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DELEGATE SHERBOW: Is it in order
for me to move now for a reconsideration
of this vote?
THE PRESIDENT: It is of course in
order to move it. Under the rule, unless the
rules are suspended, the motion would have
to lie over for two session days. You may
move it.
DELEGATE SHERBOW: Mr. Chairman,
I move reconsideration and simultaneously
move a suspension of the rules which would
interfere with an immediate consideration
of the motion to reconsider.
I would like to state my reasons, if I
may.
I think if you have sixty-eight votes and
need the seventy-two, I would most earn-
estly ask that you reconsider and cast your
vote favorably.
THE PRESIDENT: For what purpose
does Delegate Kosakowski rise?
DELEGATE KOSAKOWSKI: A point
of parliamentary inquiry.
THE PRESIDENT: State the inquiry.
DELEGATE KOSAKOWSKI: Am I in
order to speak in opposition to the motion
just made?
THE PRESIDENT: The motion to sus-
pend rules is not debatable. The person
making the motion can state the reason for
the motion, but that is all.
The question arises on the motion to re-
consider the vote by which section 6.17
failed of adoption and to suspend all inter-
fering rules to permit immediate considera-
tion of that motion.
The Chair will submit the motion sepa-
rately. The first motion will be the motion
to suspend the rules. The motion to suspend
the rules is adopted.
If the motion to suspend the rules is
adopted, we will then proceed to an imme-
diate consideration of the other motion. If
the motion to suspend the rules is not
adopted, then the motion to reconsider will
lay over under the rules.
For what purposes does Delegate John-
son rise?
DELEGATE JOHNSON: Parliamentary
inquiry.
THE PRESIDENT: State the inquiry.
DELEGATE JOHNSON: What affirma-
tive vote is required on each question sub-
mitted?
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THE PRESIDENT: On the motion to
suspend the rules, an absolute majority,
seventy-two votes is required.
On the motion to reconsider, the same
vote will be required so that the seventy-
two votes is required on each motion.
Are you ready for the question?
(Call for the question.)
The question arises, first, on the motion
to suspend all interfering rules so as to
permit immediate consideration of the mo-
tion to reconsider the vote by which section
6.17 failed of adoption.
A vote Aye is a vote to suspend the rules,
a vote No is a vote against.
Cast your vote.
The Clerk will record the vote.
There being 89 votes in the affirmative
and 33 in the negative, the interfering
rules are suspended.
THE PRESIDENT: The question now
arises on the motion to reconsider the vote
by which section 6.17 failed of adoption.
Is there any discussion? This motion is
debatable.
Delegate James.
DELEGATE JAMES: I want to argue
on the motion to reconsider.
THE PRESIDENT: You may proceed.
DELEGATE JAMES: Mr. President and
members of the Convention : You may not
consider that this is a particularly im-
portant vote, but I tell you that it is very
conceivable that the adoption of the Consti-
tution is at stake, there are many people in
the State of Maryland who do not want to
see Maryland plunged into a gambling
fiesta or a future in which Maryland will
become an eastern Las Vegas. This is
definitely in the offing. In the last session
I believe a lottery bill passed the House of
Delegates. Pressures on the General As-
sembly are enormous. Since I have been
in the General Assembly each session we
have to resist the pressure of gambling and
gamblers.
There are many people in this State who
will oppose this Constitution if they feel
that gambling will be licensed by the State,
by the local government, and that the good
name of Maryland will be ruined. We have
gone through one battle trying to get rid
of slot machines. You do not know what
it is like in the General Assembly to have
these people on your necks all the time,
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