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Page 4A EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Sunday. Jan. 8, 1963 JFK Needs QOP Votes in Legislative Program EDITOR'S NOTE Con gress comes back to Wash ington on Wednesday and the big question is how it will treat President Kennedy's cherished proposals in 1963. In this story a veteran Wash ington correspondent, the head of the Associated Press Senate staff, points out why the President will need some Re publican help as well as Dem ocratic. By JACK BELL Of thi Associated Press WASHINGTON President Kennedy apparently is going to have to depend on Republican votes if the bard-core issues of his legislative program are to get through the question-mark 88th Congress. Although the Republicans have lost a net of three scats in the Senate and gained only two in the House in the new Con gress, they retain what are likely to be the deciding votes on the fate of major domestic proposals the President is ex pected to make. In foreign policy and defense matters, Kennedy obviously will continue in the last two years of his first term to enjoy the same kind of bipartisan support he was able to rally around him on critical issues In his first two years. This doesn't mean, of course, that Republicans will accept silently all his decisions and actions in the Cuban crisis, even though he won what was widely acclaimed as a victory over Soviet Premier Niklta Khrushchev in forcing the with drawal of Russian missiles and bombers from the island. Close Examination Kennedy's policy on Cuba obviously desiring the over throw of Fidel Castro but hold- TV Trying for EDITOR'S NOTE The telitiisioti camera, long barred from House : of Represen tatives committee sessions in Washington, may soon get a chance to poke its lens in on the doings. Some representa tives, envious of television publicity gained by the Sen nate colleagues, are teaming up with the television indus try in an effort to end the camera ban. By JOHN BECKLER Of the Associated Press WASHINGTON Television is making a strong bid these days to win acceptance in one of the few houses in America where it is still barred the U.S. House of Representatives. Through a drumfire of public statements and through private talks with house leaders tho in dustry is seeking permission to focus its cameras on actual ses sions of House committee hear ings. It finds it Illogical, not to say Square Dance Classes Set The Wlllamalane Park District next wc : will start square dances for adults and grade school age children. Adult. beginner classes will be offered on Mondays from 8 to 10 p.m., beginning next Mon day. Cost of the class is 73-cents per couple per evening. Mr. and Mrs. William Cyphert will in struct. Junior intermediate classes for elementary boys and girls who have completed a begin ner's class will be held on Wednesdays from 8 to 9 p.m. beginning next Wednesday. Cost is 25 cents per person for in district students and 35 cents for those residing outside the district. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hell will instruct. Both classes will be at the Memorial Bldg., Eighth and North A streets in Springfield Registration should be made the first class night. 1 jfW Sen. Mike Mansfield ing a tight rein on any invasion attempt will come under ex amination in Congress. So also will his support of United Na tions attempts to force Katanga back into union with the Congo. Kennedy and Congress may have it out on the issue of the cancellation of the Skybolt mis sile. But here the President has the upper hand. Congress can vote funds to continue the pro gram, but it can't force Ken nedy to spend them. It is in the field of purely domestic matters, however, that the President is going to have to rely on Republicans to supply critical votes, No Rayburn Now Nowhere is this better ex emplified than Jn his attempt to prevent the shrinkage of the House Rules Committee from 15 members In the 87th Con gress back to the 12 level where a conservative coalition would have iron-clad control over which presidential pro posals would reach the House for a vote. The committee was boosted intolerable, to be denied a priv ilege now extended to other news media. It particularly cites the uneven treatment reflected by the fact that telecasting has long been permitted on the Senate side of the Capitol. A good many House members, too, hunger for the Instant pub licity of a televised hearing. They envy senators who have had easy access into the homes of their constituents through such spectaculars as the crime hearings of Sen. Estes Kefau- vcr, D-Tenn., tho labor racket hearings of Sen. John L. Mc- Clellan, D-Ark. and the dramatic clash between the U.S. Army and the late Sen. Joseph Mc Carthy, R-Wls. What television has been up against in the House is the stern opposition of the late Speaker Sam Rayburn, D-Texas. This, because of Rayburn's immense prestige, has assumed the aura of tradition since his death in 1961. When Speaker John W. Mc- Cormack, D-Mass., in his first days as Rayburn s successor last session, was asked to authorize live television of committee pro ceedings, he disposed of the matter simply by stating: 'The chair thinks that Mr. Speaker Rayburn's opinions were well considered and the chair intends to follow those opinions until such time as the House . . . provides for a dif ferent method of proceeding. Tho Rayburn opinions that McCormack referred to were handed down in 1992 and 19S3 in response to formal requests by members for a ruling on the authority of House committees to let their sessions be tele vised. On each occasion Rayburn held, in essence, that tho rules of the House arc the rules of its committees; the rules of the House do not authorize tele vising of its proceedings, there fore the rules of the committees don't cither. In making such a ruling, cs. pecially in 1955, Rayburn ap parently took little notice of two points raised by members Credit Dentistry to Fit Your NAMf YOUS OWN Tf RMS WITHIN REASON... No Advance Appointment Needed NO INTEREST CHARGES "SEEJIEBT? -SCMlfR DENTAL CLINIC 8th & WILLAMETTE EUGENE Phone Dl 5-8734 Otbvr off! ess also In Sslsra and Ponund to IS two years ago by a 217-212 vote in which 22 Republicans supplied the administration with its victory. Only 18 of those Re publicans are back this year. The administration needs all of them and more because its 1982 strength among Southern Democrats now is more suspect than usual. It does not have the late Speaker Sam Rayburn to wheel and deal for its cause. As an example, it does not now know how many of 14 Texas Demo crats who voted for committee enlargement in 1861 can be counted on to gt along now that there is no Rayburn to persuade them. Republicans are not expected to make a party issue of the rules committee fight. There resides in the minds of some members the suspicion that the GOP would like to make it close but lose. The party then would escape responsibility for what happens to the program. Kennedy has jumped into the house fight with both feet. He has laid his prestige on the line with some strong declarations such as "we are through if we lose" in the effort to clear the track there for his program Some members of Congress don't agree with his dire predic tion that his program would be emasculated by a 12-man com mittee. Others think that even if the President gets a 15-mem-ber group, he still will face stormy sailing with controver sial proposals. Vocal Chords Tuned In direct contrast to his in volvement in the House, Ken nedy thus far has kept hands off the bubbling issue of a change in Senate rules. This threatens to start the Senate on its way with one of those time consuming filibusters that de Look Into House Committees Rep. John McCormack pressing for televised hearings, namely: That the Houso rules are merely silent on tho question; if they don t authorize televis ing of sessions, neither do they prohibit it. That under the same rules House committees were permit ted to televise their session in the 1953-54 session by Speaker Joseph Martin, R-Mass., and many did so. But the fact is, neither Kay- Savings Bond Sales Down WASHINGTON Ufi Sales of E and It Savings Bonds de clined but the cash value of all such bonds owned by Ameri cans advanced a billion dollars last year, tho Treasury reports. Cash sales for 1962 amounted to $4.28 billion, 5.7 per cent un der 1961. Total E and H bond investment for the year, count ing accrued interest, was $5.65 billion. The total for 1961 was $5.83 billion. At the year's end, the cash value of all outstanding bonds in both series stood at just un der $45.5 billion, a record and up a billion from 1961. Bonds worth $464 billion, including $754 million in interest on E bonds, were redeemed during the year. Budget! FREE PARKING Any Lot on the SEMLEB Plan jNO CASfTX t : DOWN Vsi Monthly Payments y pict the law-making process at its argumentative worst A bipartisan group of sena tors has announced an attempt will be made to change the present rule which requires a two-thirds majority of those voting to cut off debate. They want to substitute a bare ma jority for this. If it got the chance, the Sen ate might agree to permit three. fifths of those voting to curb debate. But Southern opponents already have tuned up their vocal chords for talk that could last several weeks. The attitude of Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Moo tana is that the Senate hasn't got much to do at the start of the session anyway, so this may be a good time to let the talk go on. The House, in fact, will have to face up first to some of Ken' nedy's major legislative pro posals because they involve rev- enue matters which can origi nate only in that body. The President, wise in the ways of legislative procedure from his experience in both the House and Senate, already has started compromise maneuvers in an effort to get the individual and business income tax reduc tions he considers essential to keep the economy moving and avoid a rise in unemployment, GOP Serves Notice Instead of making the tax re duction retroactive to Jan. 1 as he first proposed, Kennedy now plans a stp-by-step reduc tion that could run from $5 bil lion to $10 billion. He wants it linked with tax law revisions that would close some loopholes. At best it will take months of bargaining and trading to get any tax bill passed. Congression al Republicans already have served notice they will oppose any cuts that ,are not accom burn nor the pro-television members have ever based their stands merely on the House rules. Rayburn, who entered the House in 1913 and served as its speaker longer than any other man, felt the strong pull of its history in his bones, and found abhorrent the suggestion that lights, cameras and other trap pings of television invade its honored halls and turn its de liberations into some kind of a show. Rep. George Meader, R- Mich., who has been trying for 10 years to open House Hear ings to television, summed up what may be the majority view of House members when he said the other day: I think tho power of the House has been adversely af fected by this denial of a means of getting its point of view before the American peo ple. The House has not kept pace with the growth of the country. It should adjust itself to the present day. "After all, the President uses television at his press confer ences to get his side of the story across, and sometimes at tacks Congress. And the Senate has been able to show itself in action. I think the House has mm AlWvfl5Sv?ftl 910 IVY ST. JUNCTION CITY -4 panied by reductions in spend ing. Conservative Democrats, led by Chairman Harry F. Byrd, D Va., of the Senate Finance Com mittee, entertain similar views. This controversy is likely to be heightened when the Presi dent submits a new budget call ing for more than $99 billion in spending for the fiscal year be ginning July 1. Riding piggy back on this budget will be a fat target for congressional ar rows, a prospective minimum $6 billion deficit for the new year. Kennedy will defend the spending increase on the grounds that most of it will go for defense, space and added interest costs on the rising fed' eral debt. He has made strenu ous efforts to pare domestic out lays to prevent the budget total from soaring to the $100-billion level, a round figure critics could bounce about in their in evitable charges that he intends to become the greatest spender in history. If Congress follows the usual script, there will be much fulmi nating about the size of the budget. This will be followed by pearly unanimous voting for tne tremendous arms ana space appropriations the President is asking for. Foreign aid tunas, on the other hand, will be under hot fire. There will be much ado about cutting back civilian spending. This will be followed early next year by the quiet voting of sup plemental money to restore the funds laboriously hacked away in the 1963 session. The result may well be a hair-curling defi cit for the new fiscal year. Same Old Issues Kennedy will be knocking on Congress' doors with some un solved problems. Probably they will be packaged a little more palatably, but fundamentally suffered in getting public ac ceptance because of the ban on television. Meader has introduced reso lutions in previous Congresses amending the House rules to authorize each committee to de cide whether it wants to tele vise its hearings. He has an other one ready to drop into the hopper the day the new ses sion convenes, Although the Rules commit tee will have to approve Mea der's resolution if it is to get to a vote in the House, the key man in the industry's hopes for ending the Rayburn ban is Mc Cormack. There is little likeli hood such a sweeping change in the rules would be adopted without the speaker giving as sent. Leroy Collins, president of Just UlOl a double Dl 22 This Is Our CHAPMAN BROS. Stationery & Office Equipment 1733 Pearl St. NOON These items must Sen. Harry Byrd they will involve te same old. issues. The President asked the pre ceding Congress for a five-year $5.7-billion aid-to-education pro gram, which was not to include help for church or private in' stitutions. Kennedy is not expected to change his position that fed eral outlays for church schools would violate the constitutional concept of separation of church and state. He has no desire to stir anew the religious issue of the 1960 presidential campaign. The 87th Congress came close to compromising Senate-House defferences over federal aid for college classroom construc tion. The 88th may be able to find an acceptable formula for this particular measure. The Senate probably will be willing to vote again to provide aid for secondary schools. Whether such a measure, and a program for assistance to medical and dental schools, ever will get to the House floor may depend on what happens in that body's rules committee. Kennedy will be back with a refurbished proposal to finance the National Assn. of Broadcast ers, has urged McCormack to take a favorable view of the is sue, and the television reporters who cover the House for the networks went to Boston to plead their case with the speak er personally before the Jan. 9 reopening of Congress. Whatever the outcome this session, it seems inevitable that television will triumph some day. As the old patriarchs who have ruled the House this cen tury gradually slip from posi tions of power, the quill pen and snuff box tradition loved by Rayburn is bound to pale. Congress is becoming more and more susceptible to the argument that television is here to stay. - 11 - 8 New Number '"' 6 p.m. be Sold! Drive one . l aK90V -W A X Aft 30 NO DOWN PAYMENT-FREE DELIVERY Drive Over Today! Lower Overhead Means Lower Prices! health care for the elderly through Social Security taxes. He got a body blow in 1962 when the Senate rejected the plan by a 52-48 vote. But the late Sen. Robert S. Kerr, D-Okla., who helped en gineer that administration de feat, will not be around. And the November election made some changes, adding the net of three Democrats in the Sen ate. Pretty Option Clauses The administration feels con fident of Senate approval of a revised medical care measure, prettied up with option clauses favored by some Republicans. But both the House Ways and Means Committee and its rules group represent roadblocks that might be insurmountable for this legislation. Kennedy and his aides are laboring mightily to find some kind of farm program Congress will accept. They feel that al though his 1962 tight controls program was rejected, some progress was made in solving the feed grains price support problem. But dairy supports still pose major difficulties. There seems to be some doubt that the President will revive his proposal for creation of a Department of Urban Affairs, killed emphatically in the 87th Congress. If he docs, Demo cratic leaders will give it an other whirl. But they won't be too surprised if it is defeated. For the cities, Kennedy will offer a mass transportation plan that might get approval in one form or another. For nature lovers, there will be a wilder ness bill, the fate of which will be uncertain. The President is likely to push for youth employment op portunities and for an attack on adult illiteracy. He could sug gest a domestic version of the Peace Corps. If the current longshoremen's strike and New York Newspa pers' strikes last much -longer, particularly after Congress con venes, there are bound to be more and more public demands for stiffer labor laws to deal with big strikes. Variety of Alternatives Kennedy is reported undecid ed at the moment whether to open up the labor legislation Pandora s box," always a high- 'Sx sr. M 1 i BONUS y EXTRA Sif 50 TROUSERS ... 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