CADET SLOUCH by Jim Earle Listen up
Campus police catch it
Editor:
A friend of mine who shall re
main nameless was, for all prac
tical purposes, arrested by our
glorious KK thirty minutes ago.
I waited for him to be released,
and in talking to him, I formed
a rather black opinion indeed of
our dauntless defenders of jus
tice.
He was arrested for taking pic
tures. Of what? Of a restricted
area or of quizzes? No, friends,
he was taking pictures of a quite
harmless 16-<foot (horrors!) bra
that was hung on the Academic
Building as a gag, more or less.
He was ordered to tell what he
knew, which was practically
nothing anyway, and he is actu
ally being ordered to surrender
his own developed film of the
“criminals in action”!
“We’re trying to patch things up with the guys who
complained about our rattlesnake hunt by giving each of
them one!”
I cannot speak for anyone else
(though I hope that I do), but I
burn at the thought of support
ing a police department that
claims the privilege of enforcing
upon me and my friends what
ever it happens to call “decency”
or “good taste”. I also ask that
anyone knowing who did the act
will keep quiet about it. Our KK
will not find whoever did it un
less someone tells them, and
they have no right to know!
Eric Dose ’74
AP interpretative
Few choices left to Gus Mutscher
If Gov. Preston Smith calls a
special session of the legislature
to begin before the bribery-con
spiracy trial of Speaker Gus Mut
scher is concluded, Mutscher has
two choices.
He can stay in Abilene and
continue his court battle or he
can go back to Austin and fight
for his power base as Speaker.
If he stays in Abilene, the
House will have to elect a new
Speaker or an acting Speaker.
This would ruin or damage Mut-
scher’s power base, thus reducing
his stature at his trial. On the
other hand, it might cast him in
the sympathetic role of a man
fighting for his innocence while
events beyond his control are at
tacking his career.
If he decides to go back to
Austin, he has two choices.
He can demand that the trial
be inteiTupted until after the leg
islative session has concluded or
he can ask the judge to declare a
mistrial and come back later to
be tried before a different jury.
A legislator can demand a con
tinuance in any trial where he is
a party or attorney if the legis
lature will be in session within
30 days.
A continuance would mean that
Mutscher and his co-defendants,
Rep. Tommy Shannon of Fort
Worth and Mutscher aide Rush
McGinty, would return to be tried
by the same 8-woman, 4-man jury
now hearing the case.
If the defense thinks it can
get a better jury with a new trial,
it could move for a mistrial on
the ground that the present jury
could not be expected to avoid all
news stories on the case for sev
eral weeks.
District Court Judge J. Neil
Daniel likely would grant a mo
tion for mistrial because a re
fusal would increase the chance
of reversal on appeal after wast
ing everybody’s time and money
federal courts threw out Texas’
filing fee system of financing
elections, and the Texas Supreme
Court ruled Wednesday that state
funds cannot be used unless the
Legislature appropriates them for
that purpose.
Several of Mutscher’s enemies
have predicted his continuance as
speaker will be challenged the
first day the Legislature is in ses
sion on the ground he is under
indictment.
But many of those enemies—
mostly members of a coalition of
Republicans, liberal Democrats
called the “Dirty 30”—would like
to see him remain speaker until
the May 6 primaries. This would
ce or at quui'uiu, aJlow ^ to con tinue to cam-
tatives 'under™ a paign aS refor ™ candi /^t fi ^
tatives unde a & S p ea k er charged with a fel-
by completing the trial.
Any one of the defendants
could ask for a mistrial. And
Shannon could demand a contin
uance even if Mutscher did not.
There is another far out pos
sibility.
Mutscher could decide to con
tinue his court fight and yet be
forced by the House to attend
the special session.
Under House rules, a majority
of those present can vote to put
“a call on the House,” compelling
representatives to attend in order
to assure a quorum.
The House can do this even if
it already has a quorum—to as
sure a continuance of a quorum,
If necessary,
arrest representatives
“call on the House” and take
them to Austin.
If a mistrial is declared, the
defendant might ask that any new
trial be moved to another city on
the ground that Abilene residents
now have been exposed to so
much news of the case it would
be difficult to get jurors that
have not already made up their
mind one way or another.
The trial was moved from Aus
tin on this ground.
A special session may not be
necessary until after the trial is
over.
But the Governor cannot hold
off much longer than the first
week in April, when the money
crunch for financing the May 6
primaries will begin to mount.
The session is necessary because
Note!
The deadline for Junior and
Sophomore pictures for the 1972
Aggieland is March 17. No late
pictures will be accepted.
Aggieland pictures are taken at
University Studios in North Gate.
ony.
One report several weeks ago—
denied by both the governor and
Mutscher — said the speaker
threatened Smith with impeach
ment if he called a special ses
sion before the trial was over.
Basis of the impeachment sup
posedly would be Smith’s permit
ting a special session in 1969 to
consider bank deposit insurance
legislation wanted by Houston
promoter Frank Sharp.
That action by the’ governor
followed his investment with a
loan from Sharp’s bank in an
insurance company controlled by
Sharp.
Smith vetoed the legislation—
upon recommendation of the Tex
as Bankers Association and others
—after he made a $62,500 profit
on his 45-day investment in the
insurance company stock.
Mutscher, Shannon and Mc
Ginty are accused of accepting
bribes in the form of loans from
Sharp’s bank in exchange for their
help in winning approval for the
legislation. The defendants also
made huge profits by investing
their loans in the same stock.
AARGH!
...John R. Moffitt
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Chief O. L. Luther said your
‘friend’ was picked up because
he was thought to have been in
volved in the incident. Soon
after that it was found that he
was not. That is not quite an
arrest. He wasn’t ordered to sur
render the film, Luther said, but
requested to bring it by when he
was finished with it. Luther said
that nobody was upset about the
incident and no film was or is
going to be confiscated. —Ed.
not going to make it, I will take
comfort in the fact that there
are people like Paul Richard to
aid the helpless and guide us
through the storm of life, and
protect us from “sickie” beasts
like John R. Moffitt, who try to
portray old Aggieland as some
thing other than the All-Ameri
can, gung-ho, apple pie, mili
tary academy, moral citadel, and
cultural mecca it really is.
Brent Burford
Editor:
Paul Richard’s letter was far
out! It really let me in on some
things I didn’t know. Paul said
John R. Moffitt’s strip “Aargh!”
was “disgusting, vulgar, and
anti-corps.” Yeah, I thought it
was great, too, Paul! You know
it was really nice of ol’ Paul to
inform us that A&M is a “mili
tary institution.” Could have
fooled me! All this time they
have been trying to tell us that
A&M is 80% civilian. Yes sir, it
sure is nice to know that we have
people like Paul to keep stories
like that from getting out of
hand.
Just to show you how much I
know, I thought the guys here
just dated girls and that sheep
were just a joke, but good ol’
reliable Paul straightened that
story out too. It seems that TU
is the only place to go where the
guys date only girls, and you are
not “real men as those who have
attended here have become” un
less you have dated something
other than girls. Well, live and
learn! So whenever I am feeling
low, and it just seems like I am
Let’s declare an end to this,
huh? —Ed.
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