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one other than the lead horse may get the
majority of votes cast in an election and
that the innumerable offices down the line
might not find a single candidate elected
under those particular circumstances.
I say we should not treat issues any dif-
ferently from the way we treat people. I
suggest when people take the time and
effort to make a conscientious decision on
a subject matter such as the question of
calling a constitutional conventon, that the
majority of those who voted on that ques-
tion, that their decision and their will
should be abided by, and not use a frus-
trating device such as I referred to that
was done in 1950, when almost by 2.5 to 1,
as I said before, the people in the State
who voted on the question of a constitu-
tional convention called for it, and the
General Assembly decided in its wisdom
that it would not call it, because not a
majority of those who voted for the Con-
stitutional Convention constituted a ma-
jority of those voting in the general elec-
tion itself.
I submit to you that if we handled our
bond issues that way, that if we handled
any of our other issues in this fashion we
would find government would be paralyzed
and stultified.
I respectfully request that this amend-
ment be rejected.
DELEGATE JAMES (presiding): Does
any other delegate wish to be heard on
this subject?
(There was no response.)
Does anybody move the previous ques-
tion?
(Whereupon, the previous question was
moved.)
DELEGATE JAMES (presiding): Dele-
gate Winslow moves the previous question.
All those in favor, say Aye; contrary,
No. The Ayes have it. It is so ordered.
The question arises on Amendment No.
10 to Committee Recommendations GP-7,
GP-8, GP-9, GP-12, R&P-1 and LB-3 as
amended by Style Committee Report S&D-
17.
The Clerk will ring the quorum bell.
Delegates will record their vote.
Delegate Boileau?
DELEGATE BOILEAU: No.
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DELEGATE JAMES (presiding): Dele-
gate Boileau votes No.
Have all member recorded their vote?
The clerk will record the vote.
There being 63, including Delegate
Boileau, G3 in the negative, 19 in the af-
firmative, the amendment fails for want of
a majority.
Delegate Gallagher, do you wish to offer
vour amendment marked H as Amendment
No. 11?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Yes, sir.
DELEGATE JAMES (presiding): The
pages will distribute Amendment H.
Delegate Stern.
DELEGATE STERN: Personal priv-
ilege, Mr. President.
DELEGATE JAMES (presiding) : State
the privilege.
DELEGATE STERN: I would like to
introduce Joe Raymond, Assistant State's
Attorney from Baltimore, and President
of the Young Democratic Club of Mary-
land.
DELEGATE JAMES (presiding): We
are very happy to welcome Mr. Raymond.
(Applause.)
The Chair failed to note that this amend-
ment is really in the unnumbered section,
Continuity of Government During Emer-
gencies.
Before raising this particular issue, the
question is raised as to whether there is
any other amendment, other than Delegate
Marion's, to section 10.03.
Delegate Marion, we will come back to
your section 10.03 when the necessary
copies arrive. Somebody at the print shop
will pick up the amendment very shortly.
In order to handle all, the only other
amendments the Chair has over the desk,
we will temporarily pass over 10.03 and
go to Delegate Gallagher's amendment, and
will come back to 10.04 and 10.03.
The Clerk will read the amendment to
the unnumbered section, entitled "Con-
tinuity of Government During Emergen-
cies", offered by Delegates Gallagher and
Sollins, which will be Amendment No. 11,
now marked "Pl".
READING CLERK: Amendment No. 11
to Committee Recommendations GP-7,
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