Complex sentence: All new candidates must be proposed by an existing member before election in a secret ballot, the original assurance of the committee being "that it would be better that ten unobjectionable men should be excluded than one terrible bore should be admitted".
Split into simpler sentences: All new candidates must be proposed by an existing member before election in a secret ballot. The original assurance of the committee being "that it would be better that ten unobjectionable men should be excluded than one terrible bore should be admitted".