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Show Senator Garn Explains Filibuster Rationale To the Citizens of Manti, I feel compelled to by U.S. Senator Jake Garn reveal to you some of the The United States Senate will shortly consider a proposal to extend the ratification period for the Equal facts in the recent Rights Amendment and I intend to lead a filibuster dismissal of Albert Martin against it unless states right to rescind is recognized as city sexton. and the Senate approves any extension by a majority. The issue is not ERA itself, but the serious procedural, ethical, legal and constitutional questions which the extension proposal raises, including: Can Congress legally change the length of time for ratification? If Congress can change the length of time after the state ratification process has started, what is the proper vehicle for such extension? Does it require a joint resolution with the s vote of both Houses as with the original amendment? Does it require a statute signed by the President? If Congress extends the ratification period, does that invalidate the ratifications by states which expressly included a seven-yea- r time limit in their ratification resolutions? Since the U.S. Constitution reserves all rights to the states and the people which have not been expressly given to the federal government, how can states rescissions be overlooked? Is it right to allow states to change their position from no to yes but not the reverse? The extension proposal, in short, would undermine the traditional amending process, raise a host of serious legal questions, and violate the spirit of fair play. In sports terms, its comparable to a basketball game in which the team that is losing asks to extend the contest with the condition that only it can score until it wins! Its very unfortunate that the issue of extension is being intertwined with the merits or demerits of ERA itself. Some of the same sloganeering and emotional diatribes that have marked the seven-yea- r battle over ERA ratification are being used in the extension debate. What is really needed is an objective, dispassionate appraisal of what is constitutionally, legally, ethically and procedurally correct. In this regard, I believe valuable lessons can be learned from actions which the Senate took during the 92nd Congress to avoid the kind of constitutional fracas facing us today. The Senate in 1971 passed the Federal Constitutional Conventions Procedures Act which, as its name suggests, dealt with procedures to be followed if a national constitutional convention were convened. Those procedures and the rationale which led to their are to the ERA extension issue. relevant adoption The Act was debated and passed unanimously without the heat and pressure that occur when a particular amendment is pending as is the case today. In fact, the Judiciary Committee urged passage of the bill in order to avoid what might well be an unseemly and chaotic imbroglio if the question of procedures were to arise with the presentation of a substantive issue During floor debate on the Act in 1971, Sen. Birch forces), Bayh (now ironically leading the said: "Let us act now. Let us not wait until a constitutional crisis presents itself, when we may not be able to deal dispassionately and with wisdom with such an important matter as amending the Constitution of the in 1971.) United States. (How right he was Section 13 of the Act specifically authorized rescission. States that had once rejected an amendment would be free to change their mind and later ratify. Those that had once ratified would be free to reconsider and rescind. No state would be errevocably bound by its earlier decision until a constitutional majority had been achieved. The rescission clause was designed to codify fair play and to ensure that debate continued full and healthy within each state for the entire time authorized. We are hearing a great deal about the need to "continue debate on a viable issue, but the fact is that under the proposed extension only people in states which have not ratified would be able to actively participate in the process. The others would have to content themselves with writing letters to the editor. It is not the advocates of rescission who wish to cut off debate. We believe debate should continue, not only in the states which have not ratified, but in the four states which have rescinded and the 30 which have ratified but not rescinded. In the Act, the Senate also adopted a wise procedure which relates to the issue of whether a simple or majority is necessary to authorize an extension. Senator Bayh argued that Section 10 of the Act, which permitted a convention to propose amendments by a bare majority vote, should t be amended to require a majority. In concert with Senators Burdick, Hart, Kennedy and Tunney, As presently written, it Senator Bayh noted that: (SectionlO) undermines the traditional safeguard which has protected the integrity of the constitution since 1789. . . All senators know very well the difference between of our colleagues ot the wisdom of persuading a course of action. I think the U.S Senate acted objectively and dispassionately in 1971 and should adhere to the same principles in 1978. If we allow an extension of the Equal Rights Amendment ratification period it should be by a vote and states right to rescind must be recognized. 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Two sentences are being added to these ads, Utah Power and Light on advertisements radio, television and in newspapers are currently informing the public about the availability of the new Senior Citizen Rate Co. 14-1- rn Call e, Manti High School will field dow ned closeby rival be at Fillmore Friday South Sevier and afternoon for a football action last week, San Juan Hurricane defeated He felt the care of your Rich- - Emery 28 6. game with the unbeaten edged Moab kindred dead one of his and unscored on Millard choicest blessings. He County High School took great pride in the Eagles. services that he performed The Templars, who lost for each of you and yet felt their opener by a 24-- 6 humble in the fact that you score to the North Sanpete provided his living wage. Haw ks on Snow Field last Many hours were spent Friday, will go into a new in planning Fridays encounter in cemetery, correcting er- good shape physically. Eight girls from the dinner. Their real Mexico pology Museum. Many rors in records, finding area spent expectations w ere met the beautiful cathedrals were North Sanpete, which Ephraim-Mant- i ways to improve existing dropped its first game to two weeks visiting Mexico next night in Mazatlan visited including the main conditions in the park and Delta, came back from from Aug. where they feasted on real Cathedral of Latin Americemetery and ways to that defeat to take Martha Olsen, Natalie Mexican tacos and licau-do- s ca and one decorated all in make the cemetery finanJanet Adams, of the Birch, in breaks advantage (fresh fruit milk gold. These its win over the cially Ann Peterson, Robyn at open air taco The intriging pyramid shakes) Templars. hours were outside of The Hawks capitalized Frischknecht, Nancee stands. ruins of Tula, Teotihuacan Alene Macfarlin, working hours. He pre- on two Manti fumbles and Two days were spent at and Cholula (the largest sented programs to your a blocked Connie for by chaperoned three Mazatlan where they pyramid in the world) punt city council which would touchdowns and got the Williams, spent the two relaxed at parachute were the highlights of the improve his working fourth one on a drive into weeks traveling through riding, swimming in the trip with time spent conditions and his work the end zone. Mexico in two vans, with ocean and had their first climbing the Pyramids of but they were ignored. Kris Abegglen tallied two guides and 13 others. taste at bartering. the Moon and the Sun and Knowing how to do a job for the Templars on a The group of 23 included e walk down the and being allowed to do The next step of the tour the Avenue of the Dead. girls from Salt Lake, punt return. the job are two different While Manti was losing Provo, Spanish Fork, took them to Guadalajara and Mexico City. They things. The tour concluded with to North Sanpete, Millard Arizona and California. When we had money to found the four in Before Mexico Mexico in its reaching days spent nights spent at Chihuahua going easy the group took time to visit City enjoying the Mexican and the Mormon Colonies. spend and people would cross-count- y meeting say, "You can get it with Delta. The Eagles Glen Ganyon Dam and the Ballet, Floating Gardens, The girls admit it was two cheaper somewhere went to the air with Mesa LDS Temple Visitors Maximillians Palace, weeks of little food, very he would refuse else, Shrine of Guadalupe, and little sleep, and lots of quarterback Robert Mon- Center. because you paid his sen, son of Millard Coach The first night was many beautiful landmarks hours on the road, but salary and he felt the Lew Monsen, completing spent in Hermsillo where which included the Olymthere were a lot of laughs, money should stay in 13 of 25 passes for 235 the group enjoyed a tour of pic Stadium, University good experiences and new Manti. How many of your the city and a chicken Campus and the Anthro- - friends made. yards and a touchdown. city councilmen do the Meanwhile Millards same? tough defense kept Delta On Memorial Day, July out of the end zone for its 4, and other holidays, second shutout of the while you were enjoying season. The first one, your families, he was at 47-- came at the expense the cemetery, park or of The Gunnison Valley Hospital will Hospital and an instructor at Weber Emery. pool, working. Even on The North Sanpete sponsor a workshop on emergency room State College, will be the workshop Sundays, which is against Haw ks were more intense and trauma ' on Oct. 3 from 10 coordinator. his beliefs, someone and were firing out faster a.m. to 5 procedures p.m. w'ould have a stone to than we Manti were, The workshop will provide five or six All emergency medical personnel, deliver, the pump would Coach Kent Van Tassel hours of intensive education, highly including nurses, aides and EMTs are break on the pool or said. Well have to be to Dale A. Rosenlund, invited to participate. Those interested according someone would be in town in registering are asked to call Mr. really up to make a hospital administrator. for the day and want creditable Helen Putz, staff nurse at LDS Rosenlund at showing Friday cemetery records. It is very difficult to get a job done when the equipment you are required to use is broken down most of the time, the budget doesn't allow for anything extra and you are trying to do a five man job with two men. Anyway, citizens of Manti, you are the losers. c T He wouldnt have loved STREET this city more if he had been born and raised here. "EST '10, When you see your new O. BOX 84110 the (if city cemetery CITY, UTAH LAKE SALT council allows it to materialize) please remember him and 1 pray c. TAYLOR 1 that you will be a tiny bit pkk"KNT v,c AMD grateful. Pick up your telephone and call the mayor or city councilmen when he doesnt do it. You ITS have a fine city crew UTAH UTAH appreciate them. SENIOR CITIZEN Phyllis Martin (Mrs. Albert Martin) two-thir- two-thir- Thursday, September 7, 1978 Templars Lose Opener to Help Available Notary Worth Sanpete UmAis Messenger-Enterpris- s ' y |
