an administrative assistant very soon. We
feel the need very much.
THE PRESIDENT: You will have. I
might add that your committee is the most
neglected committee in the assignment of
staff of any. It is now high on the agenda
of replacement.
The Committee on General Provisions,
Delegate Boyer.
DELEGATE BOYER: Mr. President, un-
aware of the contemplated announcement
of the Chair that the chairmen of the
committees will meet this afternoon, the
Committee on General Provisions had ten-
tatively set a short organizational meeting
for this afternoon. I do not think it is quite
that important; so I think we will cancel
our meeting for this afternoon and meet
tomorrow morning in the committee room
at 9:00 A.M. sharp. At that time, I would
like to announce at this time to members
of the committee, we will have a witness
who will be very important, and I would
suggest that you attend on time.
THE PRESIDENT: The Committee on
Style, Drafting and Arrangement, Delegate
Penniman.
DELEGATE PENNIMAN: At this time
I have no announcement to make. We will
hold a meeting beginning sometime next
week, but at this time there are no meet-
ings scheduled for this Committee.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Any
other announcements? Delegate Morgan?
DELEGATE MORGAN: One of the
members of my committee suggested that
we postpone the meeting until 3:30 P.M.
and so that is what the Committee on the
Executive Branch will do. We will meet
at 3:30 P.M. down in the committee room.
THE PRESIDENT: What is it, Delegate
Leitzel?
DELEGATE LEITZEL: I would like to
make an announcement of interest to the
Baltimore County delegates. A meeting has
been called for 1:30 P.M. tomorrow after-
noon in the Ways and Means Committee
Rooms in the basement of the State House,
1:30 P.M. tomorrow, Baltimore County
delegates.
THE PRESIDENT: Let me suggest to
you, Delegate Leitzel, that you cannot use
that room except by the permission of the
chairman of the committee assigned to it.
Have you talked to him about it? |
DELEGATE LEITZEL: Miss Jacqueline
McCurdy talked to me. She said that had
been cleared. That is all I know about it.
THE PRESIDENT: I do not remember
at the moment which committee has that
room. Delegate Gallagher?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Presi-
dent, Miss McCurdy did speak to me, and
since it is a 1:30 P.M. meeting, I told her
it is all right since it is so close to the 2:00
P.M. session.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Dele-
gate Scanlan?
DELEGATE SCANLAN: I just want to
announce a short meeting of the Rules
Committee at 12:00 noon tomorrow in the
committee hearing room, another basement
meeting in the basement of the Shaw House.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Scanlan,
are your members aware of which room
that is? It is not the large Baltimore City
delegation room?
DELEGATE SCANLAN: No. It is not.
We have not been around there. We have
been holding our meetings in more commo-
dious quarters, but they might as well face
up to it now.
THE PRESIDENT: It is the room on
your right as you face the door to Main
Street in the basement. I do not know the
number, but you will not have any diffi-
culty. Delegate Gallagher?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: May I sug-
gest to the members of the various sub-
committees appointed this morning to the
Legislative Branch that the committee room
will be available to them should they desire
to meet this afternoon to take up the vari-
ous sub-matters that were assigned to
them; so the six subcommittees are invited
to meet voluntarily.
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.
Any further announcements? Let me
make one comment about the audio system,
which is a little too much in operation,
perhaps; but I think most of the difficulty
is in our use of it. The audio system that
is here now is a new system; it has just
been installed. It is a very sensitive, high
fidelity system. It is difficult, I am told, to
adjust it at the controls here to pick up
with the same fidelity and degree of vol-
ume the voices of different people, when the
voices are of such a wide range and timbre
and tone. This is complicated by the fact
that we all differ so in our habits as to how
far from our mouths we hold the micro-
phone. |
