THE CHAIRMAN: Does any delegate
desire to speak in favor of the amendment?
Delegate Bushong, did you desire to
speak in favor of the amendment?
DELEGATE BUSHONG: No, sir.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Miller,
Beatrice Miller.
DELEGATE B. MILLER: A point of
parliamentary inquiry, Mr. Chairman.
THE CHAIRMAN: State your inquiry.
DELEGATE B. MILLER: If we vote
down the Rybczynski amendment and then
vote. for the Case-Lord amendment, can we
then ask for reconsideration of the Ryb-
czynski amendment?
THE CHAIRMAN: So long as the Com-
mittee of the Whole has not risen, I sup-
pose we can ask for reconsideration of any
vote, but the Chair fails to see why you
would want to do this.
DELEGATE L. TAYLOR: I would want
to do this in view of my Chairman's sug-
gestion that if the Case-Lord amendment
passes, he would prefer it with the Ryb-
czynski amendment on it.
I do not want to vote for the Rybczynski
amendment unless I have to.
THE CHAIRMAN: I would suggest to
you, Delegate Miller, that to accomplish
your purpose, you would vote in favor of
the Rybczynski amendment to the amend-
ment, and if it passed, you would then vote
against the amendment substituted for the
Case-Lord amendment.
DELEGATE B. MILLER: Thank you
very much.
THE CHAIRMAN: Does any other dele-
gate desire to speak in favor of the amend-
ment to the amendment?
Delegate Mason?
DELEGATE MASON: Mr. Chairman,
initially I was in favor of the single-dele-
gate district.
Now the Rybczynski amendment and the
Case-Lord amendment, cut the senatorial
districts down into single senate districts,
and they limit it to three delegate districts.
There has been considerable discussion
here that if you vote for the Rybczynski or
Case amendments, you would be further-
ing the rights of political organizations.
I do not see it that way. I think if we vote
for the single-district, we would be further-
ing parochialism. |
Now, in Baltimore City, I do not see how
a single district would help minority groups
whether political or ethnic. I think the Re-
publicans and the Democrats, at least in
my district, all live together.
I might also suggest that in Baltimore
City we have a City Council, which is
elected in a multi-delegate district. If we
were arguing this point in the Baltimore
Council, I certainly would be in favor of a
single-delegate district, but since we are
speaking of legislative districts, I think
our delegates in the Legislature should be
more broadminded than the councilmen we
elect to our City Council. Therefore, I will
vote for the Rybczynski amendment.
THE CHAIRMAN: Before recognizing
anyone else, I think the Chair should call
the attention of the Committee of the
Whole to the fact that we have debated
the Case-Lord amendment for 25 minutes.
We have engaged 42 minutes in debating
the Rybczynski amendment to the amend-
ment, and 27 persons have spoken to that
amendment. Does any other delegate desire
to speak in opposition to the amendment to
the amendment?
Delegate Koger?
DELEGATE KOGER: Mr. Chairman, I
certainly would like to record my opposi-
tion to this amendment. Now, I want to
say in all sincerity that I think the most
progressive legislation that could come out,
1 mean the most progressive provision that
we could put into this Constitution would
be the one advocated by the Legislative
Committee. 1, too, am from Baltimore City.
First of all, I am from a district where
only one element is represented here now.
The group that you see here is not a cross-
section of that district. We are all from
Baltimore, and all of us from the same
economic, affluent district.
We live in those areas, and the main
reason is that the districts are not so di-
vided that we get a cross-section of repre-
sentation.
I believe. that if we defeat this amend-
ment, we will get not only more exact rep-
resentation, but also quality of represen-
tation.
For instance, in a district similar to the
kind that I represent, we are overrun with
bossism. We are overrun with the rack-
eteers, and we are not actually getting the
kind of people in politics who can very well
represent the people, or rather in the way
they should. For instance, we dissipate our
energies and potential with cliques, we |
