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A MINORITY REPORT concerning
Committee Report No. EB-1 in which the
Committee on the Executive Branch voted
11-9 not to provide for the office of an
elected Attorney General in the Constitu-
tion.
THE PRESIDENT: Minority Report
EB-l(D) will be received and distributed.
There has also been distributed today
Memorandum accompanying Delegate Pro-
posal No. 410 by Delegate Finch, Memo-
randum accompanying Delegate Proposal
No. 413 by Delegate Finch.
There has also been distributed another
reprint from volume 2 of the publications
of the Constitutional Convention Commis-
sion. This shows in tabular form a com-
parison of all the provisions of the ju-
diciary article of the present constitution
with those of the previous constitutions.
I am not suggesting you read it. It is here
for reference. It may save some time in
questioning, if you have a question, as to
what the previous constitution may have
provided in the given area with respect to
the judiciary article; you can see it at a
glance by referring to this tabulation. I
would suggest, therefore, that you keep it
in your desk on the floor.
I am very happy to report to you that
the Report of the Committee on the Legis-
lative Branch is in the Clerk's Office, LB-
2; Report of the Committee on Suffrage
and Elections, S&E-2, is in my office, and
this means that every committee has today
or heretofore filed its principal report, its
final report on the principal subjects with
which it was concerned.
As I indicated this morning, I have asked
the Committee on Suffrage and Elections
to defer distribution of its report to give
the members further opportunity to polish
some of the language and perhaps save
time in amendments.
The Committee on General Provisions
still has under consideration completed, but
not yet in polished form, its report with
respect to impeachment, amendments, sepa-
ration of powers, and provision as to the
common law. Each of the committees has
under consideration a few tag ends deal-
ing with specific proposals. I have asked
each committee not to defer their principal
reports in order to complete all of these
loose ends.
I will ask the Convention at the appropri-
ate time, on Monday or Tuesday, to permit
the filing of these reports, which have been
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delayed at my request. The reports are
complete, and I think that the committee
chairmen, and each of the committees of
the Convention, are due a very hearty vote
of thanks for their untiring efforts and
considerable work at night and considerable
pressure from me on the committee chair-
men and on their staffs to get all of these
reports in on time. When you see them,
you will realize that the Convention dele-
gates, chairmen and staff have really been
working very, very hard in the past few
weeks.
I want to extend my personal thanks and
I am sure you do too.
(Applause.)
Occasionally there comes into the Presi-
dent's office a letter which I feel impelled
to share with you. I received such a letter
this morning. I will not read you the entire
letter, but it contains a few excerpts that
I think are really too precious not to pass
on to you. The letter is from the principal
of the Hampton School, who was here at
the Convention, with a group of her stu-
dents on November 16. She writes to con-
gratulate the Convention on the work it
is doing and to express a tremendous in-
terest which she as an educator and which
her students had in the work of the Con-
vention and of the committees.
With her letter she sent a memorandum
of perhaps 12 or 15 comments made by
several of the students, or 15 of the stu-
dents, either on their way back to school
or the following day. Two of them I think
you really ought to hear. One goes on at
some length, but concludes with these three
sentences: "I was disappointed when we
left the general session because I had ex-
pected to be there longer. I was surprised
to find that they had trouble with the word-
ing of the Constitution."
With this particular group, several of
the delegates spent time over lunch hour
talking to them about the Convention, and
one of the delegates who did this was Dele-
gate Winslow. The comment of one of the
students with * respect to that was this :
"My favorite part of the trip was talking
with Dr. Winslow. I thougiht he was very
sincere, as he took his own lunch time to
tell us about the Convention. I do not know
just how many people would take their
lunch to tell us about the Convention, so
I gave him a candy bar."
(Applause.)
I thought that really should be preserved
in the Journal of the Convention.
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