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Page 6 The Battalion Tuesday, March 24 Treasury refuses legislators check-cashing privileges AUSTIN (AP) — In the wake of disclosures that some state law makers wrote bad checks without penalties, the Texas Treasury said Monday it plans to stop providing check-cashing services for legisla tors. Instead, State Treasurer Kay Bailey Hutchison said arrange ments have been made with Texas Commerce Bank-Austin for it to cash the personal checks of state lawmakers and statewide elected officials. Details of the service are being determined and will be outlined in a letter to officeholders in the next two weeks, officials said. "For all intents and purposes, the Treasury will no longer be providing the service," said Mark Toohey, a spokesman for Hutchi son. However, he added that if a lawmaker was in town and hadn't heard about the Treasury's deci sion, "I'm sure we would cash their personal check" until the new service is up and running. Toohey has said that the Trea sury's check-cashing perk dates at least to 1980. Hutchison was elected in 1990. SeeTreasury/Page 11 Media industries battle over markets SAN ANTONIO (AP) - The newspaper industry shouldn't be reluctant to lobby Congress for legislation governing where Bell telephone companies may enter the electronic information field, a Texas congressman said Monday. "The telephone companies are ubiquitous," U.S. Rep. John Bryant, D-Dallas, told newspaper industry leaders. "It is necessary for you to pipe up and explain what the bill does." Bryant spoke at the Texas Daily Newspaper Association annual meeting. Bryant is co-sponsoring a bill that would prevent the seven re gional Bell operating companies from entering the information ser vices industry in their own mar kets unless competition for phone service exists. The Bell companies would be permitted to enter the field in markets outside of their phone service areas. "You cannot compete success fully against someone who doesn't play by the same rules," said Cathleen Black, president of the American Newspaper Publish ers Association. "We welcome the Bells just as soon as they have real competition for telephone ser vices." Black said the phone compa nies could offer data services, sports information and classified ads. About 400 newspapers na tionwide currently are involved in the electronic information field, she said. The Bell companies, which were prevented from entering the field after the breakup of Ameri can Telephone and Telegraph in 1984, claim the ban kept innova tive services from consumers. Last year a federal judge ruled the telephone companies could enter the electronic information field. Now, the so-called Cooper bill in Congress attempts to undo that decision. Bryant said the bill ontyi vents the Bell companies from tering a small segment of thet ketplace. "So don't put up with;! telephone company executin the local civic meeting tellinj eryone around him thatthe, being prevented from gettii* volved in providing informi services to Americans .. .bee it simply isn't true," thecong man said. Black said so far the telepi companies have spent $21 mi on a lobbying effort to blocl Cooper bill. Tuesd s si a: The Battalion Classified Ads Phone: 845-0569 / Office: Room 015 (basement) Reed McDonald Building AGGIE 1 WANT ADS $ 10 for 20 words running 5 days, if your merchan dise is priced $ 1000 or less (price must appear in ad). For private individuals, not businesses. Guar anteed results or you get an additional 5 days at no charge. If item doesn't sell, advertiser must call before 11 a.m. on the day the ad is schedule to end to qualify for the 5 additional insertions at no charge. 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CALL FOR MORE INFORMATION, AND RESERVATIONS TERESA 1 -800- 395-4896 OR PETE 260-1181. Ethics law discloses partnerships between legislators, lobbyists AUSTIN (AP) — Disclosures required by the state's new ethics law show that several leg islators and lobbyists are busi ness partners, and some lawyer- lawmakers have made thou sands of dollars practicing be fore state agencies. The reports, for business con ducted in 1991, underscore a de bate between part-time legisla tors trying to make a living and government watchdogs looking for conflicts of interest. "You must either be super rich or you get in the real world and make a living," Sen. Carl Parker, D-Port Arthur, told the Austin American-Statesman. "We'd be far better off with a full-time Legislature and pro hibit any outside employment." Legislators are paid $7,200 a year, plus $85 a day when in Austin for legislative sessions and, with limits, for legislative business between sessions. aAccording to a report by the American-Statesman, the busi ness ventures between legisla tors and lobbyists run the gamut: — Rep. Pete Laney, D-Hale Center, is a House speaker can didate and was a co-author of last year's ethics legislation. He owns a 300-acre farm and vine yard in West Texas with three business lobbyists — Galt Gray- don, Barry Miller and Bradley Bryan. All said the venture does not affect their political relation ship. — Rep. Tom Craddick, R- Midland, has invested in land and several oil and gas ventures with former legislators who now are full-time lobbyists: for mer Sen. Ed Howard and former Reps. Hilary Doran and Nub Donaldson. Craddick said the investments were made when the three were in the Legisla ture. The newspaper also reported that Austin lobbyist Kraege Polan got a loan on his house from Craddick. "I got better financing with him than I could through a bank," said Polan, who also said that Craddick deals with legisla tive issues on merit. Craddick calls the loan sim ply an investment, which Polan paid off in January. — Sen. Rodney Ellis, D- Houston, who bought a South Texas radio station with lobbyist Pat Nugent a decade ago when Ellis was a congressional aide, said he could not even remem ber what city it is located in. He said it has not affected his ap proach to Nugent's legislative goals. On another front, several lawyers in the Legislature re ported receiving hefty fees to appear before state agencies for their clients, the newspaper re ported. Court to review sacrifice ban Justices will rule on church rituals in 1993 WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review communities' power to ban the sacrificial killing of ani mals at church rituals, a case that could yield important new guide lines on religious freedom. Although the Florida case in volves a church practicing an un derground religion, the court's de cision — expected sometime in 1993 — could carry significance for mainline religious denomina tions as well. In other matters, the court: — Said it will decide in a Vir ginia case whether thousands of taxpayers may claim deductions for in-home offices even if they spend the majority of their time working elsewhere. — Refused to revive a lawsuit in which the publishers of Pent house alleged that former Attor ney General Edwin Meese and others unlawfully intimidated stores to keep them from selling the sexually oriented magazine. — Agreed to use an Illinois drug case foTlecide whether crimi nal defendants must be tried sepa rately if they plead not guilty and, in effect, point the finger of guilt at co-defendants. — Turned down the appeal of a Florida sheriff ordered to pay $22,710.14 to a newspaper from which he pulled his department's legal advertising after the paper ran an article criticizing him. — Let stand a ruling in a Mis souri case that said prison guards who harass inmates may violate the Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual punishment even if no physical force is used. — Left intact a $400,000 award Bette Midler won against an ad vertising agency that used a "sound-alike" singer for a televi sion commercial five years ago. In the animal-sacrifice case, the Miami suburb of Hialeah passed ordinances in 1987 to restrict the killing of animals after the Church of Lukumi Babalu Aye leased an abandoned car lot and prepared to open a Santeria church. Santeria is an ancient African religion carried to Cuba by slaves and then to the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The sacrifice of animals — chickens, pigeons, doves, ducks, goats, sheep and turtles — is an integral part of the rituals and cer emonies conducted by practition ers of Santeria. U.S. District Judge Eugene Spellman of Miami, although not citing his statistical source, esti mated in 1989 that as many as 60,000 practitioners of Santeria live in South Florida. The judge upheld the ordi nances noting they "are not reli giously neutral." The ordinances regulate conduct rather than inter fere with beliefs, he ruled. In 1990, the Supreme Court ruled that states may outlaw the religious use of the illegal drug peyote. That decision said peo ple's religious beliefs do not ex cuse them from having to comply with a "neutral and generally ap plicable" law. Perot flirts with runnin for presideni Politicians debate impact of candidat WASHINGTON (AP) - T< billionaire Ross Perot's flirtal with a third-party campaign president is making political erans in both parties nervous, alysts say a well-financedPe campaign could change the namics of a close general-elect contest. President Bush's re-elect campaign is suggesting Pert potential challenge would 1 the Democrats more than president. Campaign spokeswomanTa Clarke said Perot "may behai' some fun" in considering adi lenge to his fellow Texan. Buts said, "it doesn't make anydi ence to us one way or the oth whether he gets in. She predicted Perot wouldti votes away from Clinton, cit Perot's support for abortion rig and gun control. Other Bushai; were more wary. "You have to take seriom anybody who's got $2 billionn wants to run for president,"& Bush senior campaign advii Charles Black. Democratic party Chairm Ronald Brown saw Perotdoii damage to the GOP. "My judgment is his candidai will debilitate George Bus\\,v hurt him very badly and? therefore help us elect a De president," Brown said. Perot said last week thi would run for president if porters put his name on the in all 50 states. He said hew spend up to $100 millionol own money if he were tow such a campaign. Whether Perot would more votes from Bush or Clinton is a hard question in unpredictable presidentialse analysts suggest. "It seems that at first would hurt the Republicansi] more than the Democratic sidi said Bruce Buchanan, a poi science professor at theUnivers of Texas. "But if you loc into the situation, he's appeal to the same kind ofdis fected voters that both)« Brown and Pat Buchanan are. Still, Buchanan says, F "might hamper the Republic slightly more th?n the Democfi because he attacks the Repur cans' conservative base." See Politicians/Page Colomlio FrJizen Yogurt can you eat? REGISTER MARCH 23 - 27 TO COMPETE IN THE COLOMBO FROZEN YOGURT CHALLENGE AT ANY OF THESE FOOD SERVICE LOCATIONS : COMMONS DINING CENTER SBISA DINING CENTER DUNCAN DINING CENTER AG CAFE PIE ARE SQUARE 12TH MAN BURGERS & SNACKS UNDERGROUND FOOD COURT COMMON DENOMINATOR PAVILION SNACK BAR HULLABALOO FOOD COURT Ten names and two alternates will be drawn on March 30th to compete on Wednesday, April 1 in a Colombo Frozen Yogurt eating contest at Underground Food Court at 7:00 PM. 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