MR. LONERGAN: It seems to me before the question is put everybody should have a chance to speak, so that when we vote we can do so intelligently. DR. QUINLAN: We have so much business on hand this afternoon that my idea was to get this question disposed of, not that we wish to curtail anything; but these matters take up so much time and there is so much scientific matter, our programme is so lengthy, that I simply want to be fair and just to everybody. GENERAL COLLINS: I have no desire to take up the time unnecessarily, but it seems to me we do not make a constitution every day in the week, and I am heartily in accord with the suggestion made by Mr. Lenehan that it should be left over. I do not think, as a matter of fact, we have any right to adopt a constitution. It is a question to me why every member of the Society ought not to be notified. Where members are living in all parts of the country and it is practically impossible for some of them to attend the meetings, it seems to me every member should be notified or a copy of the new constitution should be served on them. We do not make a constitution every day in the week, and the matter can very well wait over. It seems to me no detriment would be incurred by reason of holding over. DR. QUINLAN: You have heard the motion that this constitution be referred to the Executive Council for revision. MR. CRIMMINS: You mean by that the Executive Council would have to report back to the Society? MR. LONERGAN: I want to be as brief as possible. I take it the Executive Council is more representative of the Society at large than this gathering is, and I therefore move that this revised constitution be submitted to the Executive Council, with power to amend and revise, and that a copy thereof be sent forward to every member. GENERAL COLLINS: Can this Society delegate the power of adopting a constitution to the Executive Council? DR. QUINLAN: The Executive Council would have to report back to the Society. GENERAL COLLINS: The gentleman’s motion does not concur with that idea. His idea is that we submit it to the Executive Council with power to adopt, and it shall then stand. DR. QUINLAN: I don’t think that would be constitutional. It must be voted upon by the Society at large. Mr. Lonergan’s amendment is before the house. All in favor signify by saying “aye.” It seems to be carried; it is carried. All who are in favor of Mr. Lonergan’s motion will stand until counted. Forty-three. All who are opposed to Mr. Lonergan’s motion will stand until counted. Twenty-seven. These voices must have stentorian tones, if not a re-echo. The chair reverses its decision, and the verdict is that Mr. Lonergan’s amendment stands. JUDGE LEE: That was your decision in the first place. GENERAL COLLINS: I understand the decision, as interpreted by the chair, to be that the Executive Council report back to another meeting of the Society. DR. QUINLAN: That was the interpretation.