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Wednesday, March 8, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Carter's Taft-Hartley committee to hold hearing today on strike
WASHINGTON (AP)—The Carter administration's Tah-Tahirt inquiry board began work yesterday on a report that President Jimmy Carter will use to seek a court order that forces striking coal miners back to work.
BACK UP Officials said Carter expected the report from the three-member board no later than tomorrow. The panel has sent notices to 5,000 United Mine Workers and industry officials notifying them of a hearing today on the strike.
Carter invoked provisions of the Taft- Hartley Act Monday and said the country
could wait no longer for him to act to end the strike, which is entering its 93rd day today.
course, which is entering its 90th day today.
Carter's decision to invoke the law, set
35 times since the administration
of ways to bring about the
penalty of coal production.
Administration officials said they were hopeful that at least some miners would obey the order that asks for their return to a mine where those miners who resisted could use food stamps.
Another measure the Carter administration is considering is the implementation of a new code that defends the
The official, Robert Strauss, special trade negotiator, said that requesting seizure authority from Congress remained an option, although Carter rejected an immediate takeover when he invoked the Taft-Hartley Act.
order, a White House official said yesterday.
"All I have to say with regard to this case is that Ross Doyen is presumed innocent until proven guilty," Schneider said. "I hope his trial will be in the courts instead of in the court."
Arraignment was set for March 20 in Shawnee County District Court.
Arnold Miller, UMW president, said that some miners would order the order but that others would not.
TOPEKA (UPI)-The state yesterday filed criminal charges against Senate President Ross Doyen, R-Coronation, accusing him of withholding 1976 campaign contributions, which caused false campaign finance reports to be filed on his behalf.
Kansas Senate president accused of campaign fraud
Schneider's office has been investigating the case since it was received from the Governmental Ethics Commission in January. The ethics commission had accused Schneider of misleading distributions, totaling $1,225, within five days after he received them.
Doyen said he would make no statement until he consulted his lawyer.
Attorney General Curt Schneider charged Doyen with withholding nine campaign contributions from his campaign treasurer and was arrested for violation of the state's campaign finance act.
Miller also said he would prefer to have miners return to work in government-operated mines rather than under a Taft-Hartley injunction.
A key to Schneider's case is to prove the violations were intentional and to allow prosecution under a section of the statute or under the provisions as a false carnival finance report to be filed.
received all nine contributions before the Nov. 2 general election but did not give them to his treasurer, Lowell Abelidt, until after the election. Because of the delay, the contributions did not appear on his campaign finance report until after the election.
THE ETHICS commission did not deal with the possibility that Doyen might have had criminal intent. Doyen had singed an ethics commission stipulation admitting that he failed to turn in the finance reports and leading ignorance of that section of the law.
Doyen has admitted the commission's contentions but has said he did not know he was required to turn in the contributions within five days.
Few administration officials have been willing to speculate on the seizure of the rimes because they are concerned that the courts will be involved in court injunction ordering them back to work.
Schneider alleged that three campaign reports filed by Doyen were materially false because they either failed to list the contributions when Doyen received them or they listed the contributions arriving after their true date of receipt.
Strauss said that one factor against the seizure option was the administration's uncertainty over the length of time it would get Congress to approve such authority.
From the Kansas's warehouses in Kansas (UKP1)-Utility Missouri have avoided the severe power curtailments facing utilities in the eastern United States after the United Mine Workers' rejection this weekend of a proposed contract.
Canal treaties tested soon
Barring a federal directive to share fuel with needy areas in the eastern part of the country, the effect of the strike in Kansas which receives most of its coal from Wyoming mines that are not affected by the strike, the strike has been slight, a state official said.
been able to thwart efforts to cripple the treaties with amendments, the supporters did not have the required two-thirds majority needed for ratification.
However, utilities in Missouri are awaiting a decision from the state Public Service Commission on standby power curtailment plans.
In Topeka Steve Harris, director of the state energy office, said the strike was having an effect on the state, but not in terms of energy supplies.
From the Konean's Wire Services
'THERE HAUNT has any really dire impact as a result of the coal strike.' Harris said of the industry's support industries, such as Goodyear Tire and Rubber in Topeka, have experienced
The agreement by Byrd and the treaties' opponents just after the Senate, by a 52-40 vote, rejected another proposal by Sen. James Allen, D-Ala.
Kansas avoids power cuts
In Missouri Kansas City Power and Light, which has a three-month supply of coal, has not requested its 300,000 customers to cut coal. But Monday the day it did not expect to issue such a request.
The neutrality treaty that has been the subject of a 21/2-week floor debate will come to a vote March 16. A timetable is to be worked out for a vote on the treaty after the 10-day Easter recess, which begins March 24.
The PSC will consider a request tomorrow from the Missouri Public Service Co. to levy taxes on gasoline costs of purchasing oil and gas to generate electricity. About 90 percent of the company's coal supply comes from mines that are opposed to the strike, a company spokesman said.
GOVERNORS in coal states promised yesterday to maintain order if mines reopened under a Taft-Hartley order invoked by President Jimmy Carter and disliked by many striking miners. Some governors said they would call out the National Guard.
square lappies and cuftakes as a result of the
taxes that are affixed to the back of the
square lappies and cuftakes.
using large amounts of money from state treasuries.
Gov. John Dalton of Virginia declared a state of emergency, said he had sent hundreds of state policemen into coal mining operations, if needed, to troops, if necessary, to prevent violence.
Several governors said that any special protection against violence would mean
He also said he would authorize guardsmen to be equipped with live ammunition. Dalton said that he hoped the guardsmen would not be needed.
"It's an expensive proposition," he said.
WASHINGTON (AP)—Robert C. Byrd, Senate major leader, and opponents of the Panama Canal treaties have decided to block a Senate resolution in a Senate session a week from tomorrow.
"We are intent on seeing in Virginia that anyone who wants to mine and move coal must be in compliance."
But the treaties' opponents said that despite their inability to amend the treaties or to block ratification, they were not conceding defeat.
"It's an expensive proposition," he said.
MEANWHILE, there were indications that many miners still were angry and were ready to continue the strike.
One group kept a vigil over a coal train that they had surrounded Monday night in the hills.
Byrd said that although the opponents had
"We just took a look at it and figured the time had come to expire matters." Sen. Paul Lexalt, R-Nev., chief strategist for the opponents, said.
In Washington, the United Auto Workers announced that it would contribute $2 million to a relief fund to help the families of striking coal miners and those on pensions.
Carter's energy bill gets push from gas agreement
WASHINGTON (AP) -Senate energy conferences broke their three-month impasse on President Jimmy Carter's energy bill yesterday by informally agreeing to support a proposal to lift price controls from natural gas by Jan. 1, 1985.
Meanwhile, Sen. Russell Long, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said the other main part of Carter's plan, a tax on domestic crude oil, would not pass the bill.
Sen. Henry M. Jackson, D-Wash., leader of the Senate conferences, said he would meet with House energy leaders today in an effort to resume formal bargaining on the natural gas supply.
It was the first break in the stalemate that has stymied energy on Carter's energy bill since Dec. 2, when House-Senate energy regulators took up the natural gas pricing issue.
The House passed Carter's proposal to keep price controls on natural gas, but the Senate voted to deregulate the price of gas after two years.
Until yesterday leaders were unable to
muster majority support among the Senate
candidates.
Under the tentative agreement, price controls would come off newly found gas by Jan. 1, 1988. But either the president or another company impose them for a single two-year period.
regulated price of natural gas to about between now and when the controls come off.
Aides said the compromise might cost consumers $15 billion to $17 billion more through 1985 than the House bill. By comparison, the administration has estimated the Senate-passed deregulation bill would cost consumers $70 billion through 1985.
The proposal also would allow the
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