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AUSTIN, Tex. MP> — While
(Speaker Gus Mutscher’s friends
grieved over his bribery-conspi
racy conviction Wednesday, “Dir
ty 30” members said it was a blow
for legislative reform.
The conviction of Mutscher and
two of his top aides also added
steam to opposing movements to
replace Mutscher as speaker in the
coming special legislative session.
"It’s been a sad day. It hurts,”
said one female employe in the
House.
"I am sure all of us are sad-
jdened by the verdict personally,”
said Rep. R. B. McAlister of Lub
bock, who introduced Mutscher
to the former Miss America the
speaker married in 1969.
Mutscher, speaker’s aide Rush
HcGinity and Rep. Tommy Shan
non were convicted by an Abilene
jury of conspiring to exchange
their influence for huge profits
from stock deals arranged by
Houston promoter Frank Sharp.
The jury found that Sharp set up
the profitable combination of
loans and stock purchases to win
Mutscher’s efforts on behalf of
two bank deposit insurance bills
in a 1969 special legislative ses
sion.
Gov. Preston Smith, who also
profited from similar stock deals
arranged by Sharp, had little to
say about the jury verdict.
“The trial in Abilene is over.
All of us in state government
must now put our shoulders to
the wheel and push harder to
find solutions to the pressing
problems facing our state in the
coming special session and the
months ahead,” Smith said in a
statement.
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Mutscher on the speakership lad
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“Well, what do you know! All
my expert friends told me the
prosecution were going to blow
it. I am not surprised,” said Rep.
Tom Moore of Waco, a leader of
the “Dirty 30” house coalition
that pushed for an investigation
last year of Mutscher’s dealings
with Sharp.
“As you know, we spent the
whole session insisting that all
the facts be brought out, and
they have been brought out,”
Moore said.
He said the convictions would
“have a salutary effect on the
next legislature.”
“It will give impetus to those
who are now running on the basis
of changing the House rules.
When you give that much power
to one man, you are just asking
for corruption, the temptation is
so great,” Moore said.
Rep. Menton Murray of Har
lingen, chairman of the House
General Investigating Committee,
said the committee would have a
report on its probe of Sharp’s
banking bills ready when the spe
cial legislative session convenes
this spring.
The committee halted its probe
“pending this trial,” he said, and
now the committee must decide
whether it needs to unearth any
more facts before making its re
port.
“I am satisfied they got a fair
and impartial trial, and that is
what everybody wanted,” Murray
said.
Two gubernatorial candidates,
Dolph Brisco and Dirty 30 “den
mother” Rep. Frances Farenthold
used the verdict as a springboard
for renewed calls for reform. They
are running against Smith and
Barnes in the Democratic prima
ry.
“I think we must remember
that those bills could not have
been on the special session agenda
if the governor had not put them
there, and they could not have
been rushed to passage through
the Senate without the lieutenant
governor’s cooperation,” Briscoe
said.
Mrs. Farenthold said Smith
should call an immediate special
legislative session to pass ethics
^legislation, give the House a
chance to reorganize and to en
able the Senate to start an in
vestigation of how the Sharp bills
were rushed to passage in that
chamber.
“As a personal matter for the
families of the defendants and
the defendants themselves as pri
vate persons, I have sadness and
sympathy. And I think we should
be mindful that their convictions
will be appealed,” she said.
Rep. Dave Allred; of Wichita
Falls, another “Dirty 30” member
and son of a former governor,
said it was “a very sad circum
stance that something like this
ever happened.”
Asked if the conviction would
help candidates who are running
against incumbents who voted
with Mutscher during the 1971
session, Allred said: “It can’t do
anything else but help.”
Rep. DeWitt Hale of Corpus
Christi, a friend of the speaker
and an investigating committee
member, said he was “very sym
pathetic with Mr. Mutscher and
with Donna, the speaker’s wife.”
Hale is being pushed by a pe
culiar coalition of liberals and
Mutscher “team” members for in
terim speaker during the special
session. The move is designed to
head off Rep. Rayford Price of
Palestine’s attempt to strengthen
his campaign for speaker of the
1973 house by winning election as
interim speaker.
Hale has promised not to seek
the 1973 speakership and said he
would “minimize politics” during
the special session if he is chosen
interim speaker.
Mutscher’s conviction, he said,
“adds a new sense of urgency”
to efforts to put a non-candidate
in the speaker’s chair during the
special session.
Rep. Price Daniel Jr., of Lib
erty, a 1973 speaker candidate
who backs Hale for interim
speaker, said he had “full con
fidence in his ability to guide
the house through the chaotic and
turbulent special session.”
' “Indictments and convictions
are not the cure to the evils in
the Texas House. Permanent and
meaningful reform in the way the
House operates is the only way
to prevent this kind of thing from
happening in the future,” Daniel
said.
He called the convictions “a
disgrace and humiliation to the
people of Texas.”
McAlister said he favored hold
ing a wide open election for in
terim speaker during the special
session instead of selecting a
caretaker speaker.
“It would be much stronger to
go ahead and determine who has
the votes and elect a speaker than
to go into suspended animation,
he said 1 .
Dr. George Willeford of Aus
tin, state Republican Party chair
man, said he thought the convic
tions “are really an indictment
and conviction of the one-party
system.”
“One-party states end up in
corruption, no matter how good
or bad the people involved are,”
Willeford said.
Local students set up theater group
University and high school stu
dents interested in theater will
meet Saturday at A&M to form a
student chapter of the U. S. Insti
tute for Theater Technology Inc.
Covering educational, communi
ty and professional theater, the
chapter will consist of TAMU,
Bryan and College Station high
school students.
The 10 a.m. Saturday meeting
will be in Room 326 of the Aca
demic Building, according to Rob
ert W. Wenck of the Theater Arts
Section of TAMU’s English De
partment. He chairs the USITT
Texas section and was recently
elected to the Institute board of
directors.
“The new student chapter will
put together like-minded students
and enable them to develop their
own programs and activities re
lated to theater,” Wenck said.
The chapter will provide stu
dents with contact with other
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