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gate desire to speak in favor of the amend-
ment?
Delegate B. Miller?
DELEGATE B. MILLER: I have a
question, Mr. Chairman. You now have two
questions.
THE CHAIRMAN: To whom is the
^question directed?
DELEGATE B. MILLER: My first ques-
tion is to Chairman Mudd.
THE CHAIRMAN: I first >ave to see if
someone desires to speak in favor of the
amendments.
Delegate Churchill Murray.
DELEGATE E. C. MURRAY: Mr.
Chairman, delegates, it is rather entertain-
ing to see how the discussion flows back
into my lap, because my very good neighbor
and very good friend used a business with
which I am quite familiar to illustrate his
point.
I am, as so often is the case, uncertain
as to the proper course to take. What
bothers me is the proposed plan for the
Court of Appeals. What bothers me even
more is the people who advocate it as it
is. Like many other people, when in doubt
I am apt to be influenced by my respect
for those who advocate or oppose a thing.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Murray,
may I interrupt you a second?
If you use the full three minutes you
are allotted, you will use up all of the re-
maining time and prevent Delegate Miller
from asking a question. I ask you only if
you can to have at least a minute or so.
DELEGATE E. C. MURRAY: Yes, sir.
I am going to support the amendment
because I know of a business that comes
very close to home in this respect. If this
concerned something that was for the day,
for the week, for the month, for the year,
I would take a different position, but I
have in mind a business which is under a
buy and sell agreement, that happens to be
a business that has for years been adver-
tised with the word "exclusively" in the
title, but the purchasers of this business
are not restricted to a continuation of that
business exclusively, because it is impos-
sible to know what the needs will be.
I shall support the amendment.
THE CHAIRMAN: Thank you.
Delegate Mudd, would you yield to a
question from Delegate Beatrice Miller?
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DELEGATE MUDD: Yes, Mr. Chair-
man.
THE CHAIRMAN: Delegate Miller,
there is available just one minute. If you
could state your question quickly and let
Delegate Mudd answer it.
DELEGATE B. MILLER: Could you
tell us precisely just what the word "ex-
clusively" would prevent the legislature
from doing and why the majority has put
it in.
DELEGATE MUDD: Well, in answer to
that question, Delegate Miller, it has been
put in to emphasize, I should say, exactly
what has existed under the present Mary-
land Constitution, as very ably explained
by Delegate Case a couple of minutes ago.
The situation under the present Consti-
tution is that the word "exclusively" is not
therein contained. The judicial power of
the State is vested in certain courts, and
except with respect to the court of special
appeals, were created by constitutional
amendment, wherein the creation of other
courts is left to the legislature and the
legislature under the present Constitution
does not have the power to create courts.
Does that answer your question?
THE CHAIRMAN: I am sorry, that is
the end of the controlled debate period un-
der the debate schedule.
Delegate Dukes?
DELEGATE DUKES: Is a motion in
order at this time to suspend the debate
schedule?
THE CHAIRMAN: The Committee of
the Whole has no power to suspend the
rules or change the debate schedule. That
could be accomplished only by the Conven-
tion.
DELEGATE DUKES: May I make a
parliamentary inquiry, will you please ad-
vise me the method by which we can sus-
pend the rules?
THE CHAIRMAN: The only way it can
be accomplished would be for the Commit-
tee of the Whole to rise and request the
Convention to amend the debate schedule.
DELEGATE DUKES: If that motion is
in order I would make that motion.
THE CHAIRMAN: Motion is made that
the Committee of the Whole rise. Do you
want a specific request to amend the de-
bate schedule?
DELEGATE DUKES: I would like an-
other thirty minutes.
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