Page Teri THE SUMMER DMiLY Wednesday, July 18, 1973 THE SUMMER I~A1LY Wednesday, July 18, 1973 President refuses to release tapes (Conu i frot Page 1 dential tapes. Separation of pow- ers would not bar Cox from ob- taining presidential files since the prosecutor is part of the execu- tive branch. During the committee hearings yesterday Herbert Kalmbach, formerly Nixon's personal law- yer, said he never told the Presi- dent about his mounting suspi- cions of scandal surrounding the Watergate affair. Kalmbach said he thought it would be presumptuous of him to go to the President with what he termed rumor and sixth-sense suspicion of wrongdoing. HE CLAIMED he stopped rais- ing money for the Watergate de- fendants late last summer but said nothing to the President. Under increasingly persistent questioning, Kalmbach said again and again that he first agreed on June 29, 1972, to raise funds for Watergate defendants because it was incomprehensible to him that White Iouse aides Dean or John Ehrlichman would ask him to do anything improper. Ile returned repeatedly to the_ concept of confidentiality when asked to explain why the many covert elements of the fund- raising and distribution scheme didn't immediately warn him that something was wrong. "DID IT NEVER flicker a light that there might be trouble for the President?" asked Sen. Howard Baker {R-Tenn.) . "It didn't flicker that there was trouble in that sense," he said. "It bothered me; the secrecy was distasteful to me. But it never reached the point in my mind that I felt I should go to the President. Nonetheless, Kalmbach said concern about the secrecy of the $220,000 operation and news stor- ies about Watergate caused him to stop collecting money by early September 1972. Meanwhile, former White House aide Egil Krogh - yesterday re- fused to tell a House subcommit- tee what he knows about the 1971 burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist. CHAIRMAN Lucien Nedzi (D- Mich.) said Krogh refused to an- swer all questions on grounds of the Constitution's Fifth Amend- ment protection against self- incrimination except for details on his employment before 1968. Krogh has publicly taken "full responsibility" for the Sept. 3, 1971, break-in of Ellsberg's psy- chiatrist's office as part of a probe into the Pentagon Papers leak. Krogh headed the so-called White House "plumbers" unit set up to find the source of news leaks. BUT NEDZI said his answer to all questions on the burglary and other aspects of alleged at- tempts to involve the CIA in Watergate got the same answer from Krogh: "Mr. Chairman, I refuse to an- swer the question on grounds it might tend to incriminate me." The flurry of activity yester- day moved the committee and the President closer to a con- stitutional confrontation over whether a congressional commit- tee has the power to demand Rule. change plan condemned w-mnned from Page :i two or three weeks. "The rules will add to the 'de- corut of the council meetings," Fairbanks said. Ile also pointed out that the Republicans have seen a need for chunge in coun- cil procedures for a long time. THE REPUBLICANS f i r s t discutssed possible alterations in the council rules during a caucus session. The measures were prin- cipally designed by Stephenson but none of oth;.r GOP council members raised objections, ac- cording to Bruce Renner (R- Fourth Ward). "These are just good common sense changes," Benner said. John McCormick (R-Fifth Ward) claimed the proposal be- came necessary because of "the unstatesman-like conduct of the HRP and Democratic activists on council." Several other Re- publicans alsto agreed that the Dens and Himans have helped fuel audience outbursts at coun- cil meetings. L A S T M O N T 11 Stephenson blasted Jerry DeGrieck (HRP- First W a r d) for provoking demonstrations aimed at council. DeGrieck denies all such charges and termed Stephenson's latest move "a total joke." The rules would be completely unenforceable, according to De- Grieck. He claimed a definition of obscene and profane language could not be established. "I con- sider the Republican actions on concil profaneo and obscene" Stephenson said that under his guidelines he would have the power to decide what consti- tutes obscene or profane lan- guage. If his judgemnent were challenged, the decision could be put to a council vote. "COUNCIL HAS no right to tell people when to stand and when to sit at public meetings," De Grieck added. When the changes are present- ed to council they will probably be approved thanks to the seven vote GOP majority. But even the Republicans apparently question whether the rules would prevent a recurrence of meetings like last week's. "I don't think the changes could prevent all outbursts," Ben- ner said. "If somebody decides to violate the rules we cannot do much about it.' ENFORCEMENT of the rules and punishment for breaking them seem to be somewhat sticky problems at this time. City Attorney Edwin Pear points out several of the rules tend to duplicate statues which exist in the city's disorderly per- sons ordinance. Furthermore Stephenson's proposal s t a t e s nothing about penalties. "The penalties for violation need clarification," Pear said. He added he will work with the committee to help iron out these difficulties. Ultimately the alterations, if adopted, may well spark more demonstrations and profanity than they prevent THE PROPOSAL has succeed- ed in increasing the rift between the Dem-IIRP council members and the Republicans, many ob- servers feel they will probably do the same to the respective constituencies. documents from the executive ment. In my view, as in the view branch. of previous presidents, its pres- ON JULY 6, the President ervation is vital." wrote Ervin that he could not Ervin and Nixon are scheduled testify before the committee or to meet privately on the contro- provide it with documents from versy after the President is dis- White House files because such charged from Bethesda Naval actions would violate the con- Hospital where he is confined stitutional doctrine of separation with pneumonia. of powers. Doctors said he should be wel He called the doctrine "funda- enough to leave the hospital on mental to our structure of govern- Friday. Dm1l 662-6264 4th H IT WEK 231 S. 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