COMMITTEE ON THE EXECUTIVE, MILITIA AND CIVIL OFFICERS RECORD OF PROCEEDINGS
STATE OF NEW JERSEY CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1947
COMMITTEE ON THE EXECUTIVE, MILITIA AND CIVIL OFFICERS
Wednesday, July 30, 1947
(Morning session)
(Executive session)
(Minutes)
A business meeting of the Committee was held in Room 109 in the Rutgers University Gymnasium at 11:00 A. M., Wednesday, July 30, 1947.
Members present were: Chairman Van Alstyne, presiding, Barus, Eggers, Farley, Hansen, Miller, S., Jr., Smith, J. S., Walton and Young.
The Secretary stated that she was in the process of correcting all the minutes and records of the proceedings of the Committee so that there would be a perfect copy in the archives. She offered to correct and compile a complete set of these records for any member of the Committee who would like to have one.
The minutes of the previous meeting were approved.
The Committee then took up in order the various proposals put before it by other delegates and by citizens appearing at the hearing.
On the proposals of Delegate Park, Eggers moved to eliminate the word “But” in paragraph 5 of Section I [of the Article on the Executive], on the Governor’s term; and also to change “of” to “on” in line 2. Motion seconded and carried.1 References are to the printed tentative draft of the Committee Proposal, reprinted in Volume II.
Young moved not to change paragraph 2, of Section II [of the Article on Public Officers and Employees], relative to the impeachment procedure.
It was voted upon motion duly made and seconded not to change paragraph 3 in accordance with the proposal of Mr. Rudolph Vogel.
There was a discussion of the elimination of the pocket veto, and the suggested provision made by the Committee on the Legislative.
Smith moved to adopt the sense of this proposal. Motion seconded. Motion withdrawn.
Young moved to adopt the proposal to eliminate the pocket veto, with the change in wording suggested by Mr. Miller, – “disapprove” instead of “fail to sign.” Motion seconded and carried.
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