THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 1974
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Legislators’ salaries become subject of convention
AUSTIN, Tex. GP) —One of the
Texas Constitutional Convention’s
most delicate, and for the legis
lator-delegates, most personal is
sue gets its big test today.
Legislative salaries are at the
top of the day’s debate agenda.
Ivif The convention’s Legislative
KCommittee voted for compensa-
|tion of $8,750 a year—not even
double the $4,800 set by a 1960
constitutional amendment and un
changed since then. An attempt
to raise lawmakers’ pay failed at
the polls last year.
But it also included an alter
native submission by which the
voters could opt for a special
commission to recommend maxi
mum legislative salaries. The con
vention must approve this, how
ever, before it can go to the vot
ers.
In Wednesday’s session, the
delegates first appeared to favor
four-year terms for House mem
bers—double the present terms—
but then rejected them. Senators
already serve four years between
elections.
The vote was 96-70 against
tabling an amendment by Rep. E.
L. Short, D-Tahoka, to give rep
resentatives four years in of
fice. But after two hours of talk
ing and amending, they rejected
the Short amendment by a 100-69
vote.
Sen. John Traeger, D-Seguin,
said he favored putting the House
member’s terms on a par with the
senators’.
Payments may force Nixon to borrow
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I back taxes left open the ques-
Ition of the future of Nixon’s vice
■ presidential papers, on which he
W claimed $476,431
IRS now refuses
i|| Nixon said last Nov
\
in deductions
to accept.
17 that if
IRS raised any question about the
deductions, “let me tell you this:
I will be glad to have the papers
back and I will think they are
worth more than that.”
Asked if Nixon now would re
claim the papers, Deputy White
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House Press Secretary Gerald L.
Warren said, “that’s a subject
that no one’s discussed around
here.”
James B. Rhoads, the archivist
of the United States, would not
comment Wednesday night when
asked whether Nixon could have
the papers back. Rhoads said he
wanted time to study the IRS
findings.
IRS said nothing publicly about
Nixon’s tax troubles but the
White House said its still-secret
report “rebuts any suggestion of
fraud on the part of the Presi
dent.” The official statement said
Nixon was innocent of any
wrongdoing, declaring:
“Any errors which may have
been made in the preparation of
the President’s returns were
made by those to whom he dele
gated the responsibility for pre
paring his returns and were made
without his knowledge and with
out his approval.”
A White House source said
Nixon was not legally obliged to
pay $148,081 in back taxes for
1969, which IRS said he owed,
because the statute of limitations
for that year has expired.
Saying the payment would be
made nevertheless, the source
said Nixon was “doing this be
cause he said he would do it.”
In unveiling personal financial
details in December, Nixon asked
the Joint Congressional Commit-
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tee on Internal Revenue Taxa
tion to look into his 1969-72 tax
returns. He said at the time he
would abide by its judgment of
whether he owed more than the
$78,651 he actually paid for the
four years.
A committee staff report, made
public Wednesday, calculated Nix
on owed an extra $444,022 plus
interest.
This preceded the announce
ment that IRS also had found
Nixon’s payments inadequate.
A White House official said
IRS and the committee staff
basically agreed on items in the
Nixon returns that were subject
to challenge. It said differences
in money terms reflected vary
ing methods of making tax and
interest calculations.
Nixon was described as con
vinced his lawyers “can make a
very strong case” against the
major adverse findings. But the
White House said he would pay
up without quarrel because of
his December pledge to abide by
the findings of the congressional
panel.
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sity of Texas and TAMU.
The station was managed un
der the auspices of the electrical
engineering department. It was a
commercial station, which caused
its eventual selling.
In 1957 the federal government
added an amendment to the tax
Jaws which said universities
would be taxed for commercial
activities that could not be jus
tified as educational. There was
no student participation or broad
casting courses offered at the
time so the university sold the
station to Radio Bryan Inc. in
1958, which kept the same call
letters.
Most people think representa
tives have four-year terms any
way, he said, and often approach
Icampaigning House members
with, “Are you running again al
ready? I thought you just got
elected.”
But Rep. Bob Davis, R-Dallas,
said two-year terms keep the
representatives close to their peo
ple.
“Getting elected is essentially
the process of representative
government,” Davis said.
The legislative article’s section
on redistricting was amended,
100-61, with a “minority protec
tion” clause proposed by Rep.
Joe Pentony, D-Houston.
Pentony’s amendment covers
situations in which a county
might have population left over
after one or more House districts
have been carved out of it. If the
excess population is equal to at
least half of that needed for an
other district—about 37,000 peo
ple currently it cannot be di
vided among more than one more
district.
Rep. Jim Mattox, D-Dallas,
failed 127-40 with an amendment
(requiring that legislative dis
tricts vary in population by no
more than 5 per cent. Current dis
tricts have a deviation of more
than 9 per cent.
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