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Democratic caucus moves to ‘dethrone’ chairman

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Democratic Caucus is continuing to Whittle away the power of once lordly committee chaumen as the 75 newly elected Democrats flex their muscle.

The new members have shown they hold the balance of power in voting some of the major reforms the caucus is decreeing for the new House that will assemble in January. The freshmen comprise

Mini-convention opens in Kansas

KANSAS CITY (AP) - The Democratic party is opening its mini-convention here amid growing anticipation that peace and harmony of a sort may be returning to the party at last. The first event, and a likely place for any fighting to start, was the meeting of the Committee on Amendments and Rules, which decides today and Thursday the form in which a draft party Charter will go to the convention floor. While skirmishing over party reforms this week is a virtual certainty, party leaders are hoping it can be resolved in a compromise ending six years of intraparty warfare. A host of aspirants for the party’s 1976 presidential nomination are here, bucking a tradition that White House hopefuls do not appear at political conventions. And despite earlier predictions that memory of the tumult and discord of the past two conventions would keep Democratic office holders away, some 220 congressional Democrats were expected as well as many of the party’s governors, mayors and other public officials. The first formal session on the convention floor comes Friday night after the 2,000-plus delegates have spent a day dis-

cussing national and international issues in a series of panels. Party Chairman Robert Strauss has hinted that the outlines of a Democratic legislative program for next year may be revealed in a keynote speech Friday night by House Spaker Carl Albert. Strauss also is predicting that the mini-convention will adopt a charter, the first ever for a major American political party, which will repesent a compromise on the party reform issue that most Democrats can live with. The charter, drawn up by a special commission, will be debated and adopted In a daylong session Saturday with a possible spillover to Sunday. It is expected to write into a party constitution the basic reforms sought by the reform wing but without the quota system which caused the defection of many old guard Democrats ih 1972. Strauss said Tuesday, “I do?’t think we'll have any walkouts and I don’t think we’ll come out of there with any bitterness.” Intertwined with the debate over the Charter will be a heavy lacing of presidential politics with more than a dozen active or potentiabcandidates wooing support from the delegations for 1976.

Miners voting to ratify contract

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Members of the United Mine Workers continued voting Wednesday on a contract proposal that, if ratified, would bring an end to the three-week-old strike by the nation'’s soft coal miners. Although UMW officials said no voting figures would be released until Thursday, an unofficial Associated Press tabulation of scattered returns showed that with 20,922 votes counted—about 17.4 per cent of the 120,000 miners covered by the Contract—the disposition of the hew agreement is In doubt. A total of 10,615 voted for the contract, a slim 50.7 per cent favorable margin. UMW President Arnold Miller has predicted the contract will be approved by a 60 per cent majority but partial unofficial returns indicate the vote to be much closer. The contract, which Miller calls one of the finest in the history of organized labor, would provide a 64 per cent increase in wages and benefits. Voting results are to be telegraphed to the union’s Washington headquarters by each local when the extended voting period ends tonight. Until the votes are counted in Washington, the UMW has attempted to clamp down on local release of

figures. Miller said he asked locals not to release preliminary totals “so as not to prejudice those still voting.” Balloting originally was to be completed Tuesday but snowstorms in the Appalachian coalfields forced an extension of the deadline through tonight. If the contract is ratified, the union has said, mines could begin reopening Monday. “It could go either way here,” said District 29 President Richard Carter. His district, the UMW’s largest, has been a center of miner dissatisfaction with the proposed agreement. The strike has forced more than 25,000 layoffs in coal-re-lated industries such as steel mills and on coal-hauling railroads. Those industries are apparently awaiting the final vote results before making any further layoffs. U.S. Steel, which has laid off slightly more than 18,000 men, and Bethlehem Steel, which has furloughed 4,300, are two such industries taking a wait-and-see stance. “We’re trying to keep operations going and we’re doing a pretty good job,” said a U.S. Steel spokesman. “We don’t want to do anything now. If we anticipate a start-up, we want to be in a good situation to get back in full production ”

Clean water bill

WASHINGTON (AP) - Conress has voted to Set up the rst national standards for •inking water after the gov•nment said some water supies may contain cancer-caus-g chemicals. The bill now goes to the White ouse where it faces a possible !to. "This is the first significant U we’ve had to try to assure ean drinking water In this nam,” the chief author of the gislation, Rep. Paul G. Rors, D-Fla., said Tuesday. The House accepted on a ice vote the same bill which ssed the Senate. The final tion came about a month ter the Environmental otection Agency announced at possible cancer-causing bstances were detected in ne drinking water in New

Orleans and Cincinnati. The announcement led to a surge in bottled-water sales. The EPA announced then that it was conducting a nationwide investigation to determine how widespread the possible problem is. The investigation is just beginning at about 100 sites around the country, an EPA spokeanan said Tuesday. The bill would require a report on that investigation within six months. The legislation also would direct the EPA to promulgate interim drinking water standards and arrange with the National Academy of Sciences for a study leading to establishment of permanent standards.

more than a fourth of the Democratic membership. They have set Up their own organization to press for open procedures andassurances that junior members will not be crushed by the seniority system. The caucus voted 147 to 116 Tuesday night to require that the Selection of chairmen of appropriations subcommittees be subject to Caucus ratification. These subcommittees generally make the effective decisions on money bills. The caucus already has the right to review appointment of committee chairmen, but these chairmen in turn have appointed the heads of subcommittees.

This change saps the power of Rep. George H. Mahon, D-Tex., chairman of the Appropriations Committee and the second most Senior member of the new House. Earlier caucus actions had diminished the prerogatives of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee and its ailing chairman, Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, D-Ark. Mills entered Bethesda Naval Medical Center Tuesday after several confused days in which he renewed his public association with stripper Annabel Battistella. The nature of his condition was not disclosed. Rep. Richard Fulton, D-

Tenn., a member of both the Ways and Means and the Democratic Steering committees, said he would move to have Rep. A1 Ullman, D-Ore., replace Mills as chairman next year. Fulton said he acted reluctantly, but “in these times we cannot allow the Ways and Means Committee to go leaderless.” Fulton’s move apparently has strong support, but no immediate action was expected. The new Democrats have organized as “the class of 74,” rented an office, set up a small staff and held several caucuses of their own.

Mills ‘rests’ in hospital

WASHINGTON (AP)-Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, fatigued and stripped of some of his wide congressional powers, rested in a hospital today facing an effort by some Democrats to replace him as chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. The Arkansas Democrat, whose recent behavior has baffled his colleagues, was on the House floor Tuesday afternoon when he refused to handle a routine legislative matter and told a close friend: “I just can’t do it.” Shortly afterwards, he entered Bethesda Naval Medical Center without notifying his office.

Mills, 65, was examined by a hospital staff doctor Tuesday afternoon but no report on his condition was released, a Navy spokesman said. The nature of his illness was not disclosed. Sources close to the hospital said they understood it had not been diagnosed, but that Mills appeared to be very tired. Meanwhile, the woman who entered Mills’ public life last October said she wanted to visit her hospitalized friend. “If the doctor says it is okay, then I will go see him,” said Annabel Battistella, the stripper who jumped into the Tidal Basin from Mills’ auto when police stopped it.

Mills’ power as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee was whittled down Monday when the House Democratic Caucus decided to expand the panel, which initiates tax and Social Security legislation, and authorized it to establish subcommittees. Congressional Democrats talked Tuesday about replacing Mills with Rep. Al Ullman, DOre., the No. Democrat on the Ways and Means Committee. The Steering Committee is unlikely to act much before the end of the current congressional session later this month and could delay action until the 94th Congress meets in January.

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