ord seeks clean-air postponement
THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1975
Page 7
Apolitical
^WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- source said the proposal would seek
Hnt Ford plans to seek postpone- to amend the Clean Air Act, post-
ment of clean-air standards for poning for several years the power
nn.I.LTeMwer plants to help them convert plant standards now scheduled to
ofllie'art ( i ll ‘ c ^y from oil to coal-burning take effect in inid-1975.
im, ,Oilers, administration sources said ., . . ,
w, over „ , Morton.addressingtheManuiac-
I'fiutesectel turing Chemists’ Association,
'Over thee! Interior Secretary Rogers C. B. hinted at a postponement by saying
tsofnewor Morton, declining to disclose that “the policies for development
'•fins, and i specific policies, told a reporter the of coal are now balanced, in terms of
Wfc|of(usiJHesident’s State of the Union ad- the time we’ve got to buy on the
mal power, dress Wednesday would include environmental problems.’’
ensus appe ; -proposals to speed power plant con- Coal was barely mentioned by
versions to coal. Ford in a broadcast preview of his
another administration energy and economic policies Mon
day night. Morton assigned it the
central role in achieving energy in
dependence by 1985 as promised by
the President.
“If we fail on coal, we can’t get
from here to there. It’s the Big
Casino,” Morton said, “Coal is the
key.”
“We’re going to have to encour
age the use of coal as fast as possible
... To get to 1985 with oil import
levels we can live with, we are going
to have to double the use of coal,” he
said.
Morton, chairman of the cabinet-
level Energy Resources Council
which prepared policy options for
the President, expressed his own
strong opposition to government
fuel rationing or similar efforts to
control directly the public’s use of
energy.
“I am totally opposed to the prop
osition that we should put on vol
umetric controls and ration energy
for the next ten years, ” Morton said.
“It is much better to incline the
market toward conservation.”
In the push to encourage the use
of coal by power plants in place of oil
or natural gas, the administration
has stood by the insistence of the
Environmental Protection Agency
on the use of either low-sulfur coal
or exhaust-scrubbers to prevent pol
lution, sources said.
But is was expected to propose
postponement for three or four
years, or even longer, of the air pol
lution standards that would require
these measures.
EPA has already been granting
power plants permission to miss the
1975 deadline under consent ag
reements setting schedules for
compliance over the next several
years.
iBoard appointees^
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AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) — The three
men appointed Monday as Univer
sity of Texas regents contributed a
total of $10,500 to the governor’s
1974 re-election campaign, cam
paign finance records show.
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the appointees’ districts said Tues
day, however, he would support the
nominations.
“I did not know about the con
tributions, but a man has a right to
be for who he wants as long as there
are no conflicts,” said Sen. Jack
Ogg, D-Houston, who represents
the district where Walter Sterling,
73, lives. Sterling gave $5,000 to
Briscoe on April 25 and $2,500 on
Nov. 12, according to reports filed
in the secretary of state’s office.
Ogg said he did not foresee any
problems in the Senate confirma
tion of Sterling, a Houston oilman-
banker.
Sen. Betty Andujar, R-Fort
Worth, said the other new appoin
tee, Tom Law, 55, a Fort Worth
lawyer, is “well known and well ac
cepted.”
Mrs. Andujar said she thought
Law would be confirmed without
any problem.
Law made two $500 contributions
to Briscoe in 1974.
Dan Williams, 61, a Dallas
lawyer, was reappointed for another
six-year term on the board of re
gents.
The campaign finance reports in
dicate that Williams and his wife
made a $2,000 donations to Briscoe
in late 1973.
Sen. Bill Braecklein, D-Dallas,
said, “Williams lives across the
street from me and I back him 100
percent.
Sen. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin,
who had backed former UT Law
School Dean Page Keeton for a posi
tion on the board of regents, said, “I
won’t know how Tin going to vote
until I hear the testimony of the ap
pointees.”
Doggett said, “There are some
questions I want them to answer
and if I don’t think they will be good
for the university, I won’t hesitate to
vote against them.”
Briscoe announced the nomina
tions Monday so his appointees
could take office before a Senate
vote on their confirmation.
Senators
reject
proposals
AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) — Texas
senators overwhelmingly rejected
six revolutionary proposals to
change their rules Tuesday, includ
ing one that would gag filibusters.
“I rise to filibuster,” exclaimed
Sen. A.R. Schwartz, D-Galveston,
after his friend from law school days
at the University of Texas, Sen.
Oscar Mauzy, D-Dallas, proposed
abolishing the delaying tactic.
Schwartz said Texans would be
paying sales taxes on food if a Senate
filibuster had not brought time and
aroused public opinion against the
proposed tax in 1969.
“I guess it (filibuster technique)
has killed more rotten pieces of
legislation than anything else,”
Schwartz said, describing a filibus
ter as a device “to protect the minor
ity against the tyranny of the major-
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ity.
“A filibuster on an unlimited basis
does deny majority rule,’ said
Mauzy.
But despite the support of the
dean of the Senate, A.M. Aikin Jr.,
D-Paris, who said he had been in
the Senate since 1939 and “never
found an occasion to filibuster — it
damages the image of the Senate”
— the proposal failed, 5-26.
Mauzy mustered the most votes
on his proposal to open secret ses
sions on governor’s appointments to
the public and press, but it failed
10-21. “If ever there was a reason for
secrecy in deliberations, it’s passed
now,’’ said Mauzy. The Senate now
may dispense with private sessions
by a two-thirds vote.
Senators blocked four other
Mauzy proposals which would have
chipped away at the traditional way
the Senate has operated, including:
— Allowing senators, rather than
the lieutenant governor, to appoint
committees, 5-26.
— Permitting a Senate majority,
or 16 votes, to refer a bill from one
committee to another, 4-27.
— Making it easier to file a minor
ity report out of committee, 6-25.
— Requiring the Senate to de
bate at least five bills in the order
they appear on the daily calendar