Ford willing to delay tariff hikes
THE BATTALION
TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1975
Page 5
WASHINGTON (AP) — When
President Ford vetoes the hill
which would block his oil import
tariffhikes for 90 days, he will delay
for 60 days his scheduled two
monthly $l-a-barrel boosts, White
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House sources indicated Monday.
Furthermore, these sources indi
cated, Ford will at that time —
Tuesday — also defer for 60 days his
equally controversial plan to re
move price controls on domestic
crude oil April 1.
The goal of both delay actions
would be to give Congress time to
produce an energy program.
Such steps toward some com
promise would avoid an energy-
economic policy confrontation bet
ween the Democratic-dominated
Congress and the Republican-held
White House, these sources sug
gested.
The steps also would save politi
cal face for both sides and
strengthen the President’s hand in
the veto showdown — especially in
the Senate, where the outcome
could he close.
The sources indicated the White
House remained undecided Mon
day on precisely how to make the
announcement, with options rang
ing from a prime-time television
appearance to a low-key release by
spokesmen as the message is sent to
Congress.
The sources commented after top
Ford administration officials and
Democrats who control the House
Ways and Means Committee began
searching through their rival prop
osals Monday, seeking the elements
of an energy legislative com
promise.
A comprehensive plan assembled
by the committee’s Democrats is a
“definite move in the right direc
tion,” Treasury Secretary William
E. Simon told committee Chairman
AlUllman, D-Ore., who agreed it is
a “real basis for talking.”
Meantime, at the White House,
President Ford huddled with Re
publican congressional leaders on
energy and the economy. A GOP
senator indicated Ford would defer
the second and third dollars of his
controversial scheduled
$3-per-barrel oil tariff increase.
Ford plans an announcement
Tuesday in reply to a Democratic
proposal that he defer these higher
tariffs while compromise energy
talks are under way, a White House
spokesman said.
The President has promised to
veto the bill Congress sent him
blocking the tariffhikes for 90 days.
House Speaker Carl Albert said
there is no question but that the
House will vote to override, but he
could not speak for the Senate,
where the vote is too close to call at
this time.
The President “is in the process of
looking at all the alternatives right
now and he has not reached a deci
sion on” the matter of whether to
defer the second and third dollars of
the tariff hike, Simon told reporters.
The first dollar went into effect Feb.
1.
White House spokesmen also in
sisted after the session with the
leadership that Ford had not come
to a decision. But Senate GOP
Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania
said of the tariff deferral idea: “It is
certainly possible, given a spirit of
compromise, that something may
happen there.”
Scott said he left the session feel
ing there would be modifications in
Ford’s program.
Sen. William Roth, R-Del., is
sued a statement before the leader
ship meeting saying a proposal he
made last week that further oil tariff
increases be deferred for 60 days “is
very likely to be accepted.”
Simon and Federal Energy Ad
ministrator Frank G. Zarb, were
among Ford administration officials
who were lead-off witnesses as the
Ways and Means Committee,
which must originate all legislation
involving taxes, launched two
weeks of hearings on the energy is
sues. Simon and Zarb said Ford’s
proposals were preferable to a plan
made public by committee Democ
rats on Sunday.
The Democrats’ plan outlined by
Ullman calls for a gradual tax hike to
40 cents a gallon by 1979 on excess
use of gasoline beyond a family’s av
erage basic needs, with rebates
through coupons or tax reductions;
gradual imposition of oil import
quotas as economic conditions per
mit; creation of a federal agency to
buy imported oil; levy of an excise
tax on new cars with heavy gasoline
drinking habits; and a tax up to 85
per cent on petroleum producers’
windfall profits.
Along with his special tariff pro
gram on imported oil, Ford recom
mended eventually replacing that
levy with a $2-per-barrel excise tax
on all domestic crude oil and im
ported oil; imposing an excise tax of
37 cents per thousand cubic feet on
natural gas, putting a windfall pro
fits tax on oil producers, removing
price controls on domestic crude oil
by April 1, and taking price regula
tion off new natural gas.
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Bell operations may stay secret
SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Public
eyes may never see — nor should
they — many pages of depositions
dealing with operations of the
nation’s main telephone utility, its
lawyers say.
State District Court Judge Peter
Michael Curry said Monday that he
would unseal the sworn statements
given in a $29.2 million lawsuit
against Southwestern Bell Tele
phone Co. only if lawyers for both
sides agree to open them.
Southwestern Bell lawyer Jack
Hebdon said, “We wanted to seal
them from the first to let the court
then rule on what evidence is
admissible . . . what’s not admis
sible should go out the window as far
as public disclosure is concerned.
Various American Telephone &
Telegraph Co. AT&T and Bell sys
tem executives have given deposi
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ousted executive James H. Ashley
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headed Bell’s Texas operation until
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AUSTIN (AP) — Sen. Bill Moore,
D-Bryan, who frequently was at
odds during the recent unsuccessful
Constitution Convention with
Speaker Price Daniel Jr., got official
sanction Monday to organize a
search party in Daniel’s behalf.
Moore said later that his tongue-
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The Moore resolution, which was
approved by the rest of the Senate
without dissent except that Sen.
Don Adams, D-Jasper, asked to be
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Hebdon said the depositions con
tained much which would be inad
missible at the trial.
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