THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1974
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AUSTIN (i’P) — Constitutional
convention delegates refused Mon
day to establish earmarked funds
for vocational training and to kill
a program that funnels state aid
to church colleges.
The long floor session ended
about 6:45 p. m. without the final
vote convention President Price
aniel Jr. had hoped for on the
ducation article of a new consti-
;ution.
, Discussion of the article—one
{ 11 in the constitution—began
in Feb. 15.
* When Monday’s session re
cessed, delegates were embroiled
3n debate over a section prohibit
ing racial or ethnic discrimination
jn educational programs using
state funds.
Sen. A. R. Schwartz, D-Gal-
eston, failed, 98-66, to add reli-
Energy crunch
to be analyzed
by geologist
gion to the non-discrimination
section.
Earlier, he failed, 133-33, to
include a provision that would
have shut off the tuition equali
zation grant program, which pro
vides $7.5 million a year to pri
vate colleges.
Opponents of his amendment to
prohibit religious discrimination
in education claimed he was
seeking the same result “through
the back door,” but Schwartz de
nied this.
“I know what discrimination is.
When I hit this place—the legis
lature—I was the first Jew in 50
years,” Schwartz said.
Sen. Bill Meier, D-Euless, said
it would impose a dilemma on
church schools that are required
by the terms of their endowments
to hire only professors of a cer
tain religious faith. They would
have to choose between those en
dowments or the state grants he
said.
In debate on his amendment to
eliminate the tuition equalization
grants, Schwartz said two Texas
attorney generals had ruled con
trary to U. S. Supreme Court
decisions when they issued opin
ions upholding the program.
If the grant program continues,
there will be a “growing entangle
ment of church and state,”
Schwartz asserted.
“Sooner or later some of us in
Texas will have to go to the
Supreme Court of the United
States with this issue unless some
thing is done about it in this con
stitution,” he said.
Schwartz said of 6,111 students
A man who says “demagogic
publicity-crazed politicians” are
ping to put the blame for the
nergy crisis on the petroleum
industry will speak here tonight.
Since til ‘ Michel T. Halbouty, class of
eve ryJj30, an internationally known ge-
Box (itfiplogist and petroleum engineer,
rough Ft ff ''l discuss the effects of gov-
Telepte Bmment controls on oil supply at
5 p.m. in the Rudder Center
Theater.
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According to a recent speech
by Halbouty, the petroleum in-
iustry should be exonerated of
the implications of irresponsibil
ity and the blame put on the
Congressmen who “repeatedly
labeled as self-serving and scare
tactics the honest, serious indi
viduals who foresaw the inevi-
;able consequences” of the ener
gy policies of the government.
The Great Issues presentation
is free.
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ROY CLARK brings his brand of music and humour to A&M
during his Friday night concert last weekend. The tv per
sonality played banjo, guitar and fiddle during the perform
ance. (Photo by Gary Baldasari)
Sirica sets Wednesday
hearing for jury report
a.m. I (Continued from page 1)
[two other Watergate grand juries.
I It was believed that charges
treat growing out of the activities of
;he White House Special Investi
gations unit, particularly the fo-
fay for psychiatric records of
Daniel Ellsberg, would be re
turned in midweek. Others to fol
low may be indictments for illegal
campaign contributions, political
espionage, the 18% minute tape
■ ’gap and possibly more charges in
the break-in and coverup.
Sirica, who turned down the
White House last year in its bid
to keep its Watergate tapes and
: documents from the grand jury,
^^^jfhas a number of options:
E —He can turn over the report
fand an accompanying satchel
Ifilled with documents to the
|;House Judiciary Committee which
Bis studying whether to recom
mend impeachment to the full
House.
—He can order the document
sealed and kept in the court’s cus
tody.
—He can make it public.
—He can order the grand jury,
which has not been discharged, to
make its findings part of the in
dictment—perhaps even naming
the President as an unindicted co
conspirator should its evidence
warrant it.
SPECIAL WATERGATE Pros
ecutor Leon Jaworski’s office has
decided that the proper forum for
any charges against the Presi
dent is the House. That decision
avoids the court battles sure to
result over the question whether
indictment can precede impeach
ment. Constitutional scholars
argue on both sides of the ques
tion.
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receiving such grants in 1973,
1,830 were from minority groups.
Rep. Tim Von Dohlen, D-Goliad,
said the Supreme Court had never
contended that “where it relates
to the children themselves, the
state cannot provide for the child
ren who attend private schools.”
Tuition equalization grants are
made in the names of individual
students and are supposed to
make up part of the difference
between state university tuition
and that charged by private col
leges.
“If all church schools closed
tomorrow, we would face the big
gest tax bill this state has ever
seen,” Von Dohlen said.
Legislator - delegates defeated,
99-67, an amendment setting up
a $1.5 million guaranteed appro
priation for state technical insti
tutes, to be used mainly for con
struction. An attempt to table the
amendment Friday afternoon had
failed, 75-75.
The Texas State Technical In
stitute has four campuses, at
Waco, Harlingen, Amarillo and
Sweetwater.
Sen. Grant Jones, D-Abilene,
said the money would be a “com
mitment for people who may not
have the opportunity of obtain
ing and holding a meaningful
job.”
Rep. Bennie Bock, D - New
Braunfels, said the guaranteed
appropriation would be “fiscally
conservative” because it would
train for jobs persons who might
end up on welfare.
Rep. George Preston, D-Paris,
said there are 6,000 students at
the institutes now and asked:
“Are we going to create a special
fund for every 5,000 people or
5,000 students who come down
here and ask for one? If we do
we will be here until 1984.”
Rep. Bryan Poff, D-Amarillo,
later failed, 97-70, to set up a $1.5
million annual fund for construc
tion, equipment and library books
for junior college vocational pro
grams.
The money “wouldn’t be enough
to build a woodshed” because it
would be distributed among three
dozen junior colleges, objected
Rep. Neil Caldwell, D-Angleton,
chairman of the convention’s Fi
nance Committee.
“It’s not a lot of money, and
it’s not going to bankrupt any
body. It is a gesture of good faith
by this convention to take care
of these people,” Poff said.
Sen. W. E. Snelson, D-Midland,
won an 85-79 vote for his amend
ment to remove a provision pro
hibiting schools in the University
of Texas and Texas A&M systems
from receiving tax money for land
and buildings. The two systems
receive the income from the $692
million Permanent University
Fund for those purposes.
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In his White House briefing,
Warren also reaffirmed the Pres
ident’s support for the accuracy
of a statement by Haldeman that
figured in last week’s indictment.
One of the courts against the
former White House chief of staff
alleged he lied in quoting the
President as saying raising $1
million for Watergate defendants
would be wrong.
Nixon was asked on Aug. 22
about the Haldeman statement,
made before the Senate Water
gate Committee, and replied “his
statement is accurate.”
On Monday, Warren said, “I am
standing firmly behind what the
President said,, at that news con
ference.
Asked whether he was author
ized to say that the President
stood behind the statement, War
ren replied: “If he didn’t I cer
tainly wouldn’t.”
MEANWHILE, the government
filed its response to an appeal by
Watergate conspirator E. Howard
Hunt that his conviction should be
overturned because of errors by
Sirica.
Hunt, who is free pending the
outcome of his appeal, claims
Sirica should have permitted him
to withdraw his guilty plea and
that the charges against him
should be dropped because of mis
conduct by the government.
He also claims he was improp
erly sentenced and if the case is
set for retrial, that it should go
to a judge other than Sirica.
In its brief, the government
told the U. S. Court of appeals
that despite “the recurrent theme
in Hunt’s brief that he was vic
timized . . . while a fraud was
perpetrated on the judicial sys
tem, the criminal process and the
public in the Watergate case.
Hunt was fully aware of the fraud
during its commission.”
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