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TAX BILL
The Texas House-Senate negotiators resume talks today in an effort to forge an acceptable tax bill. Compromise talks on appropriations are also expected to sAtt again. While House Speaker Gus Mutscher is mp optimistic that legislators will soon reach a compromise, Lt. Governor Ben Barnes says "it's going to be tough because of the different attitudes between the House and Senate." The approrpriations conferees are seeking ways to adjust differences between the Senate's spending measure that would require 357-million dollars in new taxes for 1970-71, and the House budget that xxxid call