# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1986_S59
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MINUTES OF THE CONVENTION

Nominating Election Ballots
Ballot (1) (2) (3)
Mansholt, Dorothy .....----+---+-+° 132 191
McCants, John, Sr. ..-.-----+-e+- 00+ 303 489
McDaniels, Janis .....------+-5070+ 125 214
McPhail, Peter ....-------+2 0000007 41
Mients, Clifford Dr. .....-.--+----+> 46
Minto, Kenneth .......------+--00°° 50
Morgan, Lowell .....---.-++-+000007 30
Nienhueser, Ray ...-.-------+: 7707 60
Noack, Art .....--22+seeer crests 171 313 340 668
Oesterreich, Walter .....--------+°° 53
Reitz, Joe .....--.-.e ener eer 67
Renckert, Paul .....------+e 2000+ 107 153
Roth, Clarence ....---------020000° 68
Sansbury, James ....-------++000°° 33

Proposed Special Standing Rules

These standing rules prevailed for the 1986 convention.

_The chair shall see that the agenda is followed as

closely as possible.

_ Resolutions of each floor committee shall be prioritized

by number and shall normally be presented in the nu-
merical sequence published in Today’s Business.

_Each member of the convention, when recognized by

the chair, shall state his name and whether he is a
pastor or lay delegate. He shall also state the name of
his district or of the administrative unit (board, faculty)
he represents.

_'The two-minute rule shall apply for all who speak from
the floor and for the committee.

_ While any voting delegate may call the question at any
time, after every 30 minutes of debate on any one mo-
tion there shall be an automatic call of the question by
the chair.

6. Instead of only a voice vote on motions before the con-

vention, the chair shall ordinarily also call for the rais-
ing of the right hand.

7. If a substitute motion is offered, the convention shall

first decide by majority vote whether or not to consider
the substitute. If the decision is in the affirmative and
the substitute motion is adopted, the original motion
falls; if the substitute motion does not receive favorable
action either to consider or to adopt, the original motion
is again before the house. (This is the so-called Behn-
ken rule for dealing with substitute motions.)

_In the sessions of the last two days the President shall
have the privilege of calling up for action resolutions

Nominating Election Ballots
Ballot (1) (2) (3)

Schluckbier, Dale ....-.-----++++0> 38
Schneider, David .....---+-+++++++> 59
Senechel, Roland ......------+--+-- 52
Sorenson, Glenn .....------++2+000° 161 261 191
Streck, Kenneth .......----+-+--+7> 38
Stueve, John .....-.-----+-e e250 0ee 63
Stueve, Melvin .....------++e5re00° 53
Thurston, Jody .....-----+-+2-800e- 50
Timm, Reuben .....--------+- +05 07+ 116 187
Wallace, Rose ....-----++-se00 ttt 142 224
Wildermoth, Walter .....--------++- 46

* Wipperman, A. H. .....-----.+++7°> 282 500
Wolfsmith, Thomas ...--.-------+-> 34
Zupfer, Gloria ....-----2++++errt0o 100 184

which in his judgment must be acted upon by the con-

vention before adjournment.

9. Resolutions prepared by the floor committees which are
not acted upon by the convention before adjournment
die. The subject matter may be reintroduced at the next
convention by means of an overture.

10. Minutes shall be distributed every morning in Today’s
Business. The first item of business in the afternoon
session shall be the formal approval of these minutes.
However, at that time only corrections involving con-
vention action shall be offered from the floor for con-
sideration. Simple editorial corrections involving, for
example, misspelling of names and faulty titles and
references shall be sumitted in writing to the Secretary
for incorporation in the minutes after verification.

11. The preface, preamble, and whereas sections shall be
considered an integral part of the resolution or over-
ture, and as such subject to the same serious consid-
eration and adoption in all its parts as the main motion
itself.

12. Unless covered by these standing rules of the conven-
tion, parliamentary procedure shall be governed by the
latest edition of Robert’s Rules of Order.

(Before adopting the standing rules, delegates agreed to add
the words “and for the committee” to rule 4. They also agreed to
strike a proposed rule 8, which stated, “Questions of privilege
shall be addressed in writing to the chair, or its appointee, instead
of consuming convention time.” They declined, however, a pro-
posal to add the words, “and whether he is a pastor or lay dele-
gate,” at the end of the first sentence of rule 3. Prior to introducing
the proposed standing rules the Secretary had changed the final
words of rule 12. The original words were, “... Robert's Rules of
Order, newly revised (1970 edition). Because of the deletion of
proposed rule 8 the total number of standing rules was 12 rather
than the original 13.)