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KVKMISU.APITAI. trh. 20. l)73 Capital Comment: Senators like a pack of dogs in busing fight By DAVID GOELLER Associated Press Writer Sometimes the Maryland Senate resembles a pack of wild dogs which, when it has nothing else to attack, turn inward and begins devouring itself. Such has been the case with the issue of pupil busing in Prince Georges County, which has become a particularly chewy morsel in what so far has been a year of famine in terms of substantive legislative issues in Annapolis.

A year ago auto insurance reform and handgun control were causing long sessions and lengthy debate in the so-called upper chamber. These issues were embodied in bills which, when enacted, became law and had far-reaching effects. The busing fight, however, is over a joint resolution, a purely advisory document which, some lawmakers have publicly stated, tends to be worth little more than the paper on it is printed. The first day of the 1973 session saw the introduction of the resolution by 'three Prince Georges senators calling upon Congress to enact legislation 1 prohibiting courts from ordering pupil busing to effect racial desegration. Prince Georges County was facing a Jan.

29 deadline to institute a massive busing plan which would shift some 33,000 of its 162,000 pupils into different schools. Given a referendum, citizens in Maryland's largest county probably would have rejected busing. Thus, from a down-home standpoint, it was good politics for Democrats Steny Hoyer, Peter Bozick and Edward Conroy- the three most political of the county's five senators-to submit the resolution. Black senators from Baltimore and a smattering of liber- als- including Sen. Meyer Emanuel, D-Prince Georges-saw matters differently.

To them, the resolution represented an attack on years of civil rights efforts in the courts and on the streets. The battle lines were drawn and the talk began. It still continues. In normal circumstances, the Senate spends about 10 hours a week on the floor this time of a session. The busing resolution alone has consumed about 15 hours during the past two weeks.

Neither side has been willing to compromise, chiefly because there appears little middle ground in the argument with people either for busing or against it. Hoyer, Conroy and Bozick, having appealed to the straw- clutching instincts of a very vocal segment of Prince Georges white motherhood, can not publicly back down. From a strategic standpoint, there is little reason they should. They are in the driver's seat. If and when the matter comes to a final vote, they have more than enough support to pass the resolution.

The opponents, perhaps even more emotionally committed to their position, have been fighting a skirmish-and-retreat action. They have, through mini- filibusters and procedural tactics, managed only to delay the final vote. The blacks and liberals, however, have been pushed to the last line of defense-the full- blown filibuster designed to wear down the Senate so that lawmakers will desert the Prince Georges trio and vote, at least, to send the resolution back to committee for a quiet execution. The showdown has been set tentatively for this Friday. But then again it has been scheduled for last Friday, but opponents made procedural goofs, and the resolution still confronts a Senate which finds its work betting backlogged.

Is there right and wrong in the battle'' Blacks, by the very nature of their tactics, are openly delaying the work of the Senate. But their opposition stems from deep-seated beliefs formed by discrimination and personal experience with pupil busing when it was used to insure segregated classrooms. Their position on the busing issue was formulated long before U.S. District Judge Frank A. Kaufman ordered pupil shifts in Prince Georges County last year If Hoyer Co.

had a position on busing, it was not heard in the Senate until pupil busing became a fact of life for their countv. State wins control of Ocean City dunes The Senate Finance Committee, acting after a personal plea from the president of the Senate, has reversed a week- old decision and voted in favor of a bill to give the state control over the dune line at Ocean City. The action came Monday on a 10-5 vote following the urging of William S. James, D-Harford, who sponsored the bill but who failed to testify in its behalf at a public hearing some 10 days earlier. The vote turned around a 7-5 tally recorded against the proposal Feb.

12. The matter was reconsidered following a motion by Sen. Meyer M. Emanuel, D- Prince Georges, who was not present for Monday's roll call. Monday's agenda called for a reconsideration the original vote, but the committee meeting turned into a one-sided public hearing with only James and Natural Resources Secretary James Coulter testifying on the bill.

Sen. Mary L. Nock, D-Lower' Shore, said that she had had a request from Ocean City officials to appear at the session. She said she told them "no" because she thought it would be a working and voting session at which testimony would not be taken. James and Coulter, however spent nearly an hour addressing the committee.

Neither man appeared at the scheduled public hearing, which was attended by Ocean City and Wro- cester County officials opposing the bill. The two men argued that the state must have control over maintaining and preserving the dune line because an Ocean City ordinance dealing with building set-backs was permitting developers to build into the dune at points south of 93rd street. The state, at Coulter's instigation, has filed suit against several builders it claims are threatening the dune with con- struction projects. "The state of Maryland," James told the committee," has a very narrow shoreline. It's one of the things Maryland should really treasure." James contended that the state should be empowered to supervise the dune line because Maryland agencies and the Army Corps of Engineers have jointly invested some $4.5 million in it as a barrier against storms.

'That beach," he said, "is as much mine living in Harford County as it is someone living in Wrocester County. It's inconceivable to me that the General Assembly and a great committee like this can't take a strong stand to protect the beach for the future." Coulter said the dune line should be protected against erosion and hacking by developers because "it represents the only storm protection we have in Ocean City. The storm protection there is woefully in- Barges could supply bridge-less peninsula State port may ease Del. plight adequate." Mrs. Nock, saying it was James and Coulter did not testify at the public hearing, argued that local officials have taken steps to preserve the dune and were active before the state become interested.

"This is just another instance where the state has taken over and the local people have no say" she said. "I don't think this is what government was intended to be: that we have a bureaucracy telling us what to do." She charged that the James bill was prompted by the pending litigation. "I can't understand, except for the sake of the court cases, why we would pass this kind of legislation," she said. DOVER, DEL. (AP)-The use of a port at Cambridge, to bring barges of badly needed supplies to the rail- cripped Delmarva Peninsula offers one of the most promising alternatives for helping to solve the area's transportation problems, the Tri-State Emergency Board has been told.

Maurice M. Carter, of Delaware's Transportation and Highways Department, told the group of some 30 private and public officials Monday that use of the Cambridge port "looks one of the most excellent possibilities for getting bulk handling into the peninsula at this time." Carter made the suggestion to the board after returning from a weekend inspection trip to Cambridge and to Cape Charles, where cars are being rerouted and ferried across the Chesapeake Bay. But he added that he felt He wants to ban bankers from post those problems were not insurmountable. That suggestion, plus others for increased use of the train- ferry system at Cape Charles and more use of trucks were among dozens which will be investigated by subcommittees set up at the organizational meeting of the Tri-State panel. The emergency board, comprised of members from private business, federal agencies and Maryland, Delaware and Virginia, was set up at the request of Delaware's Gov.

Sherman W. Tribbitt to deal with problems following the Feb. 2 accident when a freighter in the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal slammed into a Penn Central railroad bridge near of studies which paint a dismal picture of economic repercussions. State Labor Department officials predict that 4,600 persons could be laid off in the three months it takes for restoration of direct rail service unless inexpensive alternatives are found. A meeting of the transportation subcommittee has been scheduled next week as well as working sessions for subcommittees dealing with economic resources, fiscal and legal problems and data collection.

The full panel is not set to meet again until Feb. 28. Clifton Morris, Delaware's secretary of highways and transportation, was chosen chairman of the board. Wayne Whitham, Virginia's secretary of transportation; Frank Carney, Philadelphia's regional director of the Office of Emergency Preparedness; and a third person to be named by Maryland Gov. Marvin Mandel will serve as vice co-chairmen.

Baltimore harbor may get historical amusement park It started with a postcard from a consuuient. Ana uei. Charles A. Doctor hopes it will end with the Maryland Constitution being amended to prohibit a banker from being state mueuret. Doctor, D-Monteomery, introduced a proposed constitutional amendment Monday under which persons "in any way connected with a banking institution" would be ineligible for the treasurer's job.

The action came amid criticism of the dose association between the banking industry and State Treasurer John A. Luetkemeyer, who is also the chief administrative officer of the Equitable Trust Maryland's second-largest bank. Doctor told newsmen after Monday night's brief House session that a postcard from Mrs. Clarence Kirstein, a retired Montgomery County schoolteacher from Silver Spring, sparked the idea. "She wrote and told me she was distressed by the articles in the Washington Post "that showed the slate with at least $90 milbon in non-interest bearing accour.ls," Doctor related.

"Sic said she felt the legislature should pass conflict of interest lairs dealing with this sort of thing and replace John LueUtemeyer with a person from outside the banking com- inanily," The Post arteries said the noTMrteresl tearing accounts were held in six of the state's batika, iiiuuuing Cqui- table Trust. State officials, including Gov. Marvin Manuel, have denied any conflict of interest in Luetkemeyer's dual rolss 2nd h2 tf Hef ndpd Marv- land's practice of having a professional banker as treasurer. But Doctor, and Mrs. Kirstein, see it differently.

"I just think it's about time we had a fulltime state treasurer that's not a banker," the delegate said. "It seems to me he's just proven conflict of interest by placing so much state money in non-interest accounts. "When a person's vision is clouded so he can't see the facts, that's conflict of interest" Doctor, who stopped short of calling for Luetkemeyer resignation. said be felt the General Assembly is partly to blame for the situation in the treasurer's office. The 550-foot the lone direct land route for trains neninajla.

has been out of service since the Feb. 2 accent in which a crewmen on the freighter was killed. The Army Corps of Engineers began repairs on the span last weeKena, after UK feudal gcv- errjnent sas informed by Penn Central that it could not afford to fix the bridge. Rail transportation is not expected to be restored for about 90 days wi' full restoration of ship traffic in the canal to follow sometime later. In the meantime, the Tri- State panel will concentrate on defining Delmarva most crucial needs and see what methods may be devised to meet them, Delaware, which took the lead in seeking aid when the accident first happened, already has completed a number BALTIMORE (AP)--A Penn Central Railroad subsidiary is considering developing a histnr- icai tnenic omuacfficiii across the Baltimore harbor from Ft McHenry, Walter S.

Orlinsky, tity council president, said Monday. Six Flap, which already operates historical theme TMrks in Texas. Georgia and Missouri is studying the feasibility of developing a 240-acre park in time for the 1976 national bicentennial Meanwhile, the state planning agency is attempting to salvage an impact study of a rejected amusement park into a report useful for proposed large developments in the future. Orlinsky said representatives of Six Flags were here last week and are expected to decide by the end of the month whether to develop the site, now a sand and gravel quarry. Two groups are also working on feasibility studies, said Orlinsky, who declined to identity mem.

The citv's propuStu cu3 comples islands featuring reconstructed seaports, per mil restaurants, shops, ir.ulii-media theaters and areas for restaging historical events. The Marriott Corp. earlier indicated some interest in locating a Great America theme part cr. the nte, announced last week it hau uiuacii a in Manassas, Va. Marriott was rejected in its bid to place the proposed 800- acre Great America park near the planned city of Columbia.

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