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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Friday, March 28, 1986
Gambling proposals stalled
The Associated Press
TOPEKA — A legislative compromise on a proposed lottery amendment to the Kansas Constitution collapsed in the House yesterday. The Senate then postponed action on the lottery measure and another constitutional amendment allowing parimutuel gambling.
The lottery compromise was hammered out just hours before a number of House lottery backers withdrew support for the measure because of fears of when the question would be placed on the ballot.
As approved earlier in both chambers of the Legislature, the issue would be put to voters in the November general election. But the compromise language worked out between House and Senate negotiators yesterday would have placed the question on the August primary ballot.
FOR THE NEGATIVE
House Speaker Mike Hayden said five or six Republican lawmakers declared they would not vote for the compromise because of fears that the lottery would cause problems during primary election campaigns for some House seats.
Although a number of Democratic legislators also expressed concerns about the timing, House Minority Leader Marvin Barkis said he thought $^{29}$
support had eroded on his side of the aisle.
The House approved the lottery by the required two-thirds majority, 84-41, Tuesday without a single vote to spare. The same delicate coalition would have to be brought back together to give any compromise a mandatory two-thirds vote.
"I think the votes are there for the agreement the conference committee made." Hayden said after the chamber voted 81-40 to send the measure back for more negotiations. "The only thing hanging it up is whether it should be on the primary or the general (election)."
the general. Hayden said the action put the lottery question on hold until at least Tuesday. Neither Hayden nor Barkis said they were concerned that some lawmakers might change their minds on the lottery after going home for the weekend.
The Senate tentatively approved the House's version of the pari-mutuel resolution Wednesday. However, the Senate reconsidered its action on pari-mutuel after hearing that the House balked on the lottery compromise.
the latterency resolution was returned to the
Senate's debate calendar, where it was placed on
an indefinite hold.
in immediate inclusion in the lottery compromise were
changes that would have eliminated a provision in the House version that prohibits the state from advertising the lottery.
another change would require the state to provide odds of winning when possible instead of printing them on every ticket. The compromise also would lower the margin by which the 1990 Legislature would have to reapprove the lottery from a two-thirds majority, as the House version required, to a simple majority in both chambers.
A Senate-passed provision, which called for using all revenue from a lottery to finance state economic development programs, was eliminated in the House and was not seriously discussed by the conference committee.
Members of the panel said the date of the public vote on the lottery was moved back from November to August because of a "sunset" provision, which called for the lottery to be discontinued in 1990 without additional legislative approval.
Senate President Robert V. Talkington, R-Iola, said the vote on pari-mutuel was called off because he promised several senators they would be able to vote on the lottery before pari-mutel. Talkington said the lottery issue must be resolved before the upper chamber would take up pari-mutel.
By Brian Kaberline Staff writer
Apartheid issues subject of Alpha Week speakers
Many people oppose the apar-
theid in South Africa without
knowing the issues involved, said
Ronald Hardin, president of the
Alpha Phi alpha fraternity.
For this reason, he said, three speakers will visit the University of Kansas to discuss apartheid issues as part of the fraternity's annual Alpha Week.
Alpha Week begins Tuesday with a speech by Richard K. Barksdale, Langston Hughes visiting professor of English. Barksdale, whose works include studies of Langston Hughes and other black writers, will speak at 7 p.m. at Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union, Hardin said.
Dick Gregory, human and civil rights activist and comedian, will
speak at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Party Room of the Burge Union, Hardin said.
LaDale George, an organizer of the week's events, said Gregory was chosen because he had been active on the issue of apartheid
On Thursday, Daniel Pernell, director of the International Council Against Racism, will discuss the Sullivan Principles, guidelines for the advancement of blacks in multinational corporations in South Africa. Pernell's presentation will be at 7 p.m. in the Union Ballroom of the Kansas Union.
Hardin said the purpose of Alpha Week was to enhance the awareness of cultural, political and economical issues from the black perspective to students, faculty and people of the community of all races.
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