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would be a model and that we could vastly
improve upon its present text of primarily
proposals, and certain other committee
actions.
In order to get the journal to you in
time we could not print on both sides. Un-
less we shut down both machines from all
other operations, printing on both sides
about quadruples the time of producing the
journal.
This is just the first installment. I think
this is 169 pages out of 1,000, the rest of it
I am hoping will be on your desk tomorrow.
I am not suggesting that any delegate read
the entire journal. You will see the style
of it.
I intend to have presented to the Conven-
tion before we adjourn sine die a resolution
approving the journal, adopting it as the
official journal. It is based upon the records
of the journal clerk, of course, but we will
authorize the Secretary of the Convention
to make editorial changes of the character
I have indicated.
This resolution must be carefully worked
out. I want you to have the journal so
that you will see its style. It is a mammoth
job because, of course, every roll call must
be included. This means endless repetition
of typing names. This involved an enor-
mous amount of checking, and is quite a
detailed job. Normally in the legislature the
journal is published eight to nine months
after the session is adjourned. I think we
can do much better than that, but we do
need an approval.
The Chair also has to make another
announcement, with, perhaps, a little bit
of red face, I suppose. I indicated previ-
ously our schedule is such that we must
remain in session day and night without
recess other than for meals and sleeping
until we get a final vote.
On the other hand, the President and his
wife are very desirous of having the entire
Convention and others connected with it as
their guests at the reception to which all of
you have received invitations on Friday. It
it utterly impossible to make different ar-
rangements with the hotel. We have no
other place where we have sufficient room.
It cannot be held off. I, therefore, shall
have to ask your indulgence that if we
have not reached a final vote by shortly
before 6:00 p.m. on Friday evening, that
we would nevertheless recess at about that
hour so that you can be guests of my wife
and myself that evening, and I would not
anticipate that we would be returning for
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further discussions that evening, but in-
stead would return the next morning.
I also want to take this opportunity to
correct what may be a serious misappre-
hension concerning a statement I made in
reply to a question I think from Delegate
Macdonald, but I am not sure, as to amend-
ments on third reading. I was asked whether
amendments on third reading would be in
order. I said, unfortunately, yes. I do not
mean th'at it was unfortunate that I
answered that way, because that is the
answer. However, that had been construed
by some delegates to mean that any and
all kinds of amendments would be in order.
This is very definitely not the case. The
only amendments which would be in order
on third reading would be amendments
which would be germane to the matter be-
fore you on third reading. It would not be
possible, for instance, I have been asked
this precise question, to offer an amend-
ment that would put in a new section or
even a section that had been reconsidered
or considered by some committee, or had
been not accepted on second reading. This
is because any amendments, or any new
matter of that character under the Conven-
tion rules would have to come in as pro-
posals and run the whole gamut of pro-
cedure prescribed by rules, that is, be re-
ferred to committee, and go through first,
second and third readings.
Therefore, while amendments on third
reading are in order, this is a very narrow
field. I serve warning that the Chair, unless
overruled by the Convention, would intend
to apply the rule as to whether an amend-
ment was germane with strictness rather
than with great latitude. So that the time
to make amendments to h'ave them consid-
ered is on second reading, or now. It is
not on third reading.
I did not want anybody to be under the
apprehension that some entirely new matter
could be considered for the first time on
third reading.
Are there any announcements necessary
to be made by the committee chairmen?
Are there any announcements by other
delegates?
Any delegates present now not present
on earlier roll call may indicate their pres-
ence on supplemental roll call.
Delegate Boileau is present.
The Clerk will record the supplemental
roll call.
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