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should be made for the information of all
delegates, had more influence than intended,
because of the absence of so many dele-
gates. I personally would feel more com-
fortable if the further consideration of
section 3.19 were held over until Tuesday,
but we concluded the rest of this article.
Now, with that statement, I will leave it
to you.
DELEGATE RYBCZYNSKI: Mr. Presi-
dent, I will withdraw, but I want the Chair
to know that the people back here are
really getting angry about people leaving,
walking out —
THE PRESIDENT: It is troubling the
Chair, too, and I would like, as soon as we
can, to conclude. I have been watching the
votes, and as I see the total going down
and down, it is very disturbing. I realize,
on the other hand, that the Convention has
been working awfully hard this week, and
no one anticipated a session today, much
less a late session.
Thank you for withdrawing the motion.
Delegate Gallagher, the Chair would rec-
ognize you and request that you ask for a
division as to section 3.19. The Chair would
divide the question and then recognize you
to move that further consideration be de-
ferred until Tuesday.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Chair-
man, I move for a division of section 3.19.
THE PRESIDENT: The Chair rules it
is divisible. It is divided.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Chair-
man, I move that consideration be post-
poned until next Tuesday at a time stated.
THE PRESIDENT: Is there a second?
(The motion, was duly seconded.)
THE PRESIDENT: It is regularly
moved and seconded that further consid-
eration of section 3.19 as divided be made
a special order for a time to be stated on
Tuesday, January 2, 1968. All in favor
signify by saying Aye; contrary No. The
Ayes have it. It is so ordered.
Thank you very much.
The Chair would propose to finish the
consideration of this committee recommen-
dation, and then adjourn so that we do not
take up the other items on the agenda.
Are there any further amendments to
section 3.20? Further amendment to section
3.21? 3.22?
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Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Chair-
man, just a brief amendment. Amendment
W for Worry.
THE PRESIDENT: Let me state, so the
record will be clear, and before I forget it,
and I am sorry to interrupt you, Delegate
Gallagher, Delegate Beatrice Miller had
made a motion to reconsider the vote by
which Amendment No. 11 was adopted.
However, Delegate Rybczynski has a pend-
ing motion to delete the words in lines 19
and 20 so that when we reconsider, the
matter pending is Delegate Rybczynski's
motion and, thereafter, Delegate Miller's
motion.
Pages will please distribute amendment
W. This will be Amendment No. 12.
The Clerk will read the amendment.
READING CLERK: Amendment No. 12
to Committee Recommendation LB-1, LB-2
and LB-3 as amended by Report S&D-16,
by Delegate Gallagher.
On page 8, section 3.22, Congressional
Redistricting Procedure, in line 29 after the
word "shall" strike out the remainder of
the line and all of line 30 and insert in lieu
thereof the following: "enact either the
commission plan or a congressional redis-
tricting plan of its own."
THE PRESIDENT: The amendment is
submitted by Delegate Gallagher.
Is there a second?
(The motion was duly seconded.)
THE PRESIDENT: The amendment
having been seconded, the Chair recognizes
Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Presi-
dent, ladies and gentlemen. We are asking
that we return to the original language of
the Committee to provide that the General
Assembly shall enact either the commission
plan, which would have been submitted to
it by the redistricting commission, or a
congressional redistricting plan of its own.
We feel that this is preferable to the lan-
guage suggested which provided that the
General Assembly shall prescribe by law a
congressional redistricting plan or the com-
mission plan.
As you may have remembered from prior
debate, we stated that it was necessary, we
believed, under the federal Constitution, to
have the General Assembly actually enact
by law a plan of its own. We recognized
that there was a possibility that the com-
mission plan might be accepted, but it
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