7 Friends help Bentsen campaign
THE BATTALION
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1975
Page 5
I House passes ‘winner-take-all’ primary bill
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dsevm AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) — Sen. den tial primary bill. Texas, has announced as a candidate A primary receives national news tion.
Para BJoyd Bentsen's presidential cam- An 83-52 vote sent it on to the for the Democratic Party’s presi- coverage, and the bill as it passed The bill Bentsen wanted-and
Mr Ipaign got a little help from his Senate, which is generally favora- dential nomination in 1976. He has the House probably would give him got-would put on the ballot only the
Hii [frit nds Thursday with House pas j ble. stated that a Texas presidential nearly all of the big Texas delegation presidential candidates who actu-
pge of a “winner-take-all” presi- Bentsen, junior senator from primary would help him. to the Democratic national conven- ally pay a filing fee to run in Texas.
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There would be no head-to-head
test of candidate strength, since
voters would vote directly on na
tional convention delegates from
congressional or state senatorial dis
tricts. Presidential candidates’
names would appear only in
parentheses following names of de
legates pledged to support them. If
a district is entitled to three dele
gates, then the top three vote-
getters wuld be elected to attend
the convention-hence the “winner-
take-all” label.
At least 75 percent of the Texas
delegation to a convention would be
chosen by in that manner. The rest
would be elected at a party’s state
convention.
The big fight in the House —
which probably will be repeated in
the Senate — was waged by those
who believe all candidates for a
party’s nomination should be on the
ballot, with each candidate’s dele
gate strength directly proportional
to his popular vote in the primary.
House members first voted for
that proportional representation
approach, but enough votes were
switched Wednesday to restore
“winner-take-all.”
Rep. Wayne Peveto, D-Orange,
explained his switch by saving
Bentsen’s legislative troops con
vinced him it was more important to
have a Texan in the White House
then a delegate distribution that re
flected the voters’ preferences.
“This is the only way we can stop
Wallace,” he told a reporter.
House members added an
amendment, 92-41, enabling a de
legate to become a free agent if the
candidate to which he was pledged
failed to win at least 20 percent of
the convention vote on the second
ballot.
“This prohibits one man, even a
native Texan, from controlling all
the Texas delegates in a convention
that might have become dead
locked,” said Rep. Carlyle Smith,
D-Grand Prairie.
Sen. Don Adams, D-Jasper, the
Senate sponsor, said he had no
timetable to get the bill moving in
that chamber.
Department heads resign
DR. VERGIL G. STOVER has
been named acting head of the De
partment of Urban and Regional
Planning at Texas A&M University.
Dean Raymond Reed of the Col
lege of Architecture announced the
appointment Thursday, effective
until a permanent department head
is named to replace Dr. J.H.
“Chuy” Hinojosa who is on leave of
absence.
C.J. LEABO has stepped down
as head of the Journalism Depart
ment, effective Sept. 1, 1975.
His successor has not yet been
named.
Leabo resigned has administra
tive post in favor of teaching and
research.
Tower holds split views
on industry tax policies
Congress should not repeal the
percentage oil depletion allowance
or pass a windfall profits tax on the
nation’s oil industry, Senator John
Tower of Texas stated in a press re
lease this week.
Tower said oil companies could
be forced to cut back on exploration
and production of oil and gas. Loss
of the depletion allowance, he said,
would fall more heavily on the inde
pendent producer. Many of the
small producers have said they can
not afflbrd to stay in business if the
allowance is abolished, Tower said.
The allowance given oil com
panies by the government is 22 per
cent of the selling price of oil and gas
products and is intended to repres
ent recovery of the capital invested
in oil and gas production. The al
lowance was 27% per cent until
1969, when it was lowered to its
present level.
Tower said it is the small produc
ers in the nation which develop
most of our domestic sources of oil
and gas. He said the depletion al
lowance provides an incentive for
increased production by such com
panies.
If the allowance were abolished,
he said, the additional cost of oil and
gas products would have to be paid
by the consumer through higher
prices.
Tower said he is opposed to the
windfall profits tax because those
profits are poured back into more
production and not “into the pock
ets of fat-cat oilmen.” The senator
said the tax is based on the assump
tion that oil companies are earning
excess profits and that such profits
are not being utilized.
Chase Manhattan Bank, he said,
reported that in the last five years
the nation’s major oil companies
have invested more than 80 per cent
more money in domestic operations
than they made in_profits.
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