DELEGATE BOTHE: I would like to
record my presence.
THE CHAIRMAN: Are there any
others?
Delegate Dulany.
DELEGATE DULANY: I would like to
report my presence, Mr. Chairman.
THE CHAIRMAN: Are there any
others?
Now, I would like to make the announce-
ment that I have started four times to
make. There have been so many requests
for copies of each vote that we can no
longer furnish them by Xeroxing them as
we have been doing. Accordingly, begin-
ning with the next vote, which I hope will
occur in the next thirty seconds, we will
make duplicated copies, 200 of them, of
every tally sheet. It will take us at least
twenty minutes. A copy of the vote will be
put on the desk of each delegate. Please
do not send pages to the reading clerk's
desk to borrow his only copy.
While I am making announcements, I
have been requested to announce that some-
one has apparently inadvertently walked
off with the wrong overcoat, a black over-
coat that was last seen in the press room.
If you know the whereabouts of an un-
claimed black overcoat, put a notice in the
press room.
The question now arises on the adoption
of Amendment No. 9 to Committee Recom-
mendation LB-I. The Chair is dividing the
question, and is submitting to you at this
time all of the amendment except the last
sentence in the first paragraph, beginning
with the words "Each delegate," on line 14,
and ending with the word "district," in
line 17.
In other words, we are taking out of the
question on which you are voting now the
question of single member districts.
A vote Aye is a vote in favor of Amend-
ment No. 9. A vote No is a vote against.
Has every delegate voted?
Does any delegate desire to change his
vote?
(There was no response,)
The Clerk will record the vote.
There being 30 votes in the affirmative
and 98 votes in the negative, the motion is
lost. The amendment is rejected. |
I take it that the sponsor of the motion
does not at this time, as part of this mo-
tion, desire to submit the second part of the
motion? Is that correct, Delegate Sherbow?
DELEGATE SHERBOW: I go further.
I wish to withdraw the rest of the amend-
ment.
THE CHAIRMAN: The rest of the
amendment is withdrawn.
Are there any further amendments to
section 3.04, dealing with numbers?
Delegate Weidemeyer.
DELEGATE WEIDEMEYER: Mr. Pres-
ident, Members of the Convention, I have
an amendment to section 3.04.
I would ask that you have the Clerk read
the amendment. The letters on this are
LB-I.
THE CHAIRMAN: The Clerk will read
the amendment. This amendment now being
distributed, please mark it as Amendment
No. 10 by Delegate Weidemeyer.
READING CLERK: Amendment No. 10
to Committee Recommenation LB-I, by Del-
egate Weidemeyer: On page 1 line 24 of
Committee Recommendation LB-I strike out
the words "one hundred five" and insert in
lieu thereof the words "one hundred twen-
ty"; and on page 2 lines 1 and 2 strike
out the words "one-third the number of
delegates" and insert in lieu thereof the
following:
"fifty-two casting one hundred seventy-
three votes. Each county shall be entitled to
at least one senator casting one vote and
each senator's vote weighted according to
population with no one senator casting more
than five votes subject to change in number
of senators and number of votes to be cast
per senator as population changes occur and
as the General Assembly may provide."
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Weide-
meyer, the Chair calls your attention to
the fact that the first four lines of your
amendment are incorrect. Section 3.04 has
already been amended to substitute the nu-
merals 120 in line 24. Do you desire to
strike the first paragraph of your amend-
ment?
DELEGATE WEIDEMEYER: Mr. Pres-
ident, I believe that concurs with the
changes made this morning.
THE CHAIRMAN: The change has al-
ready been made.
DELEGATE WEIDEMEYER: Then I |
