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(There was no response.)
The Clerk will record the vote.
There being 84 votes in the affirmative
and 2 in the negative, the motion is
carried and the amendment is adopted.
Are there any further amendments with
respect to the schedule of transitional
provisions?
Delegate Cardin.
DELEGATE CARDIN: Mr. Chairman,
I have no amendment to offer. However,
I wish to clarify something I questioned
yesterday in the informal questioning
period. In section 24, page 26, line 4, line
12, and line 15, the terminology "spouse"
is used. In line 4 it is used "the spouse".
In 12 and 15 it is "his spouse". I would
like to make certain for the record that
in the event the judge is of feminine
gender it would also mean "her spouse".
THE CHAIRMAN: Which page is this?
DELEGATE CARDIN: Page 26.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Penniman
is not here. I hesitate to speak for the
Committee on Style, but it seems to me
that there was a statement made earlier
that the pronoun "his" means his or hers,
as appropriate.
Delegate Hardwicke, can you make a
statement about that?
DELEGATE HARDWICKE: It was our
intention that the phrase "his spouse"
should embrace the phrase "her spouse",
and by that was meant to include either
gender.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Cardin.
DELEGATE CARDIN: Thank you.
I hope that wherever in the constitution
the masculine gender is used it will be con-
sidered to embrace all genders. I refer
especially to Article I.
THE CHAIRMAN: That is true as to
legislation. I doubt that Article I is ap-
plicable by its own force, but I think the
rule you have stated was stated by the
Chairman of the Committee on Style. It is
certainly the Chair's understanding as the
proper application throughout the Consti-
tution.
Delegate Churchill Murray.
DELEGATE E. C. MURRAY: I have a
letter from the President of Zonta Inter-
national Club objecting that we have not
included the female sex.
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Am I not correct in telling her that
wherever the word "person" or, for that
matter "him" is used, it is intended to
refer to both sexes?
THE CHAIRMAN: That is correct.
Are there any further amendments to —
Delegate Rybczynski.
DELEGATE RYBCZYNSKI: I would
appreciate your calling up Amendment Z,
as in "zebra".
THE CHAIRMAN: Amendment Z. The
pages will please distribute it.
Delegate Koss.
DELEGATE KOSS: May I impose on
the Convention, only because there seems
to be a hiatus, and following Delegate
Murray's remarks, tell about the letter I
received? I cannot resist a temptation to
relate a story which has always been one
of my favorites.
In 1961 I was privileged to be a member
of a group that was invited to the White
House to be greeted by President Kennedy.
He told us of the days when suffragettes
were picketing the White House for recog-
nition of their rights, and when the police
came and the leader was hauled off, her
last words to the girls who were with her
were: "Don't worry, girls. Pray to the
Lord. She will take care of us."
(Laughter.)
THE CHAIRMAN: This will be Amend-
ment No. 15.
Delegate Harry Taylor.
DELEGATE H. TAYLOR: A point of
personal privilege, Mr. Chairman.
THE CHAIRMAN: State your privilege.
DELEGATE H. TAYLOR: Robert J.
Martineau, our Secretary, has been most
efficient and most accommodating to every-
body in the Convention, and this is just an
example of how far this gentleman has
gone to do whatever any delegate has re-
quested.
This is a note, and it is dated January 4,
to Mr. John W. White, Delegate:
"Sir:
"You ask if I could reverse the picture
film to show 135 black delegates and five
white. Now, I ask you, sir, would that not
have a negative effect on the Convention?
And would you not have to change your
name to Delegate Black.
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