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."
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WEST CDRST RIRLIHES '
nssia Said To Be on Brink Of Putting Man Into Space
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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. "And
wey an nave tne same names
Ronnie and Donnie Martin,
Ronnie and Donnie Miller
and Ronnie and Donnie
Kahlmbach."
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