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Now that much of the time consuming
labor and strenuous effort has been ex-
pended in the making of a new constitu-
tion, all that remains is the fullness of
time for its completion by delegates and
adoption by the people.
Help us to feel the significance of this
high moment caught up in the history of
the Free State that resolved to have a new
constitution and as this constitution pro-
vides for the great and the small, help us
to not forget that such were the contribu-
tions which helped to make it possible.
May it have the latitude to include all
and may it have the greatness to exclude
that which is evil and as it becomes our
mode of living in this state upon adoption,
help us to remember Him whose teaching
and life are always to be revered and set
forth as the perfect example among man-
kind. In Jesus Christ, our Lord, for it is
in His name that we ask this blessing upon
this Convention in its convening hours.
Amen.
THE PRESIDENT: Roll call.
(Laughter.)
THE PRESIDENT: Has every delegate
properly answered roll call?
(Laughter.)
THE PRESIDENT: The Clerk will re-
cord the roll call.
There being a quorum present, the Con-
vention is in session.
The Chair recognizes Delegate Powers,
Chairman of the Committee on Calendar
and Agenda.
DELEGATE POWERS: Mr. President,
I move the adoption of today's calendar.
THE PRESIDENT: Is there a second?
DELEGATE JAMES: Second.
(Whereupon, the motion was duly sec-
onded.)
THE PRESIDENT: All those in favor
signify by saying Aye; contrary, No. The
Ayes have it. The calendar is adopted.
The Chair has an announcement to be
made on behalf of some of the delegates.
The Clerk will read the announcement.
READING CLERK: An announcement
by Delegates Hickman, Adkins, Boyer,
Child, Fox, Hostetter, E. T. Miller, Rollins,
M. H. Smith, Tawes, on behalf of the
Eastern Shore Delegates and by Delegate
Rush,
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Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen of
the Convention: it is with deep regret
that we announce the death on January
4, 1968, of Frederick C. Malkus, father of
Delegate Frederick C. Malkus, Jr. Mr.
Malkus was born in Baltimore and for
many years was a bookkeeper with a meat
packing firm in Baltimore. Mr. Malkus was
seventy-six years old at his death, and is
survived by his widow, Mrs. Caroline
Malkus, a brother, George J. Malkus, and
three grandchildren.
THE PRESIDENT: Are there any re-
ports of Committees, Mr. Clerk?
Committee Report LB-1. The Clerk will
read the report.
READING CLERK: Committee Report
No. LB-1 by the Committee on the Legisla-
tive Branch, Francis X. Gallagher, Chair-
man : A report on the rejection by the
Committee on the Legislative Branch of
Delegate Proposals No. 20, 192, 228, 323,
420, 425, and 437. The subject matter of
these proposals was not covered by any of
the three major Committee Recommenda-
tions of the Committee on the Legislative
Branch LB-1, LB-2, and LB-3.
THE PRESIDENT: The report will be
referred to the Committee on Calendar and
Agenda. Are there any other reports, Mr.
Clerk?
We will, therefore, proceed to the next
item on the calendar, the third and final
reading of the proposed Constitution.
Delegate Clagett.
DELEGATE CLAGETT: I rise to a
point of personal privilege, Mr. President.
THE PRESIDENT: State the privilege.
DELEGATE CLAGETT: In the gallery,
over your head, Mr. President, are two
very distinguished people who happen to
be the parents of a very distinguished dele-
gate to this Assembly, the delegate from
the third district of Baltimore City, Anne
D. Hopkins. Those in the gallery are Mr.
and Mrs. Theodore Rognald Dankmeyer,
and we welcome them.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Cardin.
DELEGATE CARDIN: Mr. President,
I rise to the most pleasurable of personal
privileges. I should like to announce in the
gallery the presence of my indulgent and
patient husband, Jerry, three of our chil-
dren, Eileen, Nina, and Sanford, and my
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Shoubin,
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