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for his contribution to the work of this
Convention.
Resolution No. 51, by the President and
Delegates Tawes, J. Clark and James.
A RESOLUTION expressing the grati-
tude of the Convention to Miss Joyce Mc-
Neil, Chief of the Secretarial Pool, and
her staff.
THE PRESIDENT: The Chair recog-
nizes Delegate Powers to make a motion
with respect to Resolutions 31 to 43 and
46 to 51.
DELEGATE POWERS: I move that all
interfering rules be suspended so we may
consider Resolutions 46 through 51 and 31
to 43.
THE PRESIDENT: Is there a second?
(Whereupon, the motion was duly sec-
onded.)
THE PRESIDENT: It requires a roll
call vote.
Is there any discussion?
A vote Aye is a vote in favor of sus-
pending any interfering rules; a vote No
is a vote against.
Cast your vote.
Has every delegate voted? Does any
delegate desire to change his vote?
The Clerk will record the vote.
There being 116 votes in the affirmative
and 0 in the negative, the motion carries.
The interfering rules are suspended.
The question now arises on the adoption
of Resolutions 30 through 43 inclusive, and
46 through 51 inclusive.
Is there any discussion?
(There was no response.)
Are you ready for the question?
(Call for the question.)
All those in favor, signify by saying
Aye; contrary, No. The Ayes have it. It is
so ordered. Resolutions 30 to 43 inclusive
and 46 to 51 inclusive are adopted.
(Applause.)
DELEGATE GRANT: Not all the reso-
lutions have yet been distributed. Will they
be distributed before the session ends?
THE PRESIDENT: They should have
been distributed. They are in the process.
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They are all printed. Resolutions No. 36,
40 and 41 are not yet distributed. They
will be in the next few minutes.
Delegate Clagett.
DELEGATE CLAGETT: Point of per-
sonal privilege.
Throughout the four months that we
have been present here and prior to that
time I have come to know the Honorable
Godfrey Child, Judge and Delegate. I only
rise to make a matter of record a con-
tribution made by him of such great pro-
portion. As the freezes wafted from the
right side of the chamber in this direction
during the early days of our Convention
sessions, they brought with them a quality
of smoke which this side could not but
appreciate, and ever increasingly more so.
It was thirty years ago that I used to
smoke a pipe. I gave it up because it was
such a nuisance.
As I sat here and began to appreciate
that our occupation was going to be a
sedentary one, the desire came back again.
I turned to Judge Child and said, "What
is that mixture you are smoking?" The
reply was, with great "laconicness", if that
is the correct word: "It is my own mix-
ture." And that is where the matter rested
about three or four days.
We became more friendly and I said,
"Judge, can I have a little bit of tobacco?"
Pie gave me one pipe full, and that is
where the matter rested for another four
or five days. Then there came a time when
the judge came over and said, "This is my
personal mixture." That is where it rested
for the week. Then he came over and said,
"This is the way the mixture has been ar-
rived at over my thirty years of smoking
it, but I give it to you, and I give it to you
alone."
If this were only between me and Judge
Child himself I would not feel it of the
stature to rise and state it of record. But
as I began to smoke his mixture, not
knowing what it was, it began to affect
Delegate Carter (Hickman) in back of me,
and there came a day when he leaned
forward and said, "What is that tobacco
you are smoking?" I said, "It is Judge
Child's, and he told me I could not tell
anyone else what it was, and do not know,
frankly." That is the way the matter rested
for the first month of our being together
here.
Then Judge Child came over — and by
this time we had debated, and there had
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