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The Sergeant-at-Arms will please see if
there are any delegates in the corridor or
in the lounge and have them come to the
chamber.
The question arises on the motion to
make the motion to reconsider the vote by
which Amendment No. 10 was adopted, and
the further consideration of Section 3.14, a
special order for Tuesday, January 2, 1968,
following: the other special orders. A vote
Aye is a vote in favor of the motion, a
vote No is a vote against.
So that there will be no misunderstand-
ing, this is not a vote on the reconsidera-
tion. The motion for reconsideration has
already been made. You are now voting only
on the issue of postponement. If the motion
fails, the motion for reconsideration is be-
fore you.
A vote Aye is a vote in favor of the post-
ponement. A vote No a vote against.
Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: Would it not be
possible to limit debate on the motion for
reconsideration at the same time?
THE PRESIDENT: It would, but I
would suggest that you leave that to the
Committee on Calendar. They have done a
pretty good job thus far in limiting debate,
and I think would be under an added im-
petus for Tuesday.
Delegate Morgan.
DELEGATE MORGAN: Thank you, Mr.
President.
THE PRESIDENT: Are you ready for
the question? A vote Aye is a vote in favor
of the motion. A vote No is a vote against.
This is only the postponement, Aye is for
postponement, No against postponement.
Cast your votes.
Has every delegate voted? Does any
delegate desire to change his vote?
The Clerk will record the vote.
There being 75 votes in the affirmative
and 32 votes in the negative, the motion is
carried. The motion for reconsideration of
amendment 10, and further consideration
of section 3.14 is made a special order for
Tuesday, January 2, 1968.
Are there any further amendments to
section 3.15? 3.16? 3.17? 3.18? 3.19?
Delegate Rybczynski, do you desire to of-
fer your amendment H?
DELEGATE RYBCZYNSKI: Yes, sir.
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THE PRESIDENT: Pages will please
distribute Amendment H.
While that is being distributed, may I
make this announcement. As all of you are
aware, the system of high school students
as pages has worked very, very well. The
Convention has received numerous inquir-
ies about it including detailed inquiries
from the legislative leaders of the present
legislature.
One of the reasons this has worked so
well is that we have been able to provide
housing accommodations for all the boys
and girls, the girls in private homes, the
boys at St. John's College.
A crisis developed because St. John's Col-
lege is having a holiday. We have ten boys.
St. John's is closed next week. If any of
you delegates have living quarters here
in Annapolis which are commodious enough
to accommodate one or more boys, will you
please today let Mrs. Marx know. We would
be very grateful if you could do this, or if
you know of any other accommodations.
I make this plea to you because, as we
enter the last phase I am most anxious
that the excellent record we have for pages
and the accommodations does not slip off,
and that we maintain it.
This will be Amendment No. 11. The
Clerk will read the amendment.
READING CLERK: Amendment No. 11,
to Committee Recommendation LB-1, LB-2,
LB-3, as amended by Report S&D-16, by
Delegate Rybczynski and co-sponsors.
On page 7 section 31.9, Journals, in line
17 strike out the following: ", and for a
transcript of its debate."
THE PRESIDENT: The amendment is
submitted by Delegate Rybczynski, sec-
onded by the co-sponsors.
The Chair is going to depart from its
invariable practice, as I think I owe this
to the Convention.
We have in the Convention acquired
considerable experience with respect to
transcripts. I think you ought to have the
benefit of that experience before you, and
I think I ought to make a statement. But
I think I ought to do it before there is any
debate so that there would be ample oppor-
tunity for both sides to criticize the
Chair's statement, or to contradict it, or to
take any other action in connection with it.
As I have indicated from time to time
during the course of the Convention, we
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