Hatfield: congress could end war
By GREG HOWARD
Of the Emerald
On the war issue Republican
Sen. Mark Hatfield claims a
unique fame. “I have voted
against all military ap
propriations since 1969. By the
way, I am the only senator who
has done that,” Hatfield said at a
press conference in the Eugene
Hotel Thursday afternoon.
Sen. Hatfield co-sponsored an
“end-the-war” amendment with
Democratic Sen. George
McGovern in 1970 and 1971. “This
is not a President’s war,” he said.
“It is the Congress’ war. Any
time the present Congress wants
to stop it, it can cut off the two
main sources—manpower and
money.”
Too many people think we are
challenging the White House with
these amendments, but we are
only exercising our Con
stitutional duty and right, Hat
field added.
Speaking of his Republican
colleagues in the Senate, Hatfield
said, “It is much easier to vote
with the President than to think
for one’s self.”
During a recent Senate vote on
military appropriations, he
described his experience of being
the only Republican against its
passage. “When I arrived on the
floor,” he said, “six Republicans
had already voted against the
bill. Later, however, the word
was passed for all Republicans to
support it and the six changed
their votes to yes. When I voted
no, you would have thought that I
just came in from the gym
without taking a shower.
Everybody around me just
turned up their noses and moved
away.”
Although he disagrees with
President Nixon on some issues,
he said, “I have publicly en
dorsed the Committee to Re-elect
the President. But what I do in
the privacy of my voting booth is
my business.”
The incumbent senator said he
agrees with Nixon on certain
issues including strengthening
United States ties with Red China
and the Soviet Union and for
mation of the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA).
Hatfield added, however, "I am
greatly concerned about the
underfunding of the EPA.”
Concerning the use of
marijuana, he said, “I support
decriminalization, but not
legalization. I think a
decriminalization bill would pass
(the Senate) by a slim margin.”
Responding to a report in Field
and Stream magazine which
criticized his stand on en
vironmental issues, Hatfield
enumerated a list of his activities
since he was elected to the State
Legislature in 1951. Among those
cited were the first Oregon air
and water pollution bill,
establishment of the Oregon
Dunes National Recreation area,
endangered species protection,
Clean Air Act, federal noise and
water pollution control, purchase
of the Klamath Indian and Snake
River lands and the creation of
Mt. Jefferson Wilderness and
Minam River drainage area.
Hatfield also said he prevented
the US. Forest Service from
selling portions of the French
Pete Wilderness area. He
presently supports the Falcon
Project which is studying the
feasibility of aerial logging. “I
am convinced that road building
would be disastrous to the area,”
he added.
Although Hatfield indicated
that he remains flexible on the
issue, he said if aerial logging
were found to be impractical, he
would not support the logging of
Sen. Hatfield Ph0'° by James Unk
French Pete.
Under the present Forest
Service plan, no roads can be
built before 1974 and no logging
before 1977.
Commenting on excessive
campaign expenditures, the
Senator said, “It is immoral.”
For his primary and general
election campaign, he said his
committee will spend between
$300,000 and $325,000.
Sen. Hatfield is scheduled to
speak on campus Oct. 18.
Morse vows aid to education
By BRYCE ZABEL
Of the Emerald
Saying he has been “co-sponsor
or sponsor of every major
education bill since 1946,” former
Sen. Wayne Morse vowed to be in
on all other major education bills
if sent back to the U.S. Senate.
Morse was speaking before an
audience of approximately 40
largely composed of educators at
a meeting sponsored by Phi Delta
Kappa at the Clinical Services
building Wednesday night.
After reviewing the progress of
education legislation to date in
the U.S. Senate Morse examined
the present situation. Morse
criticized a Nixon backed
proposal to have students pay the
cost of their own education by
saying it would “close college
doors to tens of thousands of
young men and women.”
'“Students couldn’t and
shouldn't be required” to bear
the entire burden, Morse in
dicated. “We owe them as a
matter of right the opportunity to
develop to the maximum extent
possible the necessary skills
regardless of race, creed, or
economic status.”
Noting that “education was for
the elite in Jefferson’s time”
Morse stated “this is obviously
what Nixon would want.”
Morse also talked about the
subject of funding education.
Nixon has “vetoed three
educational funding bills” along
with a “funding bill for
libraries.” Morse vowed to
“pick upwhere we left off in 1968”
if returned to the Senate. He
predicted the Federal govern
ment would soon put up 50 per
cent of the funds for schooling.
Morse later indicated he would
not return to the Senate as a
“freshman Senator.” He noted
“seniority does not apply to
special committees” while “90
percent of the work is done on
special committees.” Morse
would name Labor and Public
Welfare and Foreign Policy as
his two committee choices. “I’ve
been trying to get rid of seniority
since 1946,” commented Morse.
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