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THE PRESIDENT: All in favor signify
by saying Aye; contrary, No. The Ayes
have it. It is so ordered. The Calendar is
amended and, as amended, is adopted.
Are there any reports of committees?
Are there any motions or resolutions? The
Chair hears none.
Let me call your attention to the fact
that the Calendar may be a little mis-
leading in that it schedules items according
to the committee recommendation number,
and yet in the reports of the Committee on
Style and Drafting, some of the parts of
some of the committee recommendations
are included elsewhere than in the position
in which they appear on the agenda.
For instance, the first two items are
Committee Recommendation R&P-1 and
Committee Recommendation R&P-2. One or
more sections of these recommendations are
covered by subsequent reports of the Com-
mittee on Style. Therefore, what we will do
in taking up these items is to take the
portions of each of the committee recom-
mendations covered by a particular report
of the Committee on Style.
For instance, the first two items we will
take up together and will consider the
items covered by Report S&D-9. We will
not consider the parts of the R&P-1 and 2
which are, for instance, in S&D-17. There-
fore, you should have before you the brown
report, Committee on Style No. S&D-9.
The Chair recognizes Delegate Penni-
man, Chairman of the Committee on Style.
Delegate Penniman.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: Mr. Chair-
man, in addition to the reports on por-
tions of Report 21 and 22 there was also,
if you remember, a separate Report No. 31
from the Committee of the Whole that in-
cluded the two items that were postponed
briefly from the discussion when we talked
about R&P-1, so that grand jury indictment
and imprisonment for debt were actually in
Report No. 31 of the Committee of the
Whole.
THE PRESIDENT: You mean they
should be included in the references on the
first page of the Style Committee's report?
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: That is cor-
rect.
THE PRESIDENT: Where it refers to
Committee of the Whole Report No. 21 and
22 you add 31 and 32?
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: Just 31.
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THE PRESIDENT: Add 31. Thank you.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: Before I be-
gin this morning, I might give you just a
bit of folk wisdom that I picked up last
night. I inadvertently went into a bar after
we closed, and found that the bartender
had just turned thirty-seven. One of his
customers was there celebrating the bar-
tender's birthday, and they were discussing
the fact that after thirty-six a man really
has run down, he has no future, it is all
behind him, and things are pretty bleak
from that stage on.
Then they noted, at the closing of it,
that there are certain characteristics one
could discover. One was that no man can
work more than six hours per day after
he has reached the age of 36 and, further-
more, every man needs an absolute mini-
mum of eight hours sleep after he has
passed the age of 36.
Since this does not apply to a number of
you who have not reached the age of thirty-
six, I give it to you for future reference.
(Laughter.)
We made in the Personal Rights and the
Preamble proposals, relatively few changes,
again. We made no changes in the Pre-
amble save to capitalize the "S" in "State"
and the "C" in "Constitution", and take out
one semi-colon.
"Freedom of expression" remains as it
was.
1.02 remains as it came to us.
In section 1.03 on due process, we re-
moved a comma and a semi-colon, and we
changed slightly the title to remove the
words "right to", which we have done con-
sistently, and merely used the topic itself.
Moving to the "Fair Treatment in In-
vestigations", we shortened it slightly, but
it came out almost the same as it came
from the Committee of the Whole, and as
it had been reported to the Committee of
the Whole in R&P-2.
In section 1.05, in addition to shortening
the title, we did make a couple of changes
by adding the words "and to be secure
against unreasonable interceptions of their
communications", to indicate that the Com-
mittee's understanding was that it might
be broader than "persons, houses, papers
and effects" in the case of interceptions of
communications.
We broke the long sentence into two and
spoke about "no warrants shall be issued"
rather than the older wording "shall issue".
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