mittee of the Whole is that there be a bi-
partisan commission created which shall
have the initial responsibility of submitting
a redistricting plan to the General Assem-
bly. The General Assembly may act upon
it or not, or come up with its own plan, if
it wishes. However, if it does nothing or is
unable to agree, the bipartisan commission
plan would become the law, so it might
certainly be more preferable not to use on
line 6 "The General Assembly," inasmuch
as it would really be the product of the
commission, if that were the will of the
Committee of the Whole.
I believe my suggestion would get over
that difficulty, regardless of how we ulti-
mately handled the matter.
THE CHAIRMAN: Would Delegate
Rybczynski accept the suggested modifica-
tion?
DELEGATE RYBCZYNSKI: It is ac-
cepted.
THE CHAIRMAN: Do the seconders ac-
cept?
(Whereupon, the modification was ac-
cepted.)
THE CHAIRMAN: The amendment is
modified by striking out the words "The
General Assembly shall," in line 6, and the
word "divide" in line seven. Change the
lower case "t" for "the", to a capital, in
line seven, and start a new sentence. Insert
after the word "State" the words "shall be
divided," and strike out the comma and
the words "in accordance with" on line 13,
and the word "law" on line 14.
As modified, the amendment is before
you. Does any delegate desire to speak in
opposition?
Delegate Bushong.
DELEGATE BUSHONG: Mr. Chair-
man, may I ask my chairman and the rest
of these proponents, why have any House
districts at all?
THE CHAIRMAN: To whom is your
question addressed?
DELEGATE BUSHONG: My chairman.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Chair-
man, in answer to our loyal, hardworking
member of the Committee, I have not left
the ship yet. I am still for the proposal as
it has been presented, because I do believe,
as I said before, that it is much better that
each voter have one state senator and one |
house member representing him. 1, there-
fore, oppose the amendment of Delegates
Lord and Case. However, should it be
adopted, I would applaud and recommend
Mr. Rybczynski's amendment to the amend-
ment.
But I am still with our Committee at
the moment.
THE CHAIRMAN: Does any delegate
desire to speak in favor of the amendment?
Delegate Gilchrist.
DELEGATE GILCHRIST: A question
for clarification from Delegate Rybczynski.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Rybczyn-
ski, do you yield for a question?
DELEGATE RYBCZYNSKI: Yes.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gilchrist.
DELEGATE GILCHRIST: In line 10 of
the proposal you have one senate district
and three whole delegate districts. Do you
not mean "composed of" instead of "and"?
DELEGATE RYBCZYNSKI: I do not
think it will make any difference. If you
will go back to line nine and read the en-
tire sentence and phrase, "A legislative
district shall consist of one senate district
and three delegate districts," I think it is
a complete thought.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Gilchrist?
Does any other delegate desire to speak
against the amendment?
Delegate Singer.
DELEGATE SINGER: I have a ques-
tion for Delegate Rybczynski.
THE CHAIRMAN: I asked for anyone
desiring to speak in opposition.
Delegate Sickles.
DELEGATE SICKLES: Mr. Chairman,
1 normally would not presume to give any
political advice to many of the members of
this House, but since I am one of the few
here who candidly and clearly admits that
he is a politician, although 1 ran on a bi-
partisan basis, 1 realize that we are quite
antiseptic. I think there are some political
implications of this amendment to the
amendment, as well as the amendment.
I am in a rather interesting position be-
cause through a series of accidents I have
a degree of influence in the political arena
in my own county, and we survive, of
course, as do all political organizations, by |
