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1	is a great deal of housekeeping, as you well know, that
2	has to be done in regard to the formation of a new
3	Constitution. Over the period of years for many
4	reasons we have had certain additions and changes made
5	to the Constitution which has made it into sort of a
6	hodge-podge. Certainly with a new Constitution about
7	to be proposed we don't want any semblance of a hodge-
8	podge. We want the important provisions that belong in
9	a Constitution and we don't want something to stand up
10	like a sore thumb that just happens to be the idea of
11	some people -- and I feel a minority of the people --
12	just doesn't belong in the Constitution.
13	If there is going to be a provision against
14	a lottery, it ought to be in Article 27 of our State Code
15	just as we have against bookmaking or anything of that
16	sort. If it is to be a crime to be prohibited, it ought
17	to be done by statute. It should not be in our state
18	Constitution. It doesn't belong in our new Constitution.
19	I also feel that if there were such an
20	inclusion in the new Constitution, that this would
21	jeopardize the approval of the new Constitution. This is