committee recommendation. It would then
be open for further amendment.
DELEGATE WHEATLEY: Would this
then be the procedure if the committee
wished to amend in effect creating a few
report?
THE PRESIDENT: I do not think we
could indicate any hard and fast rule to be
followed. Obviously if an amendment was
made or series of amendments by a com-
mittee that were so extensive as to consti-
tute a new report that would require study,
we would have to allow time for study.
In this particular instance, the commit-
tee recommendation is one sentence and the
proposed amendment is simply a substitute
for that one sentence. I do not think we
need to delay for another three days to
permit consideration. I would not say that
that rule would be followed rigidly in every
instance.
DELEGATE WHEATLEY: Mr. Presi-
dent, a further question of parliamentary
inquiry. Several days ago I raised a ques-
tion as to whether the Rules Committee had
considered the question of re-referral and
I see from the report today they had not
dealt with that. The reason for my question
is it seems much more expeditious if this
occasion would arise that the committee
could withdraw and substitute a report
rather than going through the fiction of
amending.
I was just wondering now, is there a
procedure other than by suspension of the
rules to allow a committee to take back a
report?
THE PRESIDENT: There is not. This
matter was considered at length by the
Rules Committee. The adoption of any such
procedure would seriously disrupt the or-
derly procedure of the Convention and could
cause interminable delay.
DELEGATE WHEATLEY: Thank you.
THE PRESIDENT: Any further ques-
tions? One other matter of practice that 1
want to announce. Delegate Malkus asked
me yesterday if it would not be possible to
work out a procedure under which a com-
mittee recommendation after its considera-
tion by the Committee of the Whole and
while it was being considered by the Com-
mittee on Style could be reprinted in its
amended form and made available to
delegates.
This indeed can be done and will be done.
The amendment to Committee Recommenda- |
tion GP-I yesterday will be circulated by
tomorrow. We will follow the practice of
printing the recommendation showing any
language deleted by amendment as stricken
through and any language added by amend-
ment in italics so that you can readily see
the original form and the amended form.
Keep in mind that this same procedure
will be followed by the Committee on Style
in making its report of changes. In order
to avoid any confusion the rewrite of the
committee recommendation as amended by
the Committee of the Whole will be printed
as an attachment to the report of the Com-
mittee of the Whole and will be printed on
white paper.
The report of the Committee on Style,
which will also have language stricken
through and in italics, will be accompanied
by a draft of the committee recommenda-
tions with the proposed amendments but
printed on a different color paper, different
either from the blue or the salmon or the
white so that you can very readily dis-
tinguish which is which.
The Chief Page tells me she has just dis-
tributed to the desks of all delegates a copy
of the proposed amendment to Committee
Recommendation SF-I, therefore she will
not distribute additional copies to your
desks in the committee rooms but will see
that all delegates not here do receive copies.
The Chair recognizes Delegate Powers,
Chairman of the Committee on Calendar
and Agenda.
DELEGATE POWERS: Mr. President,
I move we adjourn until 2:00 P.M. to-
morrow.
THE PRESIDENT: All those in favor,
signify by saying Aye; contrary, No. The
Ayes have it. It is so ordered.
(Whereupon, at 3:09 P.M., the Convention
was adjourned to reconvene at 2:00 P.M. on
November 3, 1967.)
PLENARY SESSION
NOVEMBER 3, 1967—2:00 P.M.
PRESIDENT H. VERNON ENEY,
PRESIDING
THE PRESIDENT: The Convention will
please come to order.
The invocation today will be offered by
Father Gabriel Briestensky of St. Bene-
dict's Catholic Church, Baltimore, Mary-
land. Father Briestensky. |
