information that it sought
were already going to be provided, and
therefore there was no need for further
action.
A number of us were concerned, and
certainly your Chairman was one, that by
reporting out a resolution, which was |
