8 Wednesday, February 25, 1978 University Dally Kansan Commission to recommend ways to improve U.S. Senate efficiency By LYNDA SMITH The U.S. Senate appointed a group about six months ago to recommend improvements in its operation. Chancellor Archie R. Dykes is a member of that group, the Commission on the Operation of the Senate. Dykes was appointed to the commission by Sens. Mine Mansfield, D-Mont., and Hugh Scott, R-Penn, the Senate's floor leaders. He was recommended by Sens. James Pearson, R-Kan. and Howard Baker, R-Tenn. Dykes, along with other academicians and politicians on the commission, is charged with recommending ways the commission could be involved. The commission is due to report in the fall. A recent story in the New York Times said the commission wasn't allowed to delve into what the Times called the most opaque part of the committee's jurisdictions and Senate rules. DYKES SAID yesterday that it wasn't the commission's purpose to determine committee jurisdictions and study committee concerns. He said the commission didn't have the expertise to make recommendations in those areas. Bil Wohlford, administrative assistant to Bill. Robert Dole, R-Kan, said, "The commission was expressly prohibited from getting into the committees' jurisdiction." It was prohibited, Wohlford said, because if that stipulation had been added to the bill that created the commission, the bill probably would have failed. "It's a real touchy area of seniority and long established rules," he said. "If they'd (the Senate) have tied this on the com-ming it might have gone down the drain." DOLE SPECIFICALLY asked the Booth for bill on death penalty State Sen. Arden Booth, R-Lawrence, told a meeting of the KU College Republicans last night that he would vote for the death penalty bill that was recommended favorably yesterday by the Kansas Senate Judiciary Committee. Booth said he thought the House and Senate would be able to reach a compromise death penalty bill if both houses pass their respective death penalty bills, although the two bills are quite different. Mr. Obama has also asked Elections Committee, also discussed a proposal to change recall procedures for elected state officials. commission to look into how efficiently senators use their time and the distribution of resources. And that's precisely what the commission is studying. Dykes said. The commission will look into the number of committees senators serve on and how they utilize their time, and ways to free management responsibilities, Dykes said. Dykes said the commission's most important concern was to suggest ways Senators could give appropriate attention to their responsibilities. "There are only some things a Senator can do," Dykes said, "and the commission will attempt to enable Senators to devote themselves to those tasks." Infective use of time is the major flaw in the Senate, Dykes said. Some Senators are on as many as 25 committees, he said, and they are reluctant for them to meet all their obligations. EVEN THOUGH congressional reform has been attempted many times, Dykes said, he thought the commission could help the Senate. A similar commission recommended changes in the House last year, he said, and the House adopted the changes. Although the commission isn't authorized to study Senate rules, some find them to be the most in need of reform. Wohlford gave an example of a rule he didn't like. "A committee can report a bill on the floor before it is printed," Wohlford said. "One copy is provided for each Senator but none for the staff. That perturbates it. My aide told me that she was responsible." Despite the commission's restrictions, it still is charged with making recommendations to improve the internal and external wings of a Senator's office, Dykes said. An agenda issued by the commission's staff director in December 1975 said the commission was to propose changes that would improve the Senate's relationship with the use of Representatives, the executive and judicial branches, the media and lobbies. The relationships involve not only the role of the Senate in the nation at large, but also influence in many ways the Senate's information access to information, the plan said. The plan said the commission's objective wasn't to make recommendations for changes "in values or in power relations." He added that Senators carry out their responsibilities. The commission gathers its information through hearings with Senators and key governmental actors, academics, governmental experts, Congress and representatives of interest groups. The commission then meets to review the material generated by the hearings and recommendations. Dykes said he had attended three of the commission's monthly meetings in New York. 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