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uncan Discusses Special Sesiioi
(Editor's noti Th lollop- ,nmUte& "before It could re-
Ing artcle by Stal;l?p.rgfiai? tCeir the further Consideration
tire Robert Duncan dj$eujje
the special session, Kfh3t It
k attempting to (gpcomgljs).
BfROBERT
Most everyone has reaJ id lira
news releases from Salem iforr
thing of the problemsand th
progress of the Spwiar Session
of the Legislature. We hae tried
to attack the basic problem 'lor
which the session was called,
solve it and adjourn.
This requires us togpostpone
consideration of other problems
until the next general session
and, regretfully, we are doing
so. To open the doors to feneral
legislation would soon convert
the special session into a gener
al one of interminable and in
tolerable length. The number of
requests for legislation points up
the fact that Oregon is rapidly
getting to the point where they
must have an annual session. In
addition to this, the magnitude
of the problems and the time
and study required for their in
telligent solution makes it ap
parent that the days of the part
time legislature are also number
ed. Only three committees were
appointed in the House. Taxa
tion. Rules and Ways and Means.
I was appointed vice-chairman of
the latter. '
Special Rule
A special rule was adopted to
provide that all bills introduced
must be approved by the rules
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C "t&a He usa. This is a seif im
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sessioa from considering all
types of legislation; to Jfcee it
a "special session."
hs ruia follows the pattern
la special sessions end
ig ttiucfc iess stringent hfin tot
rule forc in the Cottgress, in
man? ct&er state legiola.Ui.res
ni (A ejr own regular sessions
ftgfc Vb SSUt ia?. Although
thfr is a inaiority of Democrats
on Rules, most of tf! fcills which
havg befcn gasstel out fiavjt been
Republican sponsored measures!.
Itt:tiorS) vsJU6i fe(r from
arbitrary.
Bills Introduced
CAs soon as the Governor's mes
sage had beerjrj received, bills
were introduced to implement
his program and were in the
hands of the proper (xtoimittees
without delay. Together with
other proposals they were con
sidered and reported back to
the House on Wednesday. We
hoped to consider them immed
iately so that the business of the
session could be concluded as
soon as possible, but an attempt
to suspend the rules for that
purpose failed and they were
not debated and passed until
Thursday.
They were then sent to the
Senate where most of the oppo
sition to the Governor's program
is centered. The increase in ba-
Ag Council Needed,
Steward Tells Board
Salem (UT Oregon should
have an agriculture council to
deal with freight rates and sim
ilar economic problems, Agricul
ture Director Robert Steward
told a meeting of the agricul
ture board here Friday.
The board said it felt a coun
cil could effectively work on
problems of tariff, state and
federal taxes on agricultural bus
iness, marketing research, con
sumer education, promotion of
Oregon products and other prob
lems. It was the feeling of the board
that the existing Oregon re
search and advisory council,
compos! of 26 independent pro
ducer and processor groups,
might be able to function as an
agriculture council.
Until now, the existing coun
cil has worked exclusively on
research problems.
Chicago (IP) Patrolman
Charles Mueller arrested James
Davis, 22, for not having license
plates on his car, took a second
look at Davis to discover he was
wearing a sports coat stolen from
Mueller's car last year.
sle school support was prompt
ly approved by toe committee
and will be considered by to
Senate on Monday. The income
tas reduction bill is still in com
mittee , in toe Senate and will
be considered in amended form
hf them en Monday.
Until to Senate sets the
House had no more business and
so adjourned until Monday.
Some members objected to the
adjournment but there -was no
reason to meet end adjourn with
nothing te consider. During tht
rftceSqj wieny interim committees
had an opportunity to meet and
consider the problem assigned
to them.
I thinfc everyone in the legis
lature is agreed that tax relief
is possible and desirable. The
differences arise in determining
how much and how to do it.
The state, has not collected a
real property tax for many years
so reel property tax relief can
not be granted directly by the
state. It can be accomplished
only by the state assuming a
burden otherwise carried by a
local unit of government and
financed by a tax on real prop
erty. All of us remember the tre
mondoug sentiment during the
Aloft ef of fact
By Stewart Alsop
EXIT feTIGHT
Washington There is an ex
cellent chance that the Republi
can political picture will very
soon be changed in a roost im
portant way, by the. withdrawal
of Gov. Goodwin Knight of Cali
fornia as axandidate for renomi
nation. Knight
V? ft
H-A,?,..SfFi.
Stewait Alsop
would thus
leave the field
c o m p letely
free for Sen.
William
Knowland, a
leading candi
date for the
1960 Republi
can presiden
P res iden
t i a 1 nomina
tion.
If Knight withdraws, - he will
try for the Senatorial nomina
tion instead. Knight has repeat
edly said, of course, that he will
not withdraw in favor of Know
land. He hjr$ not yet flatly com
mitted himself to do so. But the
pressure on him to bow out is
very heavy and those who
should know are convinced that
Knight's withdrawal is almost
certainly imminent.
There are two cogent reasons
why Knight is under such heavy
pressure to withdraw from the
gubernatorial race. One is the
simple fact that, it has become
clear to every leading Republi
can in California that, if Knight
does not withdraw from the
race with Knowland, the re
sulting donnybrook may tear
the California party to shreds.
KNIGHT, by taking a liberal
, and pro-labor, position, is
forcing Knowland, by the inex
orable laws of politics, to take
a far more conservative position
than he might otherwise have
done. Kijpwland is contering his
campaign on a "right to work"
bill outlawing the closed shop.
In terms of beating Knight for
the nomination, this is good poli
tics, since anti-closed shop legis-
lation0iscpopular among Repub
lican voters by a margin of
kfive to one, according to some
soundings.
VTET in terms of o the election,
-Kngwland's stand may not be
good politics at all, in a state
with a heavy labor vote and a
big majority of registered Dem
ocrats. Moreover, a bitter prim
ary contest between Knight and
Knowland, lasting for months,
could only do the Republican
cause in California the maxi
mum of harm. Thus influential
Republican leaders in California
are doing everything they can
to persuade Knight to withdraw
from the gubernatorial race and
iun for the Senate instead.
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rpHERE is another reason why
- the pressure on Knight to
withdraw is so heavy the
simple fact that current indica
tions are that Knowland would
win the primary contest hands
down. Knowland will have the
support of Vice-President Rich
ard Nixon, and most of the Nix
on organization (although Nixon
will almost certainly make it
clear that he does not agree
with Knowland on the closed
shop issue). Knowland will also
have the support of most of the
press, which is particularly in
fluential in California, and cur
rent polls show Knowland beat
ing Knight easily in the pri
mary. The role of Nixon in the situ
ation has beerD interesting.
Knowland is, of course, Nixon's
leading rival for the 1960 Pres
idential nomination. Thus it
might be supposed that it was
in Nixon's interest to permit
Knowland and Knight to fight
it out, perhaps destroying each
other an the process. But Nixon
has not only made it clear that
he intends to support Knowland,
he has also been instrumental
in the attempt to persuade
Knight to change hie mind and
rug, for the Senate.
Nixon if not, of course, per
sonally close to Knight on
the eontrary, Knight has never
roade any bones about his al
most pathological dislike of
Nixon. Yet come of Xixon'e
supporters, especially in north
ern California, have also been
Knight supporters. And these
Nixon men have been among
those trying to persuade Knight
to withdraw.
P . '
THE explanation for th role
Nixon has glayed i simple
enough. For one thing, he ad
mires Knowland, althoughQthe
two are not close friends, nd
thinks he would make good
Cl Governor. For another thing.
Nixon is a thorough-going party
man, and he is quita aware of
what an all-out battle between
-Knight and Knowland might
do to the Republican party in
California.
Finally, he is al wgre that
a severe weakening of the psjrty
in his home state would do his
own political fortunes no good
whatever, even if Knowlaad
might also be weafned in the
process. Knigft's withdrawal
will tit coursa greatly strength
en Knowland' chance to chal
lenge Nixon for the 186(Pnomin-
ation fromJl position of great
political strength. Yet there has
been no deal between Knowland
and Nixon. And there has been
no deal beteyefn Xnowljnd and
Knight. o
Vht hs happened far
simpler. It has become daily
clearer that laigkt's -Vithdraw-al
Would ba ia the interacts of
all concernad. It in Knoa
land's interest for obvious rea
son. It is in Nixon's interest
because a bitter primary fight
would weaken his home baae.
It is in Knight's interest be
cause he otherwise faces the
likely prospect of a defeat
which would sink him political
ly forever. These are the basic
reasons whj it is highly prob
able that Knight will bow out of
the Governorship race in the
near future.
(c) 1957 New York Herald
Tribune Inc.
regular eesaion to increase basic'
school support to fciao. .t tht
time revenue estimates wre
such thst e felt that tt could
not prudently vote moreotnan
a S19 increase maltina the total
State aid 93 per census child.
ine bill requested by the Gov
ernor ajid approved by the
House increases this by 910 to
S109, another significant step to
ward the goal of many people
that the state should provide
half, of th cost of educating the
childrert
This furnishes realy property
tax relief because every dollar
of state suDDort means one less
dollar thai must be raised from
real property for we all know
that we musfc educate our chil
dren and that it will cost money.
About 80 per cent of the in
crease will so to dirert. rrnrp-tv
tax offset according to the best
figures I have been able to ob
tain but all of it reallv renre-
sents money that will support
tne school, and thus relieve real
property of that burden.
Belton's Proposal
Sen. Belton's proposal for the
state to assume the county school
levy would not help Jackson
county at all in any year, such
as this, in which we did not levy
any tax. It was for these rea
sons thaf I supported the in
crease in basic school support.
In the income tax field the
Governor askpri for a in npr
cent cut and such was approvedifi
mates of revenue are correct this
coupled with the basic school
bill, will leave a surplus of about
S51 million at the end of thje
biennium and should enable us
to finance the 1959-61 biennium
with no further Increase in tax
es. The citizens of the state could
look forward to a state income
tax below the 1955 level for at
least the next three years. This
is important when we consider
that the state is still growing,
f Iggsslature
and that, without fcny neg(g(ate
prjDramiR the cost o0th? pres
ent level of state servicers) will
cgntinue to increase.
EBtimatad Budget
It isdestimated thithe budget
fd? the 1959-61 biennium will be
somewhere between $300 and
$330 million even if no new pro
grams are approved. Planning
that far into the future with
a lower tax than prior to the '55
legislature sms to me to be
a real accomplishment.
Should the Republican propo
sals for income tax rSjiction
prevail, some $60 million will
not be collected. We would end
the bienniunv on June 30, 1959,
with about TiO million. If the
same tax rates are maintained
and the budget estimates- men
tioned above prove correct we
would end the 1959-61 biennium
with a deficit of $65 to $70 mil
lion. The only alternative would
be a drastic increase in taxes
during the next biennium that
would make the surtaxes of the
past look like tax relief.
One other factor to consider
is that the so lulled surplus is
merely an estimate of how much
the revenue of the state will ex
ceed the expenditures during
the remainder of the biennium.
The money is not piled up in
some vault. Estimated have been
wrong before.
Industry in Trouble
The lumber industry in Ore-
on is in trouble perhaps be
cause the hard money policy in
Washington, adopted to halt in
flation, has gone too far and, in
Oregon at least, the medicine is
proving worse than the disease.
Because we have been content
to rely on a one industry econ
omy, we now have ltitle other
industry to pick up the slack
and furnish employment.
Oifr greatest natural resource,
water, has not been developed as
it should have been to furnish
large blocks of low cost power
that might have made the Pa
cific Northwest the center of T
great electrometalurgical in
(3ptry even now able to furnish
employment to large numbers
of men. We have gotten so con
cerned over ether the pow
er should be public or private
that we have lost sight of the
goal which is power. TVA, Bon
neville and Grand Coulee all
were opposed and violently. Yet
all have contributed greatly to
our economic well being and our
military success in World War
II.
Economy Not Healthy
However, that may be, it is
still true that our economy is
not as healthy as it has been
and that the estimates of reven
ues may never "materialize. I
for one lo not intend to vote for
huge tax reductions, no matter
how popular that might be po
litically, when I can see just
over the horizon the spectre of
either a deficit or an even larg
er tax increase. Neither do I
think that is what the people
of this state want.
Whfch brings up the fact tfcat
very few people have written
to express their views on these
subjects. May I invite your com
ments. It is difficult to repre
sent you if I do not have the
benefit of your advice. My ad
dress is Robert Duncan, House
of Representatives, Salem, Ore.
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