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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORH. SrATEHOOSE f SPECIAL The key bill before the Ore gon Legislature has passed the Senate by a cliff-hanging one vote margin and is now in the House, This is Senate Bill 334-the "Three-Way Bill" which pro vides for three ways to insur? workers against industrial ac cidents: the present coverage under the State Industrial Ac cident Commission, self-insurance by industrial firms, and coverage provided by private insurance companies. Why is this one bill so im portant, when there are many other bills dealing with taxa tion, education, government reorganization, legislative re apportionment, etc., which would seem to be so much more important to all of the people of Oregon? 1 To ! some observers the Three-Way Bill is what the 1961 Legislature is all about. Lobbyists Busy LODDyists tor insurance companies and the Associated Oregon Industries group prob acy are spending more money, time and effort to get this bill passed than any other piece of legislation this year. This bill could mean mil lions of dollars in profits for the insurance companies. The Three-Way Bill is one of the Big Three financial issues in this session, the other two being the timber tax propos als and the proposal to reduce the weight-mile tax for the big truckers. (The timber tax bills involve millions for the giants of the forest industries-Wey-erhaueser and Georgia-Pacific - and the weight-mile tax cut would save trucking firms an estimated million dollars.) . Sponsors of the Three-Way Bill include some of Oregon's most experienced and tough est politicians, notably Sen. Walter Pearson (D-Portland). They want very badly to see the bill passed, and they play lor keeps. Observers are now watching to see to what lengths the Three -Way Bill supporters will go to get the bill through the House and onto the gov ernor's desk for signature (Gov. Mark Hatfield, who has indicated he is not in favor of the Three-Way Bill, has not said he would veto it. Chances are he will sign if it passes both Houses.) Fait of Strategy Since planning by lobbyists for the Three-Way Bill got underway more than a year ago, there is a suspicion in some quarters that Sen. Pear- Son's maneuvering to get his candidate, Sen. Harry Boivin (D-Klamath Falls) elected as president of the Senate was only a part of the over - all strategy in behalf of the Three-Way Bill. Is so, the strategy has work ed so far. Boivin, by appointing Pear son chairman of the Senate State and Federal Affairs Committee and shunting much of the other important legisla tion to this committee, has en abled Pearson to boss the Sen ate pretty much as he pleased. The closeness of the Senate's vote on the Three-Way (16-14) shows, however, that Pearson isn't as powerful as the effec tiveness of the Conservative Democrat - Republican Senate coalition heretofore has led some to believe. Leader of the Senate opposi tion against the Three-Way Bill was Sen. Alfred Corbett (D-Portland) who ran unsuc cessfully against Boivin for the Senate Presidency and who has anounced his can didacy for Senate President in the 1963 session. If the bill had been defeated in the Senate, this legislative session might have been short e n e d considerably because Pearson, having failed in his big project, probably would have been ready to call it quits and go home. Could Die in Committee Now, however, the fight continues in the House, and that is why I said above that SB 334 is the key bill. As long as SB 334 remains in the mill, By Marguerite W. Wright the legislature will stay In session. The Three-Way Bill could be allowed to die in commit tee (House Labor and In dustries Committee headed by Rep. W. O. "Bun" Kelsay, D Roseburg), never reaching the House floor. But there is increasing pres sure on committee chairmen, House and Senate, to report bills out and onto the floor so that they may be debated there and voted upon forth with. For example, the House State and Federal Affairs Committee passed out the weight-mile truck tax reduc tion bill with a do-pass recom mendation but one of the com mittee members - Rep. Carrol Howe (R - Klamath Falls) -voted in committee for the bill only to give the House a chance to debate and vote on the floor, reserving for him self the right to speak and vote against the bill on the House floor.) The decision of whether to I let the Three-Way Bill die is largely up to House Speaker Robert B. Duncan (D-Med-ford). And that decision involves many considerations besides the relative merits of the Three-Way Bill itself. It involves bare-knuckled power politics among those who know what makes the world go 'round, separating the men from the boys, the professionals from the ama teurs. It involves much of the oth er important legislation which actually is not even remotely connected to workmen's compensation. Process Illustrated . It illustrates, in a nutshell, the realities and complexities of the lawmaking process in the deliberative and represen tative body which is the 51st Legislative Assembly. It shows how government of, by and for the people works when you look inside the inspiring smooth white marble exterior to see the clanking machinery, the grinding- exceedingly-fine wheels, the fuel tanks and the oil pans. And something more: it helps to strip away the super fluities and reveal how im pressively difficult the job of legislative leadership can be. The problem for the SpeaK er is no simple matter of de termining how he personally feels about the Three-Way Bill. Suppose Boivin and Pear son lay down an ultimatum to Duncan, threatening to kill off in the Senate any House legislation which House mem bers seriously want to become law, unless Duncan facilitates passage of the Three-Way Bill? In Lap of Gods While the bill is still in committee, its fate is in the hands of the committee chair man and the Speaker. Once sprung out, its fate is in the l.-.D of the gods, witn House supporters of the bill having slim but nevertheless real chance to stir up a good de bate and a favorable final vote. So the problem for Duncan becomes the delicate matter of determining which, if any, House legislation is worth bleeding and dying for. When it comes down to trading, Duncan has one big advantage: the Senate leader ship wants the Three-Way Bill lot more than the House leadership wants anything. Furthermore, Duncan has a reputation for being adverse to trading votes on the grounds that vote-trading is the way bad legislation gets enacted into law. He has stat ed often that each bill should : stand on its own merits. If Duncan is opposed to the j Three-Way Bill as it is pass-' ed the Senate (and he appears -to be, although he favors oth- j er amendments to the present workmen's compensation law), I any efforts by senators to use the vote-trading lever with him seemed doomed to failure. Considering the complexion of the Senate, House leaders see little hope of getting much significant legislation through this session, anyway. But some individual House mem bers, with favorite pieces of legislation they want to get through the Senate, may be more vulnerable to the vote trading sales talk. Also, of course, there are a number of members who already fa vor the Three-Way Bill. Can Reward Friends Besides the time - honored practice of trading, one little known means of exerting force is the authority of the House and Senate presiding officers to appoint members to legislative interim commit tees, including such statutory committees as Interstate Co operation, Emergency Board, Legislative Fiscal, etc. Ap pointment to some of these is much sought-after, carrying such fringe benefits as ex pense-paid junkets. Obviously, a presiding officer can re ward his friends and chastize his enemies thusly. Meanwhile, lobbyists for the Three-Way Bill undoubt edly now will redouble their efforts. Indications are they will put to use their dossier of personal information about legislators, and begin to apply pressure in the more sensitive areas such as lawmakers hometown where he makes his livelihood. Legislative leaders of both parties and individual mem bers can expect the screws to tighten on their thumbs during the next two weeks. TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1961 Salem Hiker in !owa En Route 1 To Saudi Arabia Des Moines, Iowa - (UPD - A 45-year-old hiker in search of a job marched through Cen tral Iowa today on his way from Oregon toward the oil fields of Saudi Arabia. Harry Johnson of Salem, Ore., left the Pacific Coast Jan. 14 and headed toward the oil fields where he worked as a plant guard from 1949 to 1953. He said he wanted his old job back. After a 50-mile practice hike, Johnson began his trans continental trek. He said he averages 3.7 miles an hour on the road and has slimmed down from 165 to 145 pounds. Stops for Work Johnson left Florence, Ore., with $62 and stops for a day or two now and then to work at various jobs. He refused offers of rides. Johnson said when he ar rives at the Atlantic coast he hopes to line up some kind of transportation to Arabia. In his 9-pound pack, John son carried two bottles of Pacific Ocean water. He said he will present one to Mayor Robert Wagner of New York and the other to the King of Saudi Arabia. Washington (UPD The De fense Department Monday or dered 250 physicians drafted into the Air Force, the first medical draft in four years. It said the draft was neces sary because of the "failure of the year's intern group to volunteer for active duty be ginning in July, 1961, in suf ficient requirements of the military medical service." BARKER'S EXTENDED CREDIT PLAN . . . If you don't care to pay your bill in full within 30 days, you can: Pay 15 of your orig inal balance each 30 days, or of your new balance if it's greater. Service charges of 15c for each $10 or por tion thereof will be added by us on the 25th of the month. Payments must be $5 or more per month and your balance over $20 for the plan to be in use. MEN'S CLOTHING Main and Central IUCR. 1 I "Fast growing with the West ' I PORTLAND-SEATTLE F-27 Prop-Jets $CO60 Jl Plus Tax Call SPrlng 2-7269 or your travel agent. WEST CDRST RIRLIHES ' nssia Said To Be on Brink Of Putting Man Into Space SPOW (UPDTho VlPa ni-tici. I . A a tnnA ennn. 1 Tl. nnnrInn... ..i :J. t ir.fl! .; . .. .... . . Moscow-IUPD-The vice presi-1 At a press conference spon dent of the Soviet Academy : sored by the academy today, of Sciences today confirmed ' prominent Soviet scientists reports of other Russian ; said all technical problems for scientists that the Soviet : a manned flight have been Union is on the brink of put-1 whipped but some bioloeical ting a man into space. And another scientist, Nor air Sisokian, said Russia has solved the problem of creat ing safe conditions for a hu man within a space cabin. details are still to be solved, They concluded that living organisms are not vitally af fected if spaceships circle earth in orbits below its heavy radiation belts. The academy vice president Aleksandr Topchiyev, said the time is close for man's first space flight. Sisokian said, "Technically, man could have been flown into space last year." Neither would predict more specifically just when the long-awaited venture could be expected. Sisokian and academician Vasili Parin said studies of animals in previous flights showed Soviet spaceships are built to maintain normal con ditions for living organisms in outer space. They cited the pulse and heartbeat of the animals, plus temperatures, air pressures and humidity in the spaceships during orbit. Dogs and biological matter successfully returned from re cent space flights were dis played for Soviet and foreign press representatives at the conference. DIRTY FOGS Boston - Because of soot and dirt in the air, fogs over cities generally last longer and are more dense than those which occur in the open country. Kerrville, Tex. (UPD R o y Sinclair, player agent for the Kerrville Little League, fig. ures umpires are going to have fits this baseball season. "We've got three sets of twins this year," he said. 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