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The Morning Newt, Wilmington, October 19, 1978 3 Baxter ad 'distorted' Biden record, data service says made available only to senators and congressmen. Baxter's ad reports Biden has sponsored 58 bills during his six years in the Senate and only one has become law. The headline across the top of the ad reads: "Biden batting average The numbers, obtained from the House Legislation and Information Status System, are accurate. A staff member said, however, that anyone requesting such information gets a "careful explanation" that very few bills survive intact as they are introduced, and a more accurate measure of a congressman's achievements are the amendments he adds to bills in committee and on the floor. Baxter's ad, she said, ignored that explanation, instead presenting the numbers as a total picture of Biden's activities.

She called it "a cheap shot." Michael Scanlon, Baxter's campaign manager, said "that explanation's a bunch of rot. It's nothing but excuses." "We're just trying to show that Joe Biden has a very poor record of following through" on legislation, Scanlon said. The only substantive legislation bearing Biden's name to reach the nation's law books is the Biden-Eagleton Amendment, which has shut down efforts by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare to achieve busing for school desegregation. It was added on the Senate floor. Two other Biden efforts almost made it.

He added a significant amendment on sentencing procedure to the revision of the criminal code, and added a large portion of the "sunset" bill, which would require all federal programs to be periodically reviewed. Both bills died in last week's rush to adjourn. None of those three amendments, however, show up in a list of bills Biden has sponsored or in the totals in Baxter's ad. The ad says the statistics were "published by the United States Senate" and lists a Washington phone number that can be called to verify them. The number is for the House research service.

A reporter calling that number yesterday and asking for a list of bills by sponsor was told the "new policy" prevents them from being disclosed. The staff member who answered the phone said the statistics had been "totally misinterpreted" in "a full-page ad in a major metropolitan newspaper." Further inquiries determined the ad was Baxter's. The research service was established to provide computerized information on bills and legislative operations for House members. Until yesterday the information also was available to the public. The memo sent to all employees says: "Effective immediately, and until further notice, no searches for bills by sponsor or co-sponsor will be made except for requests from the House member or the senator in question." It was signed by Frank Reeder, deputy director of House Information Systems, parent agency of the computer service.

Reeder, how FIT i1'-! 1 Biden, Baxter and Gies have trouble disagreeing i By PATORDOVENSKY Wshington Bureau WASHINGTON A House re-search service has cut off public access to computerized lists of bills sponsored by individual congressmen because the information was "totally misinterpreted" by Delaware's James H. Baxter Jr. A staff member said Baxter, Delaware's Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, "distorted" the statistics in an ad published in the Wilmington News Journal last Sunday. In the ad, Baxter attempted to paint a do-nothing record for Sen.

Joseph R. Biden the Democrat he is trying to unseat. A memo sent yesterday to employees of the research service says such information now will be Roth plans to revive bill next year SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Sen. William V. Roth yester-day vowed to continue fighting for a 33 percent cut in the personal income tax as soon as Congress, returns after the first of the year.

Speaking at a fund-raising breakfast for Republican congressional candidate Jed Roth said he plans to reintroduce the so-called Roth-Kemp bill as soon as the new Congress begins work. The nation is beginning to wake up to the need for an income tax cut, he said. Roth blasted the recent tax cut authorized by Congress, saying it will mean a tax hike instead of a cut for a family of four earning more than $8,000. "Why is there a tax revolt?" he asked. "Because for the first time in American history, the working force is beginning to see itself in a downward mobility.

They are making more money, but now it will buy less." The Roth-Kemp proposal would reduce the federal income tax by one third over a three-year period. He said tax dollars would be restored to the workers. Although-fat would be trimmed from the budget, essential services would not be eliminated, said the Delaware senator. He said he expects much more support for his bill after the first of the year when people see how much more is being taken out of their paychecks for Social Security. "The Congress is now dominated by big spending and red tape," Roth said.

"As important as the presidency is, it is important also to change Congress. They are the ones who make the laws." The hardest-hit taxpayers are "the ones making between $15,000 and $20,000 or $30,000," Roth said. By HUGH CUTLER Staff Correspondent PHILADELPHIA Democratic U.S. Sen. Joseph R.

Biden Jr. yesterday surprised himself by agreeing with his American Party challenger, Donald G. Gies, on a campaign stand regarding energy crisis solutions. Biden and Gies, appearing along jvith Republican Senate candidate James H. Baxter Jr.

for a videotaped campaign forum at a Philadelphia television studio, both suggested that one answer to the need for more oil and natural gas is working with the Mexican government to develop vast untapped reserves there. Baxter urged less government involvement in energy, instead promoting incentives for what he said were the mainly small independent oil exploration firms to aid their continuing search for new resources. Baxter said the energy legislation just passed by Congress means, only "more regulation on the oil we don't have." The incumbent was openly incredulous that he shared any position with the arch-conservative Gies. Yet all three men in the Delaware U.S. Senate race espoused similar stances on other issues as well.

Considering court-ordered desegregation in New Castle County, for instance, Biden said the busing plan's start was "peaceful, but it's not working. "I do not believe it can work in a state like Delaware, where it has not been proven that there was a deliberate pattern of discrimina ever, said that's not precisely what he meant. He said his office is trying to come up with a "more responsible" and "open and systematic" method for releasing information. He said he is not sure he can legally prevent public access to the data. Reeder was asked what he would tell a campaign manager for a Republican Senate candidate who called asking for a list of bills sponsored by a Democratic senator.

"I don't really know," he said. "I think I'd tell him I'll think about it and call him back." The House information systems are under the jurisdiction of the House Administration Committee, chaired by Rep. Frank Thompson, tion," Biden said. Baxter chided the senator, "Joe, I wish you had understood that four years ago." The GOP challenger recalled a Biden vote against a May 1974 busing amendment that failed, 45-47. Biden previously has said he believed that amendment was unconstitutional.

Gies said opposing federally imposed busing has been an American Party tenet since 1968. "The quality of education will suffer," he said, "and it's going down thi drain." The television program, "Meetinghouse Campaign '78," is to be aired on KYW-TV (Channel 3) on Oct. 27 at 8:30 p.m. The candidates were questioned by members of the League of Women Voters, Common Cause of Delaware, and the Brandywine Hundred Council of Civic Organizations. Philadelphia Daily News political reporter Stephan Rosenfeld was moderator.

Biden told the questioners that, if re-elected, his top priority for the next legislative session would be reducing Congressional expenditures. His three-pronged inflation fighting effort embodies some of the same measures he tried in vain to pass in the session that concluded last weekend. The senator stressed the need for "sunset" legislation fixing a termination date for government spending and programs, a permanent tax cut tied to reduced federal spending, and civil service reform. Gies said abortion was a key See BIDEN Page 4, Col. 4 CARAT DIAMOND SAVE $251 A $550 VALUE! Fiery brilliance mounted in your choice of a perfectly styled Solitaire or Tiffany setting.

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Quillen (second from left) and Henry R. Horsey at a press conference in Dover yesterday. (Staff photo by Chuck McGowen) High court judge choices would be sworn in right away FOLEY'S SIXTY-FOURTH sume office was shared by the court and the House and Senate judiciary committees. "It should be resolved, ultimately, by an attorney general's opinion or by an administrative ruling of the court," he added. Chief Justice Daniel L.

Herrmann said through an aide yesterday that all five judges would probably hear the same cases. However, he said, a Supreme Court rules committee is now studying the use of three-judge panels by federal courts. Such panels are seen as a possible way to reduce the court's case backlog. Meanwhile yesterday, no strong objection to the appointments emerged from state senators. Senate President Pro Tern Richard S.

Cordrey, D-Millsboro, who I 't had pushed for a downstate appointee, said he was satisfied with the political and geographical balance, although, like others, he said he knew little about Horsey. Cordrey heads the Senate's Democratic majority. Another powerful Democrat, Sen. Jacob W. Zimmerman, D-Little Creek, said he intends to support the nominees.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Francis J. Kearns, D-Stratford, who described Quillen as "good at everything he did," said "the smart legislator" would withhold judgment on Horsey until he had seen his resume and until the executive committee held a hearing. But he said he was surprised that both judges had not been named from among those now or formerly on the bench. 478-7190 V4 Vi Carat Diamond, $895 Value, CROSS PENS PCH Reg. $7.50, Chrome-others proportionately reduced.

HOW DO YOU PRICE A MIRACLE From the Dover Bureau DOVER If William T. Quillen and Henry R. Horsey are confirmed as justices of the state's expanded Supreme Court, they are expected to assume office soon afterwards even though their positions haven't been funded in the state's budget, a du Pont administration official said yesterday. David S. Swayze, counsel to Gov.

Pierre S. du Pont IV, said the added expense would probably be drawn from the Supreme Court's present budget in anticipation of a new appropriation after Jan. 1. Supreme Court justices receive $42,000 a year. A supplementary appropriations bill introduced in the House Aug.

31 would provide $159,539 to pay salaries of two new justices, six additional employees and other costs for nine months. The amounts were based on calculations by the controller general's office. If the two justices join the bench in November, eight months will remain in this fiscal year. Any supplementary appropriations must be voted by both nouses. Only the Senate will return for the confirmations.

Du Pont announced his appointment of Quillen, the former chancellor from New Castle and a Democrat, and Horsey, a Republican Dover lawyer, at a press conference yesterday. He also summoned the Senate to return Oct. 30 to vote on their confirmation. The court was enlarged from three to five justices by a constitutional amendment that became law in August. Swayze said, "The current wisdom is, that since the constitutional mandate is that there shall be five justices, they will be paid out of current salary lines until there is a supplemental appropriation." Supplemental appropriations are usually enacted during the course of a fiscal year to pay expenses that had not been anticipated when the state's budget was drawn up.

The fiscal 1979 budget, now in. force, provides for only a three-man Supreme Court. In addition, state accounting practice does not allow new personnel to be hired by an agency if the new employees would drain its budget before the end of the year, Budget Director Ronald F. Mosher said yesterday. But Swayze said a constitutional amendment can supersede both the language in the state budget and the state guidelines.

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Redd said he was responding to a recent letter from Wilmington Mayor William McLaughlin. McLaughlin encouraged Redd and the Newark council to support the constitutional amendment, and said that 50 percent of tax revenues from jai alai betting could subsidize bus service under the Delaware Authority for Regional Transit (DART). McLaughlin had estimated that jai alai could provide about $500,. 000 to Wilmington annually that could be applied to the bus system. The bus system is subsidized this year with $1,006,000 from the state, $381,000 from the county, and $160,000 from Wilmington.

Redd said that although he is not fond of gambling, "It is the best idea I've seen for reducing the burden on the tax Newark council members did not agree. Council member Betty Hutchinson said she will notify McLaughlin that she does not approve of the gambling proposal. Instead of seeking bus funds from a "magic source," she sajd "we should have a tax on gasoline. You can count on that better, and the tax relates to transportation." The constitutional amendment allowing jai alai would have to be approved by two legislative assemblies to be implemented. It has been passed in the State House, and the Senate is expected to confront the issue Oct.

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