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10—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Spring*, Texas, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1979.
Texas and Texans
people, politics and prospects
Senator wins long battle to
scuttle cherished tradition
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - A.R.
Schwartz, a state senator since
1961, remembers — with regret
— the days “when the great
thing about being a senator was
that you could do some things
nobody ever found out about.”
Tuesday, Schwartz won an 18-
year fight to erase vestiges of
one of the Senate’s most cher-
ished traditions — that of secret
sessions on gubernatorial ap-
pointments to state jobs.
The Senate voted 18-13 to open
debate to the public and press,
unless a. senator asks his
colleagues to lock the doors as a
“courtesy” or a majority of 16
’ senators vote to go into exec-
utive session.
f “Not only have senators done
a disservice to the nominees
through secret votes," Sch-
wartz said afterwards, “they
have protected themselves
from anyone knowing how they
voted.”
In the past, he said, "They
could do people in at their leis-
ure.”
Schwartz appealed to three
new senators Tuesday to start
their careers off right by voting
for open meetings, and won two
votes — Ed Howard of Texar-
kana and Bob Vale of San An-
tonio.
He also told the four-member
Republican delegation Gov.v
elect Bill Clements — the first
GOP chief executive in 105
years — might have difficulty
winning approval of Ihis ap-
pointments in the\ pre-
dominantly Democratic Senate
if the debate is in secret!
The only Republican senator
to vote with Schwartz, however,
was Bob Price of Pampa.
Under old Senate rules, ap-
pointment sessions were con-
sidered private unless the
Senate voted to open them.
Schwartz said there is “vir-
tually no secrecy” now in dis-
cussing nominations. Com-
mittee debate on appointees, for
example, has been open since
1969, and the full Senate
ocasionally votes to debate an
appointment in public. Roll call
votes also are taken in open
session.
Schwartz said, however, “not
even a semblance" of secrecy
should remain.
Sen. Betty Andujar, protest-
ing the proposed amendment,
said, “There is a great deal of
difference between comments
made ‘in family’ as opposed to
those that will appear frozen in
print in tomorrow morning’s
paper.”
Private sessions, said Mrs.
Andujar, R-Fort Worth, “are
the only time senators have 10
minutes alone to themselves.”
Closed-door sessions, she
said, are “like Sunday dinner.
You don’t give it up — it’s a
tradition that serves a pur-
pose.” ’
“If secrecy is like Sunday
dinner,” replied Schwartz,
"I’m ready to give up Sunday
dinner.”
The Senate adopted its rules,
including the Schwartz amend-
ment, on voice vote, after re-
jecting several motions by Sen.
Arab sheikh's
seized for debts
HOUSTON (AP) - A
Houston aviation company says
the president of the United
Arab Emirates owes it $188,000,
and the United States govern-
ment is holding the sheikh’s
$7.5 million jet until he pays up.
Tom Evans, president of
Universal Weather and
Aviation Inc. of Houston, filed a
lien on the jet last week in
federal court in Savannah, Ga.,
claiming Sheikh Zayed bin
Sultan al Nahyan owes him for
six months of services ren-
dered.
When payment didn’t arrive
last week, Evans said, his
attorney, Albert Wingate of
Houston, filed an order of at-
tachment on the sheikh’s jet,
which now is grounded in
Savannah.
Wingate said if payment is
not received by Jan. 20, “a suit
will be filed and a trial will be
held to determine damages and
prove the claim amount.”
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State refinery strike continues
PORT ARTHUR, Texas (AP)
— While union arid oil company
representatives discussed a
new contract for 60,000 oil
workers, 3,500 Port Arthur
employees continued an
unauthorized strike at a
refinery and a polyethelyne
plant.
The International Chemical
Workers Union and the In-
ternational Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers set up
picket lines at the ARCO-
polymers plant in Port Arthur
on Monday. Striking office
workers of the Oil, Chemical
and Atomic Workers union
have shut down a Gulf Oil Co.
refinery and joined ARCO
picket lines on Tuesday.
National OCAW President A.
F. Grospiron said the walkout
is not authorized, but is legal
since the unions are without a
cpntract. -
The contracts expired at
midnight Sunday, but union and
management officials agreed
to continue negotiations in
Denver, averting a possible
strike.
Union officials had refused to
accept contracts that allowed
only 7 percent wage and benefit
increases. Shortly before the
Sunday deadline, several
companies offered contracts
with 8 percent increases the
first year and 6 percent the
second.
The union’s standoff marks
the first organized test of
President Carter’s voluntary
wageprice guidelines which set
the 7 percent limit.
The companys’ counter-
proposal would mean a 73-
cents-an-hour raise — or 8.3
percent — for the oil worker
averaging $8.82 an hour.
Oscar Mauzy, D-Dallas.
Mauzy failed, 25-5, in an at-
tempt to give senators the pow-
er to select their own com-
mittees, and his amendment to
limit filibusters to 24 hours was
defeated, 28-3.
Three other Mauzy measures
were defeated, but he noted he
had received onemore Vote for
each proposal than in 1977.
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years from now, democracy
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 10, 1979, newspaper, January 10, 1979; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth824898/m1/10/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.