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Show Roll Call Report How Utahns Voted On Key Measures Dedicafed to tht Progress And Growth of Central Utah Wednesday, December 24, 1975, THE HERALD, Provo, Utah-P- age 21 WASHINGTON Here's how area members of Congress were recorded on major roll call votes Dec. 11 through Dec. 17. xThe Urban Nightmare' The name Curtiba will population of nine million are well known. But even in mean nothing to most the Neither will Americans. Lyallpur. They happen to be two cities in Brazil and countries, Curtiba and Lyallpur joining such better - known cities as Vancouver, Damascus and Odessa. Only a decade from now, increased to 273, with Siberia's Krasnoyarsk and Tananarive coming in alongside Cuglin, Aleppo and Kabul. In 1985, "more than 800 million people will be living in sprawling urban one in six of nightmare the human race," write London Sunday Times reporters Rosemary Righter and Peter Wilsher, as quoted in the world press review magazine Atlas. The horrendous living conditions endured by Calcutta's present advanced runaway In Nantes, Lille, the and Versailles, diagnosis is identical, says the newspaper. "As an ever - increasing tide of people flows from the countryside to the metropolises, the cities fight a losing battle trying to adapt their resources to indispensable their the multitudinous presidential derby. It's whimsy by a master of the art, former Sen. Eugene McCarthy. The Minnesota politician turned poet, lecturer, humorist and unflagging White House hopeful wants it known he is shucking his role as a one - time member of the U.S. Senate and henceforth is to be referred to as "independent Eugene McCarthy." Just that, and no more. Seriously, he insists he means that or as serious as he is about anything. That's where the whimsy comes in; a most unusual quality in any presidential race and particularly in the current one with the scene cluttered up with more than a dozen scramblers, most of them Senators or ex - Senators. Soberly, McCarthy stresses he has nothing against Senators. He doesn't say so, but the implication is clear that some ot his best Inends are Senators. But on the other hand, he points out he is also a "former Democratic former hockey center - iceman, former first baseman, former child, and since announcing as an independent, he is even a former Democrat." Quite a "former"! That's why he is asking the press to put "identification of him in order" with latest developments. Pleads McCarthy earnestly: "Many in the media still refer to nie as 'former Senator' or '1968 presidential contender.' But they overlook the highly pertinent fact that Eugene McCarthy has gone presidential contender, irreducible expenses." of urbanization would be taking place even if world population were not growing by leaps and bounds. But absolute population growth, This phenomenon which every nation is experiencing to greater or lesser degree, greatly hastens the arrival of "the urban nightmare." beyond the Senate, even beyond the 1968 campaign, and is now engaged in an independent challenge for the presidency in 1976." Then as a clincher he whimsically concludes: presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy hasn't shed his various previous identities, nor wants to. But he has acquired a new one to which the others are subsidiaries, and which by itself justifies his presence in the news." PS: In his 1968 "Independent presidential campaign, in which he mipassionately crusaded against the Vietnam war, Mc Carthy was affectionately known among his youthful zealots as "Clean Gene" -because of his stern fatherly insistence they cut their hair and dress properly when accompanying him. certain gentry in the State Departmcm are looking for trouble, they can get it at the drop of a hat by axing UN Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan. That's the blunt warning of a world If high-flow- known Senate leader. In the hassling of the closing hours of Congress, it went unnoticed by the press, nut in a brief statement Sen. Barry Goldwater made it forcefully clear that any attempt to knife Mohnihan would stir up a hornet's nest of opposition. To leave no doubt exactly whom he had in mind, the plain - talking Arizonan cited particularly "certain - State Department bureaucrats." It's an open secret in the capital that Moynihan is in disfavor in these and that foremost among quarters them is Secretary Kissinger himself. Jarred by Mohnihan's forthright calling a spade a" spade, these backdoor critics have been sniping at him for some time. Most of his pot - shotting has been waged through ultra - liberal and columnists -correspondents who are leaded tips and ideas. Citing these covert attacks, Sen. Goldwater said: "I have been disturbed by recent reports and rumors that Ambassador Moynihan has earned the displeasure of certain State Department bureaucrats by his outspoken defense of the United States. I hope they are without foundation. Because if there is one place in the world where the U.S. needs a steadfast and articulate defender, it is in the United Nations. "It is a most welcome relief to have someone standing up there defending our country against attacks from people who have no use for us, except to drain the money that warm can expend. Because of his distinguished service to the country and to the cause of freedom everywhere, I earnestly hope and trust Ambassador Mohnihan - hearted America will be able to continue his invaluable work. "The United States needs him there, and he had better be kept there." PS: Two of President Ford's oldest and closest political intimates have told him that removal of Moynihan as UN Ambassador would be "catastrophic" to the President's reelection chances. Yes, Virginia. Sargent Shriver is still a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. That may not be evident ; you may never read about him, hear of him or see him. But the handsomely attired, expensively coiffured, is still in the running Kennedy He says so himself. That's what he told a woman who had been brought by a neighbor to a meeting for Shnver. Afterwards the neighbor asked if she would care to meet him. .) losses." 'mm i .) f f'w- Business Fights 1 4 - "What has been the response of business to (the) massive assault upon its fundamental economics, upon its philosophy, upon its right to continue to manage its own affairs, and indeed upon its integrity? The painfully sad truth is that business ... often if at all (has) responded WASHINGTON ineptitude by appeasement, and ignoring the problem." Lewis F. Powell, Jr. wrote that in a then confidential to the U.S. memorandum Chamber of Commerce two months before he was appointed to the Supreme Court. At about the same time, a columnist writing in the Wall Street Journal said, "General Motors, like American business in in general, is 'plainly trouble' because intellectual bromides substituted intellectual have for replv. of exposition its Celebration Recalls Early Tax Revolution Editor Herald: by a private corporation Following are a few projects, out of hundreds equally as silly and stupid, which your "representatives" in Congress Rockefeller have been authorizing as you financial backs pressed against the wall $20,324 for the study of the mating calls of Central your : American frogs. $70,000 to study the smell of perspiration of Australian aborigines. $32,459 to officials of Kenya for the purchase of extra wives. to communist $2,000,000 dictator Tito to buy a yacht. Makes you proud to be an American, doesn't it? Before and during the Revolutionary War the battle cry was "no taxation without - of Rothschild complexion. We now begin our celebration The of the Bicentennial. Bicentennial of what? The 200th anniversary of a tax rebellion, of a tax revolution against our own government There is now a rapidly spreading tax rebellion against the welfare - state which seeks to enslave its own citizens. I am proud to be part of it. We now suffer "criminal government," ! "constituted wherein authorities" no longer honor their oaths to support and uphold the Constitution, and the limited it criminals government These established. are "taking the law into their own hands" have spurned who and corporations other organizations. Unlike in the past, however, business is asking people what it is that dissatisfies them, instead of presuming to know in advance." Caterpillar Tractor now prepares an annual report for its employees separate from in the one to stockholders which it explains what happens to the profits of the corporation. Some companies are doing statistical opinion surveys of the employees. One of those, has Kraftco, periodically information furnishes to employees about its margin of profit and other questions posed by the workers. "Some employees, when they learned that the margin of profit on the dollar at Kraftco, after taxes, is one and a half per cent, came to the personnel and asked them people privately whether they really thought the employees should continue working for a company which made such a low rate of profit!" Madden said Kraftco's board chairman told him. Some major corporations particularly oil companies also have significantly altered their advertising techniques. Current issues of leading U.S. magazines, for example, carry an ad for Texaco which includes a explanation of how oil gets out of the ground and into your car. The ad's punchline summarizes its carefully made point: "As you can see, it takes a lot of time and planning and capital investment ... to find oil and turn it into petroleum products." A major effort likewise is going into inducing schools to increase the economic content of their courses. During the past quarter century, a well organized privately funded group called the Joint Council on Economic Education has been working to that end. The Council has advisory boards in 47 of the 50 states which work and are the constituion confiscating, unconstitutionally, the people's property to schemes. with taxation. can't think of a single great American Patriot, of the era of which we now celebrate the 200th anniversary, who was not a Jefferson, spokesman at the group's headquarters in New York said an adult education program is also currently on the drawing boards. has "The Joint Council exercised leadership that has increased the economic content of many courses taught in the public schools," said Madden. "Many adults don't know about this, but I know about it The Chamber personally." official said courses now than devilish You In 1913 Congress unlawfully abdicated their constitutional responsibility to regulate the value of money to a privately owned corporation of monopoly bankers the Federal Reserve System, which most Americans mistakenly believe is owned by the government. These money trusters secretly regulate and issue the currency of the United States ; they really answer to no one; they need no permission to do what they do, they have stolen the silver and gold from behind American currency; when they cause inflation, it is being done by a private corporation which has never had a public audit in the 62 years of its existence. When they cause inflation it is taking your their promote without property taxation representation , it is worse without it is taxation "tax-rebel.- " Washington, Franklin, Madison. John and Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, Nathan Hale, Monroe, John Hancock were they tax rebels? How can you honor them without approving what they did? What did they do1 They stood up like men to the oppression and despotism of their own government. Do you dare to do the same? Ladies and gentlemen, if you rebellion, disapprove of tax why go through the hypocrisy of participating in a Bicentennial which will honor the greatest tax - rebels, patriots and heros of all time'.' W. Vaughn Ellsworth 1051 N Grand Mesa. Ariz. offering local schools. more The first would deny the consumer representatives on the 68 - member beer board the right to vote. The second relates to a provision that in the referendum a producer would be able to cast as many ballots as he has cattle. Supporters of 'recommittal said tinkering in the House Senate conference had slanted the bill against consumers and small cattle farmers. "It is only good for the big agribusiness corporations," said Rep. Frederick Richmond recommit. -- a designed program cal.i-- i "Your Right to Know," under which it representation." Apparently is worse with representation than theirs was without it. But we really don't iiovc true representation as to ours legislative approval "I suppose so." was the been sound a point of view." That was in 1971, after it was evident that a great reservoir of hostility existed toward business particularly among young Americans. But it took two national crises since then Watergate, with its sordid record of corporate abuses, and the Arab oil embargo which awoke Americans to the reality of the energy crisis before business truly began to stir from its lethargy to confront the demon at its door. "The Chamber of Commerce has spent three years exploring carefully the implica'.:ons of the Powell report, and has talked widely with pollsters and experts on economics and social change and cultural change," said Carl H. Madden, chief economist for the U.S. Chamber. we "Meanwhile, have stimulated responses on the part of a number of Letters to Editor get Opponents expressed faith in synthetic fuel as a long overdue energy source. They said loan guarantees are necessary to inspire the confidence of private investors wary of new energy technology. Rep. Olin Teague said, "...It is time that Congress gave the American people a Christmas present of assuring them that they do not have to depend on the Arabs...." McKay and Howe voted "nay." Beef Board. Voted, 263 for and 112 against, to send back to a House - Senate conference committee the bill HR 7656, the Beef Research and Information Act. The measure creates the governmental framwork in which U.S. beef producers would establish a privately - funded "beef board" to promote consumption of their product. The board would come into existence only if authorized in a nationwide referendum of beef producers. Two conference - approved provisions spurred the vote to -- 'ee Roderick Wli 1 and Gene Adds Whimsy To Campaign Role - ), Besancon, Toulon, Le Havre Robert S. Allen WASHINGTON Something uniquely different is being added to ), square feet. The Paris newspaper Le Monde, also quoted by Atlas, cites a report by the French Association of Big City Mayors warning that more and more cities in France face bankruptcy. the rollcall will have Not only that, but cities with 10 million or more people will likely include Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Los Angf'.es, Shanghai, Peking, London, Bombay, Calcutta, Osaka - Kobe, Seoul, Buenos Aires, Paris, Rio de Janiero and Cairo in addition to New York and Tokyo. more urbanization is reaching the breaking point. Tokyo, whose population increased from 3.5 million in 1945 to nearly 12 million today, now builds 120,000 dwelling units a year. Yet its housing shortage is esimated at well over half a million. Whole families are crowded into rooms of 40 Pakistan which have joined the list of world cities having a million or more inhabitants. As recently as 1950, only 75 cities on earth were this large. Today, the list has grown to 191, with Madagascar's HOUSE Labor Rights. Adopted, 229 for 'and 189 against, the conference report on HR 5900, a bill legalizing on - the - job picketing by construction unions. The measure would achieve organized labor's 20 - year goal of obtaining for construction unions the same jobsite picketing rights now allowed industrial unions. HR 5900 would also establish a Construction Industry Collective Bargaining Committee to facilitate pre - strike settlements,, as requested bv the Administration. The conference report was later adopted by the Senate and thus cleared for the White House. However, Congress may delay sending the measure to President Ford until January to avoid a possible "pocket veto" during the holiday recess. One supporter. Rep. Mario Biaggi called the measure a "landmark" securing "full employee rights" for construction workers. Supporters praised the measure for providing collective bargaining machinery to aid peaceful solution of labor disputes. j One opponent, Rep. John Ashbrook said the measure would discriminate against non - union construction workers and increase the volume of work stoppages in the construction industry. He criticized HR 5900 as "a power grab by union officials." Rep. Allen Howe (D-2-) voted "yea." Rep. K. Gunn McKay (D-l- ) voted "nay." Synthetic Fuel. Voted, 263 for and 140 against, the kill a Senate - backed authorization of $6 billion in federal loan guarantees for the energy industry. The guarantees had been intended to aid certain energy companies in their development of "oil - equivalent" synthetic fuel from oil shale and coal. The provision had been adopted by a House - Senate conference committee during consideration of the parent bill (HR 3474), which authorizes FY 1976 funds for the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA). The conference report on HR 3474 was sent to the Senate. Supporters said the synthetic fuel project mi "tit become a white elephant with the U.S. treasury the lost . Rep. Ken said the loan guarantees stretch "the Hechler Christmas spirit a little too far" and "extend free enterprise for profits for the big energy companies and socialize the McKay and Howe voted "yea." SENATE Income Tax Cuts. Passed, 73 for and 19 against, a relatively uncontroversial railroad taxation bill (HR 5559) to which the Senate attached an extension of 1975 income tax cuts for individuals and corporations. Scheduled to expire Dec. 31, 1975, these tax cuts would be extended, as revised, through June 30, 1976. The Senate opted for the six - month extension instead of a House - passed extension of the income tax cuts for one year. The shorter extension was designed to increase the likelihood of overriding the expected presidential veto. HR 5559 was later passed by the House and vetoed by President Ford. Congress subsequently sustained the veto. Sen. Frank Moss (D) voted "yea." Sen. E.J. Gam (R) voted "nay." Spending Ceiling. Rejected, 27 for and 66 against, an amendment setting a federal spending ceiling of $395 billion for FY 1977, which begins Oct. 1, 976. The amendment, proposed to HR 5559 (above), sought to advance President Ford's recommendation that any tax - cut extension be coupled with a spending cut in the form of a ceiling on federal outlays. Garn voted "yea." Moss voted "nay." Nuclear Insurance Rejected, 34 for and 62 against, an amendment effectively killing the Price - Anderson Act, which since 1957 has governed accident insurance for the nuclear power industry. The act sets a $560 million ceiling on a utility's damage liability for anyone nuclear accident. The amendment would have affected only nuclear catastrophes having damages of more than $560 million. It would have allowed individuals to sue for damages in excess of that figure in accordance with civil law procedures. The amendment was proposed to HR 8631, a bill extending the Price Anderson Act for 10 years, which was later passed and cleared for the White House. Moss voted "yea." Garn voted "nav." Berry's World A economics include Ameican history, social studies courses, and even English and psychology courses. Barbs "Jaws" has swallowed every bos office motion picture record on the bocks including some stuff unpalatable enough to make even a shark sick 195 "All I by NfA inc fyf), want is for Congress to match spending with revenue! |