Is there any further discussion?
(There was no response.)
The question arises on the secondary
amendment to Delegate Powers' motion to
adjourn, that is, that the motion be amended
to provide that the Convention adjourn
until 12:00 noon tomorrow, Tuesday. Are
you ready for the question?
(Call for the question.)
A vote Aye is a vote in favor of the
amendment. A vote No is a vote against.
All in favor, signify by saying Aye; con-
trary, No. The Chair is in doubt. A roll
call vote. A vote Aye is a vote in favor of
the amendment to adjourn until 12:00 noon
tomorrow. A vote No is a vote against the
amendment, and leaves Delegate Vecera's
amendment before us. Please signify your
votes.
Have all delegates voted? Does any dele-
gate desire to change his vote?
(There was no response.)
The Clerk will record the vote.
There being 76 votes in the affirmative,
and 57 in the negative, the amendment is
adopted.
The question now before you arises on
the motion as amended to amend the mo-
tion to adjourn to provide that we adjourn
until 12:00 noon tomorrow. The Chair rec-
ognizes Delegate Wheatley.
DELEGATE WHEATLEY: Mr. Presi-
dent, will the Chairman of the Committee
on Calendar and Agenda yield for a ques-
tion prior to the vote?
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Powers?
DELEGATE POWERS: Yes.
DELEGATE WHEATLEY: Just so we
can be clear on this debate, to be clear
under the rule, under what schedule would
members who are not members of the
committee, be aware of the decision of the
majority or minority so that they may be
scheduled for debate?
DELEGATE POWERS: The plan would
not only permit debate by the controlled
debate under majority and minority time,
but it would also allow uncontrolled debate.
That is the procedure which I believe has
been explained, but there is no harm in
repeating this. Each side is allowed equal
time, one, under the control. This follows
the procedure of the United States Con-
gress and other similar organizations, one
under the committee chairman, who would
control the majority of the debate and |
yield time to various delegates, and the
other would be controlled by someone,
agreed upon by the minority. That delegate
would yield time to other delegates, within
the total controlled limitation. Then there
would be other time that would be per-
mitted by delegates who were not yielded
to by the chairman of the committee or
whoever was in control of the minority de-
bate, and there would be a limitation of
that time. In the latter category, it would
be a matter of being recognized by the
President, the Chairman of the Committee
of the Whole.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Wheatley?
DELEGATE WHEATLEY: Will the
Chairman yield for one further question
for clarification? What would you advise
for the procedure in the event you want to
participate in the control of debate? Would
this be best accomplished by contacting
the chairman of the committee?
DELEGATE POWERS: If you want to
participate in the controlled debate on the
side of the committee recommendation, see
the chairman of the committee. If you want
to participate on the other side, the chair-
man of the committee can certainly tell you
who controls the minority. Sometimes that
will be divided among various people, de-
pending upon the division of the issues, and
if you do not get an agreement to get any
time there, then the next thing to do is to
get recognized as soon as you can.
DELEGATE WHEATLEY: One further
question, and I think it will be cleared in
my mind. In the event you were not able
to be in the controlled debate and were
questioning as to whether or not there was
such time allowed for the uncontrolled de-
bate, the only way to change that would be
to vote against the rule. Is that correct?
DELEGATE POWERS: That is correct.
If any delegate is not satisfied with the
proposal tomorrow, for example, starting
out with the committee recommendation of
the legislative branch, there would be in
addition to the usual Calendar and Agenda
a debate scheduled, and at the time the mo-
tion was made to resolve the Convention
into the Committee of the Whole, it would
carry with it the adoption of the debate
schedule. Any member who is aggrieved by
the debate schedule would then be given an
opportunity to assert his position, and there
would be a vote of the majority of the
Convention as to whether it was debatable.
DELEGATE WHEATLEY: In order to
intelligently appraise this, would it be pos-
sible to have the tentative schedules ad- |
