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Fridav. November 3.1972
University Daily Kansan
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Pearson Stands on Record of Congressional Service
By BOB SIMISON
By BOB SIMISON Kansan Staff Writer
The kind of pragmatic politics that have given Sen. James B. Pearson increasing influence in the U.S. Senate in the last 10 years has enabled him to win reelection with case this year.
When Congress adjourned for the campaign three weeks before the election, Pearson led his Democratic opponent, Archie Moore, to a village anesthesiologist, in one poll, 71 to 19.
A year ago, some observers thought Pearson might be in trouble, according to Ray Morgan, who covers Kansas politics for the Kansas City Star. The speculation that Gov. Robert B. Docking would oppose Pearson after completing his third term.
Pearson saw the threat, however, according to Earl Neehring, assistant professor of computer science at the University more frequently. By April, he appeared formidable enough that Docking decided to call for a review.
Tetzlaff, who ran for the Republican nomination for House of Representatives in the 2nd District in 1968, has mastered little else outside of Johnson County and Kannapolis.
TETZ/LAFF IS AN assistant professor of anesthesiology at the University of Kansas Medical Center and chairman of the department of anesthesiology at Providence-St. Margaret Health Center in Kansas City.
Other candidates are Conservative Gene F. Miller, Lawrence chemist, and Prohibitionist Howard Taft Hadin, Leonardville farmer and stockman.
Pearson is not known as an astute campaigner, Morgan said. He has been criticized in past campaigns for spending too little time in the state.
"Pearson's greatest weakness is his refusal to play politics," Morgan said. "He doesn't like to glad-band it. He thinks it unnecessary. Jim Pearson is a lot like Frank Carlson. He's not spectacular, but he gives the people the idea he's a good student."
Nehring characterized Pearson as "an
thing that doesn't fit any sharp
ideological category."
Pearson's rising stature in Washington indicates how well he combines concerns of his profession with others.
public servant, of farm-state representative and voice in world affairs.
CONTINUOUS SERVICE since his appointment to the Senate in 1982 by Gov. John Koehler, he is now a member of the 62nd Congress to land an appointment to the prestigious Committee on Foreign Relations. He gave up a position on the Committee on Appropriations, one nearly as big.
He also is second ranking Republican on the Committee on Commerce behind Sen. Norris Cotton of New York. He was appointed to the Joint Economic Committee last session.
It takes a bit more than longevity to land an appointment to the Foreign Relations Committee. Nehring said. The appointment indicates the respect Pearson commands
Even more important have been recent appointments to special commissions to study the roots of U.S. foreign policy and to study the possibility of ending emergency powers delegated to the President by the 1960 Korean National Emergency Act.
PEARSON ALSO IS ONE of five U.S. delegates to the 27th general Assembly of the American League and George Bush, ambassador to the United Nations; Sen. Gale McGee, D-Wyo.; Christopher H. Phillips, State Department diplomat; and Jewell Laffont, Chicago
Pearson was one of two senators invited to Germany for a summer of seminars in 1988.
The Senate majority and minority leaders, Mike Mansfield, D-Mont, and Hugh Scott, R-Pa., recommended that Pearson be one of a group of senators to visit China to discuss. Mansfield and Scott visited mainland China earlier this year.
Pearson has said he planned to work in the United Nations for strong antihacking measures and a solution to the problem of atomic waste disposal. He has been a moving force in Senate consideration of both issues.
As ranking Republican on the Commerce Committee's Subcommittee on Air, he was a floor manager of the strong antithacking bill that passed the Senate this fall. Pearson pushed through an amendment to allow U.S. authorities to suspend landing
privileges for foreign airlines that refused to implement international security stam
"I was a peace candidate two years ago, when I ran on the Republican ticket against Larry Winn in the third congressional race," he said. "I still feel the same way as I did; then we should get out of Vietnam and let those people settle their own affairs."
Tetzlaff said he opposed any plan to send American troops to the Middle East, but favored continued military support of Israel in the form of arms and equipment.
On the domestic issue of gun control, on the patient offered a response to the question of the reason for his physician's treatment.
PEARSON BECAME involved in the problem of disposing of atomic waste earlier this year when Kansans successfully halted a project by the Atomic Energy Commission to site near Lyons for a waste depository. He held an international conference to seek a world solution.
"I think there would be some issues where we would probably vote the same way," he said. "I'm basically conservative so I can see where there might be some areas of agreement but I don't think they would be very broad."
He said he would vote according to his convictions because he was not responsible to any one or two pressure groups and had no official position from the executive branch of the federal government.
THE WAR in Vietnam was what brought Tetzlaff into politics originally, he said.
Tetzlaff said if elected, he would not alter the duties of his office as such, but would perform them in the way intended by the Constitution.
Tetzlaff said he did not expect to have a close working relationship with Sen. Bob Chiaw, chairman of the Republican National Committee and Kansas' junior senator.
Congressional reform and an increase in the U.S. Senate's role of checking and balancing the executive and judicial branches of government are among the concerns of Dr. Arch Tetzlaff, Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate.
The U.N. Conference on the Human Environment in Sweden last May recommen-
other issues Pearson said he hoped to take to the United Nations were the problem of
"I THINK that every time we see an election, the election is held and then we go back to Washington and turn over all the men who have been there for many years."
"I do find some weaknesses in Congress' performing its duties, particularly in the balances and balances. I also see some weakness in the interests are better represented in Congress than are the people at large," he said. "My suggestions for reform have to do with disclosures of every senator's income, worth and amount of taxes paid every year."
"I have some proposals for reform of the Senate, and for that matter, the reform of Congress," he said. "I think that it is high time that we eliminate the senatorry system by making a national means of electing chairmen of the all-powerful committees in Congress.
"I WILL say this, however," he said. "I am somewhat puzzled to see Pearson so often express a reasonable opinion in public and then vote in the opposite direction as he did on the SST, the appointment of Supreme Court justices, the appointment of the Secretary of Agriculture and with regard to busing."
in mind, he also amended the Revenue Act of 1971 to give a 10 per cent tax credit for investments which were intended to create new jobs in rural areas.
international narcotics traffic and the problem of arms control.
Tetzlaff, an anesthesiologist at Providence-St. Margaret Health Center in Kansas City, Kan., and assistant professor of anesthesiology at the University of Chicago, the Reporter opposes Sen. James B. Pearson, the Republican incumbent. Tetzlaff lives in Overland Park.
Tetzlaff Urges Reform In Government Powers
In national issues, Pearson is recognized as an innovator in rural development. He is one author of the $400-million-a-year rural development program enacted last year. The program is to improve living conditions and to lure job-create industries there.
Pearson also helped sponsor President Nixon's $30.1 billion revenue-sharing plan; proposed a national energy resources advisory board to forge a national energy policy, a function now in the hands of 61 agencies; pushed for increased federal aid for airport construction; proposed an allocation of $30 million in a two-year period to improve roads around flood control areas; and signed Senate approval for $7.7 million to build dormitories and classrooms at Haskell Indian Junior College.
By DON JEFFERSON
Kansan Staff Writer
WITH ROBERT A. Taft Jr., R-Ohio, he sponsored legislation to create permanent machinery to settle national emergency transportation strikes. President Nixon withdrew support for the measure last summer. The bill failed.
moderate stand, which calls for the registration of all handguns. He said he had seen a high incidence of injuries and death because of handguns.
After he conducted hearings in January in Dodge City on the shortage of railroad freight cars, Pearson helped sponsor a bill that would ban guarantees to build 130,000 freight cars.
S. Abraham A. Ribicoff, D-Conn, in his book "America Can Make It," praised Pearson's "far-seeing approach to rural agriculture" and adjunct to solving many national problems.
"This is not some kind of a scheme to keep them down on the farm," Pearson said in the Senate, "but it is a plan to provide for them and make sure they remain in the rural parts of America."
Concerning the Vietnam war, Pearson stands somewhere between Sen. George McGovern, Democratic candidate for president and against repeat of the Tookin Gulf Resolution in 1966 and in 1971 he voted against the McGovern-Hafft Amendment to cut off funds for the war after Dec. 31, 1971, against the Cooper-Church amendment to authorize funds only for withdrawal from Vietnam under a cease-fire as a condition for withdrawal.
THE LARGE corporate farming operations are dangerous, he said, and tend to be exploitative. He said the family farm was the mainstay of the U.S. farm program because the favored continued subsidies to smaller farmers, primarily to maintain the soil bank.
PEARSON'S IDEA is to relieve some of the growth problems of cities by making them more equitable.
However, he voted in favor of a 1971 Manifold field resolution urging withdrawal of the bill.
Tetzlaff expressed displeasure that the welfare issue had been, in his view, "gutted" in the Senate. Nixon's welfare reform was preferable to nothing at all, he said, but Sen. George McGovern's more liberal proposals would have been even better.
Tetzlaff said he supported "cooling an over-heated economy and over-heated demands on energy resources" to preserve the environment. The proposal to build an Alaskan pipeline is ecologically undesirable, he said.
“When it comes to strip mining,” he said, “the companies that are allowed to reap the benefits of strip mining should certainly be made to restore what they done to nature when they get through.”
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"We have filled our commitment to the people of South Vietnam," Pearson said in the Senate. "Now we must fulfill our commitments to the people of America. All new U.S. initiatives in Vietnam must be for protection of American troops there, sequestration of prisoners of war and preventing, further death and in injury to the Vietnamese people."
PEARSON URGED "cutting the fat from military budgets" when he addressed a
Baker University convocation in Baldwin Oct. 15.
New Republic magazine, which evaluates voting records on what it considers to be key issues according to its liberal standards, shows Pearson becoming more liberal in recent years and spelling with the party word "Democrat" in Congressional Quarterly says, Pearson voted. Republicans on 61 per cent of partisan issues and opposed the party on 30 per cent.
Nebring said it was difficult to classify Pearson as liberal or conservative.
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