# LCMS Convention Proceedings_St. Louis Missouri_1975_S52
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

MINUTES OF THE CONVENTION

LAYPERSON (4 yr.) Vote
Ballots cast, 787
Goerl, Arno E. (Brazil). 350
*Schelp, H. (Brazil). 437
Board of Control — Sao Leopoldo, Brazil
LAYPERSONS
Ballots cast, 985
*Liechti, Herbert (Brazil)... _ 592
Zimmer, Remi Jorge (Brazil) _____ 393

Special Standing Rules

(These rules were adopted in the first session. Later the

convention resolved that these rules shall also serve as the
temporary rules of the next convention.)

1.

i)

The President shall present in Today’s Business the
agenda of business to come before the convention in
the sessions of that day, and the approximate time
slots. The chair shall see that this agenda is followed
as closely as possible.

. Resolutions of each floor committee shall be prioritiz-

ed by number and shall normally be presented in the
numerical sequence published in Today’s Business.

. Each member of the convention, when recognized by

the chair, shall state his name. He shall also state
the name of his District or of the administrative unit
(board, faculty) he represents.

. The 2-minute rule shall apply for all who speak from

the floor.

. While any voting delegate may call the question at

any time, after every 30 minutes of debate on any
one motion there shall be an automatic call of the
question by the chair.

. Instead of a voice vote on motions before the conven-

tion, the chair shall ordinarily call for the raising of
the right hand. (During the discussion of this rule
it was agreed that both methods would be employed).

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

10.

11.

12.

first decide by majority vote whether or not to consi-
der the substitute. If the decision is in the affirma-
tive and the substitute motion is adopted, the origi-
nal 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 “Behnken rule” for dealing
with substitute motions.)

- Questions of privilege shall be addressed in writing

to the chair, or its appointee, instead of consuming
convention time.

. In the sessions of the last 2 days the President shall

have the privilege of calling up for action resolutions
which in his judgment must be acted upon by the
convention before adjournment.

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

Minutes shall be distributed every morning in To-
day’s Business. The first item of business in the
afternoon session shall be the formal approval of
these minutes. However, at that time only correc-
tions involving convention action shall be offered
from the floor for consideration. Simple editorial
corrections involving, for example, misspelling of
names and faulty titles and references shall be sub-
mitted in writing to the Secretary for incorporation
in the minutes after verification. (This standing rule
was introduced during the Milwaukee convention and
was adopted also for the New Orleans convention.)

Unless covered by these standing rules of the conven-
tion, parliamentary procedure shall be governed by

. Roberts Rules of Order, newly revised (1970 edition).