tion here to give the President carte blanche
authority to create any offices other than
those already provided for under the rules.
The intention is to create new officers, and
the Convention must do that by rule change.
At that point the appointment of judicial
officers would flow from this rule.
Your second question, sir, I believe was
whether this would have any impact upon
the matter of filling vacancies should they
arise in the office of either the First or
Second Vice-President. Since that is spe-
cifically provided for by the rule of the
Convention already adopted, which this
resolution does not amend, I think the an-
swer to your question is that it would have
no impact on that, Dr. Burdette.
THE PRESIDENT: Any further discus-
sion? Are you ready for the question? The
question arises on the motion to adopt Reso-
lution No. 1. All those in favor, signify by
saying Aye; contrary, No. The Ayes have
it. It is so ordered.
Are there any other motions or resolu-
tions?
(There was no response.)
THE PRESIDENT: Is there any un-
finished business?
(There was no response.)
THE PRESIDENT: If not, we will move
on to the next item on the agenda, which
is announcements.
I have some announcements to make, and
after I conclude, I will call upon each com-
mittee chairman to make any announce-
ment he chooses as to committee meetings
or other matters pertaining to operation of
the committees.
The first announcement is to announce
formally to the Convention, so that it may
be entered upon the Journal, the committee
assignments and the appointment of com-
mittee chairmen, of which you are all
aware, and of which each delegate was noti-
fied in writing some weeks ago. I have given
the Reading Clerk a copy of the assign-
ments and will ask him to read the com-
mittee assignments at this time.
READING CLERK: The Committee on
Personal Rights and the Preamble: Chair-
man, Delegate Richard W. Kiefer; Dele-
gates, Beachley, Bennett, Bothe, Burgess—
DELEGATE SHERBOW: Mr. Presi-
dent?
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Sherbow. |
DELEGATE SHERBOW: May I invite
attention to the fact that every chairman
is aware of his assignment? May I suggest
that we now consider so much as having
been read the reading of the full committee
assignments?
THE PRESIDENT: It is moved that so
much as has been read of the committee as-
signments be considered as a reading of the
entire list of committee assignments and
appointment of chairmen. Is there a second?
(The motion was duly seconded.)
THE PRESIDENT: Is there any discus-
sion? 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.
A few other announcements pertaining
largely to housekeeping matters that I over-
looked yesterday or did not have in mind
at the time.
First, in order that the delegates and the
committee chairmen may plan their sched-
ule of affairs for the balance of the day,
every effort will be made to meet for this
session promptly at 2:00 P.M. To that end,
the call bell will be sounded at a quarter of
the hour, and again at five minutes of the
hour; and we will start promptly at 2:00
P.M. I would anticipate in the next week
or so that the sessions would be very, very
brief, fifteen minutes or a half hour. There
is, of course, always the possibility that
some matter may arise requiring more pro-
tracted consideration, but I do not think it
is likely that any Convention sessions would
in the course of the next week or so extend
for the whole afternoon. I think you can
plan your other engagements accordingly.
As I am sure all of you realize, there is
considerable confusion in the organization
of the Convention and of its staff. I am
told by old legislative hands that this is
par for the course and that we cannot ex-
pect everything to function perfectly at
the beginning. It certainly is not function-
ing perfectly. The duplicating center has
caused us a great deal of dismay and dis-
comfort, but we are assured that it will
function efficiently from now on.
It will be the purpose of the staff to
endeavor to get to you promptly a copy of
every document you should have at the time
required by the rules. This will mean that
the effort will be made to get promptly to
you in the late afternoon the calendar and
the agenda for the next day.
The effort will be made to have proposals,
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