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DELEGATE JOHNSON: Parliamentary
inquiry.
THE PRESIDENT: State the inquiry.
DELEGATE JOHNSON: Would you be
kind enough to recite for us Amendment
No. 6, the amendment that we are about
to vote on with respect to reconsideration.
It has been amended. Would I be correct in
assuming that the motion that is before
us is the amendment as amended, or as the
amendments have been accepted to it origi-
nally, and not when it was originally re-
considered?
THE PRESIDENT: Amendment No. 6
which is the subject of reconsideration
is in the printed form except for the fact
that in line 7 after the word ''records", the
words "as defined by law" were inserted.
For what purpose does Delegate Della
rise ?
DELEGATE DELLA: Mr. President, I
believe we are in Convention ?
THE PRESIDENT: That is correct.
DELEGATE DELLA: And under Rule
54 no question may be reconsidered more
than once except if the reconsideration is
moved by direction of the Committee on
Style, Drafting and Arrangement, or by the
convention committee which reported on the
matter to be reconsidered, or if moved
after submission of a petition signed by
fifteen delegates to the Convention. I think
this reconsideration is not by fifteen
members.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Della, as
the Chair announced earlier, I do not re-
member whether it was today or yester-
day in response to a query from Delegate
Johnson, as the Chair interprets Rule 54
it is applicable as stated in paragraph A of
the Rule to a reconsideration of any ques-
tion finally adopted or rejected by the Con-
vention and is not applicable to reconsider-
ation of action on amendments or secondary
questions. It would be applicable, for in-
stance, on a motion to reconsider the vote
by which a Committee Recommendation
was finally adopted or rejected on second
reading. It is not applicable to the prelim-
inary consideration of amendments and that
is the practice that we have been following.
For what purpose does Delegate Ment-
zer rise ?
DELEGATE MENTZER: Point of parlia-
mentary inquiry.
THE PRESIDENT: State the inquiry.
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DELEGATE MENTZER: Has the Con-
vention acted on section 1.12, imprison-
ment for debt?
THE PRESIDENT: If you mean by ac-
tion, has it considered amendments ? Yes.
If you mean by action has it finally
adopted it, it has not, because that would
come on the vote for the adoption of the
Committee Recommendation. I am not sure
which you meant. We have considered
amendments.
DELEGATE MENTZER: I thought we
were to have it printed before us before we
took some final action on that particular
section. Am I wrong?
THE PRESIDENT: I think it has been
distributed.
Amendment No. 9, which was the amend-
ment marked AA, has been distributed.
For what purpose does Delegate Dukes
rise?
DELEGATE DUKES: If appropriate,
Mr. President, I would like to move to lay
the previous motion and all previous ques-
tions on the table.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Dukes, your
motion would be in order. If it is adopted,
it would lay on the table completely all ac-
tion with respect to Committee Recom-
mendation S&D-9. Is that your intention?
DELEGATE DUKES: Is it the Chair's
ruling it cannot be made with respect to
a specific motion on the floor at this time?
THE PRESIDENT: It cannot be made
with respect to the motion to move the pre-
vious motion alone. That is true. It would
carry with it all the questions covered.
DELEGATE DUKES: If the Chair so
rules, I would appeal that ruling of the
Chair.
THE PRESIDENT: Well, you would have
to indicate to what you intend the motion
to apply.
DELEGATE DUKES: I intend the mo-
tion to apply only to Delegate Bennett's
motion which would move all previous ques-
tions. I wish to lay that motion on the table.
Your ruling is that I cannot do that, that
I can only lay the entire matter before us
on the table —
THE PRESIDENT: No, that is not my
ruling. No, my ruling is that you can make
the ruling, but that the effect of the motion
is to lay on the table everything embraced
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