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THE PRESIDENT: Are there any mo-
tions and resolutions?
(There was no response.)
The Chair recognizes Delegate Powers.
DELEGATE POWERS: Mr. President,
Motion No. 7.
THE PRESIDENT: The Clerk will read
the motion.
READING CLERK: Motion No. 7 by
Delegate Powers.
A MOTION to make reconsideration of
GP-4 a special order and limit debate.
THE PRESIDENT: Is there a second?
(Whereupon, the motion was duly sec-
onded.)
THE PRESIDENT: The motion having
been seconded, the Chair recognizes Dele-
gate Powers.
DELEGATE POWERS: Mr. President,
I do not know whether this motion has been
fully distributed, but it provides that Com-
mittee Recommendation GP-4 be made a
special order for 12:00 noon —
THE PRESIDENT: Just a minute.
Will the pages distribute the motion?
Delegates who have not received the mo-
tion, please indicate to the pages.
Delegate Powers.
DELEGATE POWERS: Mr. President,
this motion provides that Committee Rec-
ommendation No. GP-4 which was moved
by Delegate Johnson for reconsideration be
set for special order at noon tomorrow and
that the debate be limited to thirty minutes,
fifteen minutes per side, and two minutes
for each speech.
THE PRESIDENT: Are there any ques-
tions?
Delegate Bard.
DELEGATE BARD: Mr. President,
would it be in order to cut this further to
ten minutes each?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think that
the Committee on Calendar and Agenda
has given pretty careful thought to it. You
do not have to use the full time merely
because it is allowed in the schedule.
Delegate Powers.
DELEGATE POWERS: Our position is
that the entire thirty minutes need not be
utilized.
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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Scanlan.
DELEGATE SCANLAN: Delegate Bard
anticipated my reaction. It is all very well
to say we hope that the thirty minutes will
not be utilized, but it is almost our universal
experience that the thirty minutes will be
utilized. I move, therefore, to amend the
motion and change thirty minutes to twenty
minutes and to allow ten minutes for each
side.
(Whereupon, the motion was duly sec-
onded.)
THE PRESIDENT: Very well. It has
been moved that the motion be amended so
as to limit the time to a total of twenty
minutes instead of thirty, ten minutes to
each side.
Is there any further discussion?
Delegate Beatrice Miller.
DELEGATE B. MILLER: I would like
to request information from the Chairman
of the Committee on Calendar. Have he
and his Committee considered whether, if
we reconsider each motion each session of
this Convention, and grant even twenty
minutes to each, we can finish by January
12?. Has his Committee considered this?
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Powers.
DELEGATE POWERS: Mr. President,
this particular question is in a little differ-
ent category in that the vote by which the
Committee Recommendation was adopted
was less than the necessary seventy-two.
The purpose of setting it at a time cer-
tain was that as many delegates as pos-
sible would be here. It was thought under
the circumstances that this would possibly
require a little bit more time than the
usual motions for reconsideration.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Boileau.
DELEGATE BOILEAU: Mr. Chairman,
I was the seconder of the motion, and I
did, in fact, second it because of the point
that Chairman Powers made, that there
had not been a sufficient number of dele-
gates here. I would not be the least bit
concerned if there were no debate over it;
I think there has been more than adequate
debate on that particular question.
THE PRESIDENT: The Chair suggests
that we are wasting more time considering
whether there should be a debate than if we
went ahead.
(Applause.)
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