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guished member of the Prince George's
County Bar Association, with his very
lovely wife, Joseph A. DePaul, Esquire,
and his wife, Corrine. Mr. DePaul is also
the law partner of Delegate Willoner.
THE PRESIDENT: Delighted to have
them.
(Applause.)
The Chair recognizes Delegate Powers.
DELEGATE POWERS: Mr. President,
I move the Convention resolve itself into
the Committee of the Whole for the pur-
pose of resuming consideration of the Gen-
eral Orders of the day.
THE PRESIDENT: Second?
(Whereupon, the motion was duly sec-
onded.)
THE PRESIDENT: All those in favor
signify by saying Aye, contrary No. The
Ayes have it. It is so ordered.
(Whereupon, at 2:10 P.M. t he Convention
resolved itself into the Committee of the
Whole.)
(The mace was removed by the Sergeant-
at-Arms.)
COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE
DECEMBER 2, 1967—2:10 P.M.
PRESIDENT H. VERNON ENEY,
PRESIDING
THE CHAIRMAN: The Committee of
the Whole will please come to order. Un-
der the General Orders, we have under con-
sideration Committee Recommendation LB-
2, and particularly Amendment No. 20.
Does any other delegate desire to speak
in opposition to the amendment?
Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Chair-
man, ladies and gentlemen: I should like
to ask the permission of the Chair under
the appropriate rule to allow the Commit-
tee on the Legislative Branch to retire to
the lounge, if it is clear, to take up the
consideration of the amendment before us
in the section, Mr. Chairman.
THE CHAIRMAN: The Chair suggests
that you retire to the President's office for
a more cloistered consideration. Delegate
Gallagher, is this a very brief matter?
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Very brief.
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THE CHAIRMAN: The Convention will
just mark time for a few minutes. Delegate
Della.
DELEGATE DELLA: Is that only the
majority of the Committee?
THE CHAIRMAN: No, the entire Com-
mittee.
Delegate Schneider.
DELEGATE SCHNEIDER: Mr. Chair-
man, I rise for personal privilege to say
the score is ten to nothing, Navy.
THE CHAIRMAN: The Clerk will ring
the quorum bell, please.
The Committee of the Whole will please
come to order.
Some partisan person who may or may
not be a member of the Committee of the
Whole has placed on the desk of the Chair-
man hieroglyphics. I have not the remotest
idea what it means but it may mean some-
thing to you, so I will read it, as near as I
can make out it says, "Navy scored again,
17 to nothing."
The Chair recognizes Delegate Gallagher
for the purpose of making a statement with
respect to section 3.17.
Delegate Gallagher.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Chair-
man, ladies and gentlemen of the Com-
mittee of the Whole: The Committee on the
Legislative Branch has met and has con-
sidered in detail and, sentence by sentence,
the language of section 3.17, titled, Journal
and Passage of Bills, and I am directed to
say —
THE CHAIRMAN: Just a second.
Delegate Penniman, may I call your at-
tention to this announcement? It will have
a bearing on the decisions of the Commit-
tee on Style.
DELEGATE GALLAGHER: Mr. Chair-
man, I am directed to say that I am in a
position to state the interpretation and in-
tention which the Legislative Branch Com-
mittee intended shall be made with respect
to each of these sentences, which I will now
take seriatim.
"Each house of the General Assembly
shall keep a current daily journal of its
proceedings, which shall be open to public
inspection at all reasonable times, and a
transcript of its debates."
It is the intention of the Committee on
the Legislative Branch that this shall be a
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