Amendment No. 2 to Committee Recom-
mendation LB-I.
A vote Aye is a vote in favor of Amend-
ment No. 2. A vote No is a vote against.
All those in favor, signify by saying Aye;
contrary, No. The Noes have it.
Are there any further amendments to
section 3.01?
(There was no response.)
If not, we will proceed to a consideration
of section 3.04; as to section 3.04, there is
a Minority Report LB-I (B). For what pur-
pose does Delegate Gallagher arise?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: A point
of parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Chairman.
Have we in fact adopted 3.01 or do you
plan to take that up at the end?
THE CHAIRMAN: Under the procedure
provided in the Rules, we will not vote on
each section. We go through the entire rec-
ommendation, section by section seriatim,
for the purpose of amendments. After we
have concluded consideration all the way
through, then the entire Committee Recom-
mendation as amended will be before you.
Minority Report LB-I (B), the Minority
Spokesman is Delegate dark. He may
come forward to the Reading Clerk's desk
to present the Minority Report. Delegate
Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Chair-
man, I move that section 3.04 be divided.
I should like the two matters within sec-
tion 3.04 to be divided. That is to say—
THE CHAIRMAN: We are not doing
anything at the moment except considering
amendments. When we have the amend-
ment before us, we can determine whether
the amendment need be divided.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Right, sir.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate dark, do
you desire to come forward?
I should have said Delegate James Clark.
DELEGATE J. CLARK: I am going to
yield fifteen minutes of the controlled time,
by agreement with the Chairman of the
Commitee to a member of this Convention
who I think is best qualified to speak on
this subject, Delegate James of Harford
County.
THE CHAIRMAN: The difficulty, Dele-
gate Clark, with your yielding is that the
debate schedule gives you only ten minutes.
Do you propose to yield ten minutes? |
DELEGATE JAMES: 1 spoke with the
Chairman of the Committee. He had ten
minutes and he agreed that we could use
five minutes of his ten minutes.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gallagher
is going to yield five minutes of his time.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Yes.
DELEGATE J. CLARK: It is agreeable
with the Chairman of the Committee, sir.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate James,
come forward.
DELEGATE JAMES: Mr. Chairman—
THE CHAIRMAN: Let me ask this,
Delegate James: I take it that your present
intention is merely to present the commit-
tee report and if so, this will not be charged
against your time. You are not debating
the issue at this point?
DELEGATE JAMES: I am using Com-
mittee time, the minority time, that is cor-
rect.
THE CHAIRMAN: Just for presenta-
tion of the report. After the report is pre-
sented, there will be an opportunity for
questions, after which Delegate James will
resume his seat for the debate. This time
is not charged against Delegate James.
DELEGATE JAMES: Mr. Chairman,
members of the Committee of the Whole:
the Minority Report LB-I (A) is designed
to seek a reorganization of the General As-
sembly of Maryland by permitting an 80-
member House and a 40-member Senate.
I would like to begin my presentation by
telling you that I have served for two terms
or eight years in the old Senate, consisting
of 29 members.
That Senate was divided into two major
committees, a 15-member Senate Finance
Committee and a 14-member Judicial Com-
mittee.
All of the important work of the Senate.
was handled through these two committees,
with certain minor exceptions.
There was a multiplicity of small com-
mittees, but these only met on Thursday
afternoons.
The defeats of this organization were
rather apparent to me during that period.
The major committees were overloaded.
The remaining committees were inefficient
in that they lacked time for meeting, and
an interlocking membership made the at-
tendance difficult. |
