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Show The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH/NATION Friday, January 22, 1999 publican Sen. Orrin Hatch’s imprint on the Senate impeachment R-Ohio, Hatch’s stated goal has been to emphasize “tough” ques- written questions to U.S. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who will ask them onbehalf of the senators. Rehnquistalso will tell the chamber which senator asked the sides probablywill have a chance to respond to each question. About 70 questions from Republican senators were submitted, according to John Czwartacki, spokesman for Senate question. trial of President Clinton will be felt during the 16-hour questionand-answerperiodthatstarts today and runs through Saturday. Miss. Dozens of questions have the Senate Judiciary chairman, can now ensurehis own questions been received from Democrats. “T’ve been collating questions “Conviction with removalis also an option,” Hatch told reporters As part of a three-member GOP team forming Republican strategy for the question period, Hatch, are aired. He also has pushed for a time limit on how long House prosecu- ters and Clinton lawyers can take to answer, though hesaid thefollow-up questions could be worrisome. Along with Sens. Fred Thomp- Majority Leader Trent Lott, R- on behalf of the party, and there are a pile of them,” Hatch told reporters. “You don’t want anybody rambling off just to eat up the time. I’m afraid there’s a po- tential to do that.” Lott and Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., will submit the Earlier in the week, Hatch floated another oneof his proposals for weighing Clinton’s political fate, since both sides say the votes are lacking to convict and removethe presidentfromoffice. in theCapitol. He added, however,that he did not see “any tendency to movein that direction. There would be a real constitutional argument against that.” Though impeachment isa politieal process, no one with a felony conviction can serve as president. English-Only Legislation Killed By House Vote @ Continued from A-1 Starting today, the proceedings move into a far more spontaneous and unpredictable stage as senators get their first chance to ask questions they will submitin writing to Chief Justice William Rehnquist, who will read them aloud. Republicans and Democrats will alternate questions for as long as i6 hours through Saturday in a process that could illumi- nate how senators view the case and possibly influence the deci- sion on whetherto cali witnesses TheAssociated Press Dale Bumpers, a former Democratic senator from Arkansas, defends President Clinton before the Senate on Thursday. as the Houseprosecutorshave requested. Then on Monday, the Senate finally will be confronted with the critical questions it has tried to put off throughout the scribbling on yellowlegal paper grief.” process, as it begins considering a motion to dismiss the caselikely to be filed by the president’s defenders and a motion to call witnesses certain to be advanced by the prosecution. not long before he rose. Unlike anyoneelse in the six daysof floor arguments, Bumpers duct “indefensible, outrageous focused on what he called the missing “humanelement.” “The president and Hillary and The White House defense capped by Bumpers appeared to shore up Senate Democrats, some of whom were dispirited after what they deemed a surprisingly effective case presented by the House Republican “managers” ®@ Continued from A-1 27,405 signaturesso that the issue would be put be- fore voters in November 2000. last week. Either way, ethnic minority leaders — as well as manyof Rowan’s fellow Republicans — say they will not let up in their opposition. Twenty-two Republicans joined House Democrats in voting against theinitiative. And most ethnic minority organizations — from the Japanese American Citizens League to the Utah Coalition of La Raza — have fought Rowan’s measurein all its incarnations. Jim Gonzales, a Salt Lake City Latino activist, said that Rowan is working from ‘erroneous assump- tions.” Rowan is wrong, said Gonzales, when she argues that recent immigrants are not motivated to learn and use English. Already, he said, English-as-a-second-language classes are overflowing. Speaking at an emotional 40-minute public hearing before the House convened tu consider Rowan's measure, Gonzales said that, historically, first-generation immigrants do not learn to speak perfect English, but their children and grandchildrendo. “T say give it time,” Gonzalessaid. “It worked for your grandparents, your forebearers. it will work for {new immigrants].”” Mauro Mujica, head of U.S. English, said that the movement to make English the official languageis misunderstood. “We're not trying to stop anybody from speaking Bumpers made a moreblatantly political case for Clinton’s acquittal than the four presidential lawyers who preceded him, skipAL HartmannThe Salt Lake Tribune Rep. Keele Johnson, R-San Juan, argues against Tammy Rowan’s official-English bill Thursday. Rowan, R-Orem,is seen in the foreground. ping lightly over the evidence while focusing instead on constitutional history and personal trauma. With the style and selfdeprecating humor of a Southern preacher, the 73-year-old former senator and governor spoke from handwritten notes he was still Chelsea are human beings,” he said. “The relationship between husband and wife, father and child has been incredibly strained, if not destroyed. There’s been nothing but sleepless nights, mental agony for this family for almost five years. Day after day, from accusations of having assas- sinated, or had Vince Foster assassinated, on down.It has been bizarre.” Clinton misled his friends, his aides and the nation, Bumpers said, to protect “his wife whom he adored and a child that he worshipped with every fiber in his body and for whom he would happily have died to spare her this or to ameliorate her shame and her Bumperscalled Clinton's con- unforgivable, shameless.” but not impeachable. “We are noneof us perfect,” he said. “Sure, you say. he should have thoughtofall that beforehand. And indeed he should. Just as Adam and Eve should have.” Then, pointing at his former colleagues, he said, “Just as you and you and you and you, and millions of other people who have been caught in similar circumstances, should have thoughtofit before.” In a strategy none of the trial lawyers used so bluntly, Bumpers did not shy away from directly referring to public-opinion surveys showing that voters oppose convietion: “The people are saying, ‘Please don’t protect us from this man, 76 percentof us think he’s doing a fine job, 65 to 70 percent of us don’t want him removed from office.” ” their language,” Mujica said to more than 200 supporters and opponents of the legislation. “We're not talking about speaking other languages at church, with friends or at home We'retalking about the language of government.” The realinjustice, Rowantold her fellow lawmak- ers, is not prohibiting state government from providing information in languages other than English What is unfair,she said, is printing some brochures in Spanish, for example, but not in the many other languages that ethnic minorities speak. “Whyisn’t anyone up in arms about the 119 lan- guage groups that [do not receive information in their native languages]?” Rowan asked. “Thatis not good government.” | en aete ea We eee eet Peeeee son, R-Tenn., and Mike DeWine, tions and to weed out those that areirrelevant or redundant. 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