University Daily Kansan / Tuesday, January 30, 1990
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Lawmakers discuss ethics Inclusion of financial review stalls resolution
By Rod Griffin
Kansan staff writer
The Senate elections committee yesterday postponed a decision on a resolution establishing a subcommittee on governmental ethics.
The resolution would have required the establishment of a subcommittee to develop a code of ethics that would set standards for conduct and establish disciplinary actions for the violation of those standards.
The subcommittee would make recommendations on the establishment of a joint legislative committee on ethical conduct. It also would review current laws on copyright disclosure, conflict of interest and cannism finance.
Discussion on creation of the subcommittee stalled when State Sen. Dick Bond, R-Overland Park, proposed an amendment to the resolution.
He asked that the subcommittee also be required to review legislators' expenses and compensation.
"I think compensation and expenses are part of the ethical question," he said.
State Sen. Mike Johnston, D-Parsons, spoke out in opposition.
"The last thing I want is for someone to charge that this whole thing is a ruse to raise our pay," he said. "I don't want to support anything that focuses on what we are paid rather than what we do."
Senators expressed deep-seated concerns about the possible tightening of conflict of interest laws.
The Kansas Legislature is a part-time citizen legislature. State Sen. Dave Kerr, R-Hutchinson, said legislators sometimes had conflicts of interest when voting because of work outside of the Legislature.
"If the bill results, in one or two years from now, in much tighter conflict of interest regulation, you will be forcing a full-time Legislature," he said.
The elections committee elected to postpone its decision on the creation of the ethics subcommittee so it could continue.
Common Cause is a group that lobbies for improvements in governmental ethics legislation.
Michael Woolf, executive director of Common Cause, said that putting off the creation of a Senate subcommit-
Woof said he would prefer that the House and Senate first work together to enact sweeping proposals introduced by Common Cause earlier this month.
"Let them work together and get as much done as they can this year," he said.
Common Cause made a series of proposals that, among other things, would:
Put in place voluntary limits on campaign expenditures. A $25,000 limit would be placed on primary and general elections for campaigns for senators. Limits of $12,500 would be placed on the campaigns of representatives. Higher limits would be placed on campaigns for other statewide offices.
- Put in place more stringent conflict of interest laws.
- Put in place rules that would limit political action committee contributions.
Put in place laws that would require disclosure of lobbying expenditures.
Lied's fate remains in limbo
By a Kansan reporter
KU officials and a contracting company met yesterday to discuss construction bids for the Lied Center. Bids received by the University on Jan. 12 exceeded the $13.1 million budget for the performing arts center.
Allen Wiechert, director of facilities planning, said he met with the company that placed the lowest bid
on the project. The two groups reviewed options that could lead to a reduction in the cost of construction. These companies name or details of the bid.
Wiechert said that progress was made at the meeting and that he would meet with Chancellor Gene A. Wiechert to discuss the University's next move.
Wiechert said that the University
might release information after the Budig meeting about the bids and construction plans.
"What happens next depends the meeting," Wiechert said. Groundbreaking ceremonies scheduled for Jan. 19 at the center's site near 13th and Iowa streets were put on hold because of the bid delay.
The Lied Foundation pledged $10 million for construction of the center.
Prosecutor gets booby-trap gun in mail
The Associated Press
NEW YORK — A saved-off. 22-caliber rifle, loaded and set to go off,
was delivered yesterday to an assistants' executes drug cases, authorities said.
A briefcase containing the gun was delivered by mail to the Brooklyn federal courthouse office of Catherine Palmer, an experienced prosecutor who has investigated major Asian heroin drug traffickers.
"It it could have killed the person opening it," said Andrew J. Maloney, the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.
The briefcase had not been considered suspicious when it arrived at Palmer's office. The gun was disarmed by federal agents' working with the prosecutor on another case, authorities said.
"They happened to be there and opened the package." I think it
was more luck than anything that it didn't go off," Maloney said.
Janice Swinney, a New York police officer, described the gun as a 22-caliber, but did not elaborate.
Maloney said, he believed the devices, which contained no note or other threat, was related to Palmer's drug prosecutor, not to civil rights.
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