A PROPOSAL that no lottery grant shall
ever hereafter be authorized by the Gen-
eral Assembly; that the General Assembly
may establish a state-operated lottery; that
one-tenth of the profits shall he allocated
to the State, and nine-tenths to Baltimore
City and the several counties in propor-
tion to the numbers of lottery tickets sold
tfterein; and that any county, by its repre-
sentatives in t1ie General Assembly may
exempt itself from or include itself within
the provisions of legislation for a lottery.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Proposal
No. 39 is referred to the Committee on
State Finance and Taxation.
Delegate Proposal No. 40. The Clerk will
read the proposal.
READING CLERK: Delegate Proposal
No. 40, by Delegate James. Title,
A PROPOSAL that the incumbent of any
elected office shall remain in office until his
successor has qualified.
THE PRESIDENT: Delegate Proposal
No. 40 is referred to the Committee on Gen-
eral Provisions.
Mr. Clerk, are there any other proposals?
CHIEF CLERK: No other proposals, Mr.
President.
THE PRESIDENT: Are there any mo-
tions or resolutions?
CHIEF CLERK: No, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: The next item to an-
nounce, since I have several announce-
ments to make—is that you should have
all of the Delegate Proposals read across
the desk today except 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40.
They will be here very shortly. They will
be placed in your box, if you leave your
box here and the appropriate copies will be
placed in your other box in the committee
rooms.
I wish to inform the Convention that, in
accordance with the invitation heretofore
extended to the governor, about which I
informed the Convention at its opening ses-
sio'n this past Tuesday, arrangements have
been made for the governor to address the
Convention at its session on this coming
Wednesday, September 20. He will address
the session at such time as the Committee
on Calendar and Agenda fixes in the calen-
dar, but approximately at 2:15 P.M.
It has been suggested that there is some
confusion as to whether the committees of
the Convention may consider as being be- |
fore them any matters that are not em-
bodied in proposals formally submitted to
the Convention and read across the desk,
and technically whether the committees may
consider for discussion, and possible inclu-
sion in the constitution to be drafted by
the Convention any provisions of the pres-
ent Constitution that are not formally em-
bodied in proposal read across the desk.
The answer to this question is, yes. As
was indicated in the opening session, the
intent of the rules is that, unlike the legis-
lature, these committees may create and
these committees may themselves create in-
dependently of any proposals that have been
read across the desk any provisions which
they think should be in a constitution. This
ultimately is read across the desk. It in
effect becomes a proposal, except that in
order to distinguish them, it is called in
the rules a committee recommendation in-
stead of a proposal, but a proposal by a
committee rather than a proposal by a dele-
gate. However, in order to avoid any over-
sights on the part of one committee that
provisions of the present Constitution should
be considered by another committee, the
staff will prepare and circulate by Mon-
day or Tuesday to the committees and com-
mittee chairmen a memorandum suggesting
for study to the respective committees, pro-
visions of the present Constitution; in other
words, allocating among the various com-
mittees the provisions of the present Con-
stitution. This is by no means binding
upon the committees. This does not limit
you in any way. It merely is a flag, a warn-
ing to you that the other delegates and
committees of a convention will assume
that a particular committee to whom a
section of the present Constitution is as-
signed will at least consider the possible
inclusion or modification or rejection of
that section.
This should prevent a situation arising
where a provision in the present Constitu-
tion which the Convention may very well
want to retain is overlooked because the
committees assume it is somebody else's
business to take care of it.
I am instructed that the tunnel passes
requested by those delegates who are re-
quired to use the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel
in coming and going to the Convention are
ready and can be picked up at Mr. Mar-
tineau's office at any time.
I am very happy to be able to advise the
Convention that I had a telephone message
from Mrs. Morgan about half hour ago to
the effect that Delegate Morgan is feeling |
