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the STAR-PHOENIX Saskatoon, Monday, January 19, ls0 5 Iw. I i mm IB IBS pr Another raise for MPs? i'-J- 'rm 4 4 I V- a I 'A i 1 a I' i i i 4 i 'i At- s' I 4 i i 4 i 4 If it 1 (j, aM By STEWART MACLEOD OTTAWA (CP) An. independent commission soon will be established to study the salaries and working conditions of MPs, and there is widespread belief on Parliament Hill that wholesale changes will result. Everyone, of course, expects higher incomes, since there hasnt been an increase since 1963. At that time, salaries were raised to $13,000 from $8,000, and the tax-free annual allowance went up to $6,000 from $4,000.

But the changes are expected to go far beyond that. When a group of Liberal party caucus chairmen recently discussed the question with Prime Minister Trudeau, he agreed agreed that the study should be placed in the hands of an outside commission. And it was agreed that the study shodld be headed by someone with enough stature to impress the general population. When MPs increased their salaries in the past usually with little or no debate there has usually been widespread public criticism. And such criticism would likely be more pronounced now, since the government is preoccupied with fighting inflation.

So far the make-up of the proposed commission has not been revealed, although some Liberal MPs have been expecting an announcement for some time. When the commission does deduct legitimate expenses, including those incurred in an election. We would expect that it would be accepted that the regular place of business of a member of Parliament is his riding, so that all expenses incurred while in Ottawa and travelling to and from Ottawa would be deductible as long as they fall within the limits established for such expenses. The tax-free allowances, originally $2,000, were established in 1945, two years after the revenue department cracked down hard on claims for employment expenses. Prime Minister Mackenzie King, and other government spokesman, said the allowance was justified because elected officials had expenses not common to any other employee.

1 The tax-free allowances were extended to the non-elected Senate in 1963. Senators receive $12,000, plus a $3,000 allowance. But of all the side issues to be examined by the commission none is more interesting than the $2,000 annual automobile allowance paid to cabinet ministers. This hasnt been changed since 1931 when, an old magazine shows, a respectable car could be bought for $495. If the commission should decide that the car allowance should follow the car-price trend since 1931, most cabinet minister should be able to bank the entire $33,000 they now get apart from the car allowance.

begin gathering evidence, there will be no shortage. Few MPs are satisfied with present working conditions. Most of them share small offices with a secretary. More research facilities are needed, many say, and there should be greater financial allowances for legitimate constituency expenses, including travel within the riding. And if they are asked for their opinion on salaries, its almost certain the commission will learn that a majority would prefer salaries pegged to public service salaries perhaps that of an assistant deputy minister, who now earns in the vicinity of $26,000.

By doing this, MPs would get an increase when that particular group of public servants gets raises. It would be an automatic procedure, without debate, without fanfare, and probably without public reaction. And they would likely never again go seven years without an increase. But the present $6,000 tax-free allowance is a different matter. If the commission recommends that this be continued, or enlarged, it would be bucking the opinion of the royal commission on taxation.

Members of Parliament should be treated on the same basis as other employees and so should be required to bring their allowances into income, said the tax commission report. It went on to say that MPs should, however, be allowed to A NEW QUEBEC LIBERAL LEADER AND WIFE IN VICTORY POSE Bourassa begins working toward provincial election Millionaire Bourassa wins Quebec Liberal leadership to sharpen the public imagi built during the leadership campaign, participation In the radio hot-line programs, and a tour of the 108-riding province Book by police chief questions findings in JFK assassination NOTICE CITY OF SASKATOON Sewage Service Charge Rebate That as of January 1, 1970, any new applications for rebates received, if any rebate is granted, shall be granted only to the first of the month in which such application is received. A. F. CARROLL, P.

Eng. City Engineer did not reveal any nitrates from having fired a rifle, Curry wrote. Oswald had a nitrate pattern on his hand consistent with the allegation that he fired the revolver which killed Officer Tippit. Police officer J. D.

Tippit was shot to death on a Dallas residential street 48 minutes after President Kennedy was shot. Curry said that during several hours of questioning by Dallas homicide officers, Oswald consistently denied any knowledge of the presidents murder. ently varied from month to month after the assassination. Brennan was later to become the Warren Commissions key witness. At the time of the Warren Commission hearings, Howard Brennan was willing to positively identify Oswald as the man he saw in the window.

Among the exhibits Included in Currys book, which is called F. K. Assassination File, is a laboratory report on paraffin casts of Oswalds hands and his right cheek. A paraffin test take of the right side of Oswalds face QUEBEC (CP) The Quebec Liberal party elected a new leader Saturday with the double-barrelled hope of smashing separatism and getting back into political power in Quebec province this year. The new leader is Robert Bourassa, a 36-year-old lawyer and economist, who promptly announced plans to sell separatist-minded students his convention-winning program for a prosperous society.

Mr. Bourassa, a man without cabinet experience, won election on the first ballot at the Liberal leadership convention Saturday, trimming two former cabinet ministers, Claude Wagner, 44, and Pierre Laporte, 48. Montrealer Bourassa received 843 votes, or 53.2 per cent of the 1,580 ballots cast. Mr. Wagner, a former Quebec justice minister, got 455 votes, 28.7 per cent of the ballot.

Mr. Laporte, Opposition house leader, got 288 votes. The' Liberals jumped a 21-year generation gap In choosing a successor to former premier Jean Lesage, at 57 retiring after nearly 12 years as leader, in-luding his 1960-66 term as Quebecs Quiet Revolution premier. Reasons for the long leap included the search for renewal in their ravaged legislature ranks and the hopes of finding a fresh figure to channel forces against Rene Levesques new separatist Parti Quebecois. They may have found their man in Mr.

Bourassa, whose image was made in a four-morth campaign as a candidate who would lead Quebec toward less unemployment and more investment. But the crucial post-convention questions were: Will he be i all other politicians, he would not disclose how much he had spent and who the sources of his funds were. Mr. Bourassa said the campaign was quite costly" because a9 a man elected to the legislature only in 1966 he entered the battle as the least-known candidate. He said one newspaper estimate that his campaign cost $300,000 was much more realistic than the $1,000,000 figure launched, without proof, by Mr.

Laporte. He added: I have no worry whatever about being attacked on this issue. I can answer that I am not at all dependent on high finance. I even refused offers of funds when this possibility could arise. The new leader said he would meet Mr.

Lesage Tuesday to discuss the tiansfer of leadership, including the post of leader of the official Opposition. A date for the first post-convention caucus had not been set. Mr. Bourassa got to work Immediately Sunday morning on the telephone, calling several people he has in mind as candidates for the general election. Involved are young administrators.

Asked if the general election, which he expects Premier Jean-Jacques Bertrand to declare for either June or September, would settle the separatist question, he said: Thats quite possible." Mr. Bourassa announced that he would begin a speaking tour of junior colleges and universities, noting that this was not a traditional stamping ground for leaders of established political parties. The part-time lecturer of economics with diplomas from Oxford and Harvard thinks Que- ford and Harvard thinks Que- By MARTIN WALDRON (c) 197S New York Timet News Service DALLAS The retired Dallas police chief, Jesse E. Curry, has suggested in a book just published that the entire circumstances surrounding the assassination of i ent Kennedy may not have been told. Curry directed the Dallas police departments investigation of the murder.

Using private police files, which included copies of confidential reports and photographs, Curry reviewed the course of the police investigation into Kennedys death. The physical evidence and eyewitness accounts do not clearly indicate what took place on the sixth floor of the Texas school book depository at the time John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Curry wrote. "Speculative magazine and newspaper reports led the public to believe that numerous eye witnesses positively identified Lee Harvey Oswald as the sniper in the sixth floor window. The testimony of the people who watched the motorcade was much more con fusing than either the press or the Warren Commission seemed to indicate.

Curry said ths "key witness used by the Warren Commission, set up by President Johnson and headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren; to conclude that Oswald was a lone assassin, Curry wrote, was Howard L. Brennan, then a 45-year-old steam fitter who claimed to have seen the sniper shoot the president. Officers estimated that he was only about 120 feet from the sixth-floor window, Curry wrote. When interviewed at the scene, Brennan claimed to have heard the first shot and then to have looked up to see the sniper fire a second shot. Brennan claimed that only two shots were fired from the book depository "Friday night, Nov.

22, 1963, Howard Brennan watched a police lineup. Brennan was unable to mak a positive identification of Oswald in the lineup. He was willing to admit that Oswald resembled the man in the window, but that was all. Brennans later testimony to Federal Bureau of investigation agents appar MYERS EXCAVATING LTD. Liberal blames member Ojukwu 4.

VANCOUVER (CP) Ray Perrault, Liberal MP for Burma-by-Seymour, said Friday that Biafran leader General Odume-go Ojukwu was responsible for thousands of Biafran deaths through his refusal to allow daylight relief fights into the country. Speaking at a meeting sponsored by a regional college, Mr. Perraut said General Ojukwu, who has fled Biafra with his wife and family, refused to allow Red Cross daylight relief flights because he wanted to use Canairelief as a cover for flying in arms Yippies sought heart attack TACOMA, Wash. (AP) coffeehouse. Yippie Jerry Rubin, currently audience of In the jammed cused us of that, but now its about 300, -more not, he said.

)t, he said. SNOW REMOVAL Phone 244-8151 or After Hours 382-1841 or 343-1986 Mr. Perrault Canadas reore- sentative to the United Nations. bec8 Koung av.er and how much electoral damage than half appeared to be of high-school age. tive crowd of young people that 6aid He talked almost exclusively he was guilty of the charges Rubin admitted to the atten- main age voting age is 35 will go for his federalist, jobs-fixst program.

Also planned is a television being tried in Chicago for con. spiracy, said Friday night that he and his fellow conspirators were trying to give their judge a heart attack. "After all, Judge (Julius) Hoffman is 75 years old and its not impossible. If he died, wed of his experiences in the Chicago trial, where he is charged of conspiring with seven others to disrupt tne Democratic national convention. Besides talking of Judge have to start the trial all over Hoffman, Rubin said projected again, said Rubin.

Yippie plans include putting people's faith Is gone in such The self-acclaimed Yippie LSD into the water supply at things as politics, the police and non-leader flew from Chicago the 1972 Republican national the courts. after Fridays day in court to convention. It was chemically "The only thing left to do is speak to soldiers at a Tacoma impossible when they first ac- overthrow the government. filed against him by the government. He said he expects to be convicted and sentenced to from two to 12 years in prison by March 1.

But our trial has revealed a lot of things, Rubin said. The SAVE Canada was one of the forces for negotiating a Red Cross agreement for daylight flights into Biafra. Of the 126 United Nation members no one worked harder than Canada to get talks started, he said. In a meeting with Biafran representatives, he said, we broached the idea of air-dropping supplies and the Biafran ambassador said Ojukwu wouldn't accept that because the drops might damage the huts and children-might be hurt by food canmsters. He said the Biafrans offered to accept helicopters flying in but that wasnt feasible because of the limited carrying capacity.

Mr. Perreault said critics who have said Canada is to blame for thousands of deaths are irresponsible and inaccurate. He said General Ojukwu made a cold-blooded declaration that many lives would have to be sacrificed for a victory. Mr. Perrault said that when General Ojukwu declared Biafra independent he did so on behalf of hundreds of thousands of non-Ibos.

There was no vote, none of them was asked if they wanted to revolt. to Mackenzies GREAT SCOT SALE was inflicted on him by the political daggers of his two tough opponents? Mr. Wagner, the champion of law and order and self-styled candidate of the people, lost Hi9 wife didnt want him to go up to the podium to congratulate Mr. Bourassa, saying money buys conventions. The second-place finisher was finally pushed on to the podium by Liberal friends, Including the federal labor minister, Bryce Mackasey, who wrestled him away from angry organizers, including one who said: It wag the fight of a man against money.

Mr. Wagner, who said during the campaign that Mr. Bourassa is Incapable of leading the Liberals to election victory, eventually got to the podium to shake hands with the winner and wish him good luck. But before he got there, he told a television interviewer that his defeat surprised him, but I believe that people are even more surprised. On the eve of the two-day convention, 15 legislature supporters of Mr.

Laorte held a news conference to slash Mr. Bourassa as a candidate who represented the Interests of high finance. Mr. Laporte continued the knife job in his convention address, saying things like: Power does not belong to high finance." And: Lets break our chains. Otherwise the people will break them.

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