DELEGATE SHERBOW: Yes, indeed.
THE CHAIRMAN: Proceed.
DELEGATE WHITE: Concerning this
fractional vote, I wonder if we could work
out some kind of a fraction that could get
some of my people down here from the
counties?
DELEGATE SHERBOW: I do not know
how you can get some of anybody's people
anywhere except by the election processes,
such as those we have in Baltimore City,
where people from every group were elected
to office, the same way it is done in every
other area, according to the laws, with the
best man and the best woman getting the
top number of votes declared elected.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate White?
DELEGATE WHITE: Will you yield
further? Would it appear to you, sir, that
the failure of any people to be elected from
any of the counties would indicate there is
something wrong with the machinery which
has been used?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Sherbow.
DELEGATE SHERBOW: I do not think
it is a matter of machinery. We are in
changing times. More and more we find
people who fifty years ago and forty years
ago, twenty years ago, would not have
been in the office they hold. One man had
no difficulty finding his way all the way up
to the highest office next to that of the
President, namely, a member of the Su-
preme Court of the United States, and he
comes from a minority group. All I can
say is that in these changing times, we can
get to the top, just as everybody else can
and should, and that is by merit, by strug-
gling, and to borrow a phrase, blood, sweat
and tears.
(Applause.)
THE CHAIRMAN: The Chair recognizes
Delegate Clark.
DELEGATE J. CLARK: Mr. Chairman
and ladies and gentlemen, I think I have a
little time left, and I would like to use a
few seconds of it to answer a question
raised by Delegate Scanlan. He said you
created two classes of counties and some of
the large counties might have a fraction
of a delegate left over which they would
not get. This is not true. The creation of
districts will take care of this. A district
for a delegate could cross the line in the
big counties, and, I think, remove this ob-
jection which he has raised. |
THE CHAIRMAN: Does any other dele-
gate desire to speak in opposition to the
amendment?
Delegate Pullen, do you desire to speak
in opposition?
DELEGATE PULLEN: In opposition.
THE CHAIRMAN: You may proceed.
DELEGATE PULLEN: Mr. Chairman,
when the Greeks fought for ten years
against the Creations and could not conquer
them, they built a wooden horse and filled it
with soldiers and gave it as a gift. I submit
to you that today we have a Trojan horse,
with the whole General Assembly inside
of it, and I think that as Mr. Gallagher
with his eloquence and his very gracious
manner has said, morituri salutamus — we
who are about to die, salute you; let's get
this over with.
THE CHAIRMAN: Does anyone desire
to speak in favor of the amendment to the
amendment?
DELEGATE MAURER: I have a ques-
tion for Judge Sherbow if he will yield.
Could Delegate Sherbow tell us how many
individuals would be seated in the House
with a resolved, fractional voting plan in
a 120-member House, which was the com-
promise figure adopted by this assemblage?
DELEGATE SHERBOW: Are you re-
ferring to fractional voting?
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Maurer.
DELEGATE MAURER: Under the. pro-
posal by Judge Sherbow, we would have a
120-member House plus fractional voting.
I am asking how many individuals would
be seated in this House beyond the 120
which was the compromise figure adopted.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Sherbow,
will you reflect on that question while we
change tape?
DELEGATE SHERBOW: Yes, sir.
THE CHAIRMAN: Please come to order.
I am hoping that after today's session, we
will no longer have these interruptions by
reason of the necessity of changing tape;
that the additional equipment will be here
so that we can continue without inter-
ruption.
The Chair recognizes Delegate Sherbow
to respond to the question.
DELEGATE SHERBOW: The response
I could give to you, Delegate Maurer, is
simply this: A number of votes would be, |
