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THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Price.
DELEGATE PRICE: I would like to
welcome my wife who has been here sev-
eral times and three of our four children
who are also latecomers in the gallery, my
son, Benjamin, and two of our daughters,
Jennifer and Heather.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Kirkland.
DELEGATE KIRKLAND: Mr. Presi-
dent, for some time now, whether you
realize it or not, some of us have been
looking for Rover White. There has been
quite a bit of communication over in this
corner regarding Ginger Dorsey and not
too long ago, in fact, during the New
Year's holidays, I had the privilege of
being in the home of one of my constitu-
ents, and I found something which I am
sure that Judge Dorsey will have use for
and this is Rover Pink, not Rover Black.
(A toy pink poodle was presented to
Delegate Dorsey.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Dorsey.
DELEGATE DORSEY: On behalf of
Ginger, I want to thank my good friend
from Prince George's County for this gift.
I shall present it to her in a few hours. I
am sure Ginger will not only remember
him, but will always remember this Con-
vention.
(Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Schloeder.
DELEGATE SCHLOEDER: Will Judge
Dorsey yield for a question?
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Dorsey?
DELEGATE SCHLOEDER: By any
chance, sir, would you give Ginger your
vote on this Convention?
(Lany liter and applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Dorsey.
DELEGATE DORSEY: In reply, I
might say that I feel that Ginger will cast
her vote with the majority of the people
of Saint Mary's County, whatever that
might be.
(Laughter.)
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Kiefer.
DELEGATE KIEFER: Mr. President,
we have recognized a number of people,
These are pets of Delegates White and
Dorsey.
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but I do not think we should let this oc-
casion pass without recognizing whom we
might very well call the gracious first
lady of this Convention, Mrs. Eney.
(The Convention arose and applauded.)
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you very
much.
Delegate Scanlan.
DELEGATE SCANLAN: I am sorry to
report this, Mr. President, but there has
been a complaint from some of the tavern
keepers in Annapolis. They are very un-
happy about the happy hour. They are ac-
customed to having it begin at five and not
at half past one and they want you to know
that.
THE PRESIDENT: The Chair has a
number of important announcements to
make. They will have an effect on the pro-
ceedings this afternoon. I will ask you to
bear with me and pay very, very close
attention. This way we can proceed in an
orderly manner without anyone being
caught unawares or being disappointed.
Let me say at the outset that the fact
that you have on your desk and had avail-
able here at nine o'clock this morning the
third reading copy of the final text of the
constitution and the schedule of transi-
tional provisions was due entirely to the
fact that not only did the print shop work
around the clock, but that many members
of the staff, the secretarial and profes-
sional staff, left the State House at 5:00
A.M. this morning. Under this kind of pres-
sure and not withstanding the tremendous
efforts which have been made to insure the
accuracy of the copy which has been placed
before you, it is utterly impossible to give
the absolute assurance which we all want
that there has not been some typographical
error or some slight change overlooked or
something included that should not be. Even
as this Convention sits to take its final
votes, members of the professional staff
are again repeating the process of check-
ing, double checking, really quadruple
checking, because we are trying to check
against four different sources to make sure
that we have picked up, the staff, has
picked up all of the action of the Con-
vention.
In addition, we have several groups of
lawyers entirely independent of the Con-
vention to whom I sent copies last evening
of the complete text who are reading
through it for a different kind of error
and that is not a typographical error or a
failure to pick up amendments, but the
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