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— Griffin Daily News Thursday, November 16 1972
Page 8
Senate
Rowan will try to block
state funding of caucus
ATLANTA (UPI) - State
Sen. Robert A. Rowan of En
igma said the resignation of 21
Democratic senators from the
Senate Democratic Caucus was
a blow for legislative independ
ence.
“I think the most important
things we did were to keep the
issue of legislative indpendence
open,” Rowan said Wednesday.
“And we were able to get peo
ple to take a positive step in
the face of formidable opposi
tion. The pressure was great.”
Rowan, who had been chair-
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man of the caucus, had hoped
to vote it out of existence. Fail
ing that, the walkout was de
signed to blunt its effective
ness.
The departure left only 26
senators and Lt. Gov. Lester
Maddox, presiding officer of the
Senate.
However, the remainder
claimed they could continue the
caucus and nominated Sen.
Hugh Gillis of Soperton to an
other term as president pro
tern.
Rowan said the next step
would be an attempt to block
state funding of the caucus on
the grounds it would be illegal
to spend tax money on it be
cause it was no longer a ma
jority caucus. The action could
come in the upcoming session
of the General Assembly and
Rowan said he felt most of the
eight Senate Republicans would
side with him in the matter.
Sen. Culver Kidd of Milledge
ville, one of the senators who
stayed with the caucus, said “we
got rid of all of the cockle
burs.”
The walkout avoided a bitter
confrontation between forces
favorable to Gov. Jimmy Car
ter and supporters of Maddox
aver proposals to eliminate the
caucus and to strip Maddox of
his appointive powers.
“We just heard the first
sounding gun of the next gov
ernor’s race,” said Eugene Hol
ley of Augusta, chosen again as
the Senate majority leader.
“Their strategy is first abolish
the caucus and embarrass the
lieutenant governor.”
Holley charged Rowan with
seeking headlines, because “if
he’s going to run for lieutenant
governor, he needs publicity.”
Holley predicted ‘‘harmony
rather than disunity will come
out of this meeting.”
Sen. Leroy Johnson of At
lanta said those who resigned
“should have come in here and
fought like the dickens to get
their point across.” He added
the caucus was needed as a
“vehicle to keep the Democra
tic party alive” in Georgia.
Maddox said “pressure was
never more intense” on sena
tors during the struggle than it
had been in recent days.
“Some got calls from state
ATLANTA—At a meeting of the state Democratic Caucus,
Senator Bobby Rowan, of Engima, Ga., and twenty other
Senators resigned enmasse from the Caucus rather than take
part in a confrontation between forces aligned to Gov. Carter
and Lt. Gov. Maddox. Here Lt. Gov Maddox is addressing the
remainder of the caucus. (UPI)
government, promising high
ways, jobs, appropriations,” he
said. “As governor, I never en
couraged any inference in the
Democratic caucus of the Sen
ate or House, and I never will.
It is wrong for the executive
branch to try to run roughshod
over the General Assembly.”
Rowan also mentioned pres
sure, hinting that Maddox had
promised committee chairman
blips in return for favorable
votes.
An aid to Carter, who backed
Rowan’s attempt to kill the cau
cus in a move to reorganize the
Senate, said the caucus “no
longer amounts to a hill of
beans.”
Resigning with Rowan were
Paul Broun of Athens, Horace
Ward of Atlanta, Robert
Smalley of Griffin, Beverly
Langford of Calhoun, Michael
Herndon of Thomasville,
Franklin Sutton of Norman
Park, Frank Eldridge of Way
cross, Mac Cleland of Lithonia,
Sam Doss of Rome, James
Parker of Cedartown, Jack
Henderson of Marietta, Al Hol
loway of Albany, Render Hill of
Greenville, Martin Young of
Rebecca, Hugh Carter of
Plains, Ed Barker of Warner
Robins, Julian Webb of Donal
sonville, Ed Garrard of Atlanta,
Bert Hamilton of Macon and
Pierre Howard of DeKalb Coun
ty-
U.S., Cuba may talk
about hijack curbs
By United Press International
The United States and Cuba
appeared ready today to reopen
previously unsuccessful negotia
tions aimed at halting airline
hijackings to the Communist
island.
The head of the Air Line
Pilots Assocation (ALPA) pre
dicted Wednesday in Washing
ton that pilots would hold a
worldwide work stoppage early
next year if security forces at
airports have not been streng
thened. Capt. J. J. O’Donnell
accused both the government
and the airlines of “dragging
their feet” on the hijack issue.
Havana Radio broadcast an
offer Wednesday to work out a
“broad agreement” with the
United States for the return of
hijackers seeking asylum in
Cuba.
The government of Premier
Fidel Castro, in its most
positive statement yet on the
issue, said it is “ready—
seriously and without delay—to
take steps” leading to a
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solution of the problem. The
broadcast said the Cuban
government “has Absolutely no
interest” in becoming a refuge
for American criminals.
Offer is Conditioned
The offer, however, was
conditioned on previously stated
demands that the United States
return Cubans who flee the
island in stolen planes and
ships and that alleged sabotage
and commando raids from U.S.
territory cease.
In Washington, State
Department spokesman
Charles W. Bray said the
government intends to explore
the “various straws in the
wind” indicating Cuba now is
ready to settle the hijacking
isue. He said he hoped such
negotiations would be more
fruitful than they were two
years ago when the U.S. would
not agree to link the return of
Cuban refugees to the return of
U.S hijackers.
O’Donnell demanded in a
letter to President Nixon that
negotiations be opened promp
tly with Cuba. “Open negotia
tions with Cuba with the intent
to reach an accord on the
extradition of fleeing felons
must be reached if we are ever
to see an end to this skyjacking
menace,” O’Donnell wrote Nix
on.
Also in Washington, Edward
E. Carlson, president of United
Air Lines and head of the
airlines’ joint security commit
tee, said the government must
not reduce airport security
guards as planned.
CARD OF THANKS
The Calhoun family wishes
to thank their many friends
for their gestures of kindness
and generosity at the time of
their misfortune.