European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 10 the stars and stripes Friday september 22, 1978 House action paves Way for government ethics Bill Washington a with elections coming up soon the House has cleared the Way for passage of a sweeping government ethics Bill by voting to reaffirm a new Rule sharply limiting the outside income Mem Bers of the House can earn. The 290-97 vote wednesday night Means that beginning Jan. 1, 1979, House Mem Bers will have to get along on their current $57,500 annual salaries plus 15 per cent. Opponents of the limits were trying to attach a motion to repeal it to a sweeping ethics Bill which House speaker Thomas o Neill had hoped to Complete wednesday. It was that attempt that was voted Dow wednesday night. Final consideration of the Overall Bill has been delayed until next wednesday. The Bill would require stringent Finan Cial disclosure for president Carter vice president Walter f. Mondale and All senior employees of the executive and Judi Cial branches plus members of Congress. For a year after senior Federal employees left government they would be prohibited from takings jobs with Law firms or private companies which do business with the agencies where they formerly worked. Supporters of the new House disclosure Rule approved in february 1977, say it will insure that House members Are full time legislators who earn Only a Small part of their income from making speeches and practising Law or working in other profession. House republicans joined by a few Liber al democrats said the outside income Limi tation is unfair to those members of con Gress who do not have significant investments or income from inheritances. Those kinds of unearned income Are not covered by the new restrictions. The result of the new limits they said one vote for Independence Patrick Henry great Patriot of the american revolution took his first step toward Freedom and Independence for his beloved land when he Rose before the Virginia Assembly to defy the legality of the hated stamp act. This act had been imposed on the colonies by King George to raise Money for the maintenance of his troops on this soil. On that historic Day in May of 1765, the fiery Young lawyer read his now famous Resolution that no one but Virgin ians could impose taxation on Virginia and that the Colony need not obey this Law of the King s. There were Many aristocrats present in the Assembly and at these shocking words they arose in anger with Crie of treason a very serious charge at any time. Many threats were uttered and much abuse was cast on me Henry wrote later but he persisted in Reading his Resolution to the owl. Then facing the Assembly he said if this be treason make the most of  this famous Resolution the first toward american Independence was passed that fateful Day by the margin of just one single vote. Your one vote counts use it nov. 3 amazing but True 1970. All Rigi  will be that Only Rich men and women and Liberal activists will run for Congress resulting in a distorted representation of the american electorate. Supporters noted that Congress voted it self a $12,000 annual pay raise last year in partial compensation for the new outside income limitations which also limit pay ment for each speech by a House member to $750. The chief sponsor of the move to repeal the new restrictions rep. James h. Quil Len r-tenn., said i fear that before Long the House membership will be composed of wealthy investors and those who depend entirely on their political jobs to provide for themselves and their  rep. David r. Obey d-wis., the chief sponsor of ethics legislation in the House said 90 per cent of the current House Mem Bers gave up the Law practices and Busi Ness interests they had before coming to Capitol Hill. Very few House members will be required to give up income they Are now receiving he said. Echo from the 50s heart beat a Warner Brothers film now in production purports to show a Darker Side of the 1950s an Era Gener ally depicted As a Carefree time of High school proms and Beach parties. John 2 cases confirmed heard left portrays author Jack Kerouac while Sissy Spacek and Neal Nolte play Carolyn and Neal Cassidy in the tale of the counterculture of two dec Ades ago. A unit oks fiscal 79 budget Washington a sidestepping arow Over Public works House and Senate conferees agreed wednesday on a Federal budget providing for a $38.8 billion deficit the smallest in five years and a bigger tax Cut than the House has voted. A deadlock Over a special Public works program including part of president car Ter s Urban program caused Congress to miss the sept. 15 deadline set by Law for adoption of a budget plan for the fiscal year beginning oct. 1. The House now is expected to act on the budget next tues Day and the Senate soon afterwards. The conference agreement Calls for revenues of $448.7 billion and spending of $487.5 billion leaving a deficit of $38.8 Bil lion. The Revenue figure would allow for an income tax Cut at least $2 billion greater than the $16.3 billion the House has voted in a Revenue Bill now before the Senate finance committee. That committee already has approved several provisions that would Grant additional tax Relief. There has been no Federal deficit under $40 billion since 1974. This fiscal year end ing sept. 30, will leave the government an estimated $51 billion in the red. Compared with the estimates for the coming year which president Carter made in january but have since been re Vised the House Senate Compromise Calls for about $12 billion less in spending and about a $21 billion smaller deficit. The con Ference estimates Are for higher revenues and a smaller tax Cut than Carter originally proposed. The conferees found a face saving Way out of the confrontation Over Public works. In its original version of the budget plan the House provided $2 billion in a Community and regional development category to be used for the special Public works pro Gram. The Senate insisted that there be no funds for the program but within the same category it favored More Money for the Small business administration s disaster assistance program. The conferees agreed to the $8.9 billion budget authorization figure the Senate had approved for the Overall category. Their report will say the House conferees As sume that is sufficient to provide for the Public works program and that the Senate conferees believe it is Only sufficient for existing programs including disaster re Lief. Brezhnev will attend rites Moscow a soviet president Leo nid i. Brezhnev will take part in ceremonies awarding the order of Lenin to Baku capital of soviet Zerba Idzhyan. Legion disease at vow convention Atlanta a the number of re ported cases of legionnaires disease is bound to go up As More is Learned about the disease a spokesman for the National Cen Ter for disease control says that does t mean there will be More cases occurring Don Berreth said wednesday. That simply Means there will be More cases being diagnosed  the Federal Agency reported wednesday that two cases of the disease had been con firmed among 35,000 people attending last month s National veterans of foreign wars convention in Dallas. Two other cases Are suspected. Berreth said state health departments have been asked to Check with vow organizations to determine if any other possible cases of the disease exist. Disease Center researchers were sent monday to Dallas where the convention was held aug. 18-25, he said. The Center has estimated there Are be tween 15,000 and 45,000 cases of legionnaires disease in the . Each year and researchers believe the disease has been around for a Good Many years Berret said. In the last several months the cd has trained Laboratory ans in All parts of the country on How to diagnose the disease so we re going to be seeing Many More re ported cases he said. In years gone by legionnaires was simply undiagnosed cases of  Berreth said both of the Dallas victims were being treated with the drug erythromycin and Are doing  the disease a form of pneumonia received its name two years ago when 29 peo ple associated with an american legion convention at Philadelphia died after contracting the illness. Researchers later discovered the Dis ease is caused by a bacterium that never was associated with human disease before 1976. They also Learned it tends to strike older people who smoke cigarettes. The Center still is trying to discover How the bacteria move through the Environ ment and infect people. Since the 1976 outbreak in Philadelphia about 500 cases of legionnaires disease have been reported