THE Michigan Daily Vol. LXXXIV, No. 51-S Ann Arbor, Michigan-Tuesday, July 30, 1974 Ten Cents Twelve Pages Connally indicted on 5 counts WASHINGTON M)-Former Treasury Secretary John Connally was indicted yesterday and accused of taking two $5,000 bribes from a dairy cooperative, and then committing perjury as part of a conspiracy to cover up the payments. He said he would contest the charges. Also indicted was a former Connally associate, Jake Jacobsen, who reportedly has agreed to plead guilty to the bribery :harge and to testify against Connally Jacobsen's lawyer would not comment on the indictment. A WATERGATE grand jury charged Connally with two counts of accepting a bribe, two counts of perjury and one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice. Jacobsen was charged with a single count of giving a bribe. Connally, the fourth member of Presi- dent Nixon's cabinet to be charged with a crime, issued a statement through his Houston law office. "I deny again that I am guilty of any wrongdoing and I am confident that I will be completely vin- dicated of these charges," he said. THE INDICTMENT says Jacobsen bribed Connally in return for his help in persuading President Nixon to raise federal milk price supports in March, 1971.- The increase was worth an esti- mated $30 million to dairy farmers. The indictment says Jacobsen, a law- yer working for the largest of the co-ops, Associated Milk Producers, Inc., paid Connally $5,000 around May 14, 1971, and another $5,000 around Sept. 24. - It said that more than two years after the payments, when Watergate investi- gators were checking out a second-hand allegation about the money, Connally and Jacobsen fabricated a false story to cover it up. BOTH MEN swore that Jacobsen had offered Connally $10,000 not as a bribe, but for use in making political contri- butions. Both swore that Connally refus- ed the money on grounds that it would be awkward for him, as a Democrat in a Republican administration, to give to either party. The indictment charged that the story was false and part of an illegal conspir- acy to obstruct justice. It also said the Connally gave Jacob- sen $10,000 in cash which Jacobsen plac- ed in a safe-deposit box and which he swore was the money Connally had re- fused. THE PERJURY counts charge that Connally lied to the Watergate grand jury last Nov. 14, when he swore that he talked to Jacobsen only once in the pre- ceding three or four weeks and that the conversation concerned a bank charter and not the $10,000. See JURY, Page 9 House unit votes 2nd impeachment article Accuses Nixon of abusing power WASHINGTON UM - Expanding its f o r m a 1 accusations against President Nixon, the House Judi- tiary Committee adopted a second impeachment a r t i c I e last night charging him with broad misuse of federal agents and agencies. The vote was 28 to 10, with seven Republicans joining all 21 Demo- crats in accusing Nixon of ordering or condoning wiretapping, private peeks at tax r e t u r n s and other activities "violating the constitu- tional rights of citizens." THE BIPARTISAN majority was one vote greater than on Saturday night, when the committee voted 27 to 11 a first article recommending Nixon's re- moval from office for obstructing jus- tice in the Watergate cover-up. - The additional vote in support of the second article came from Rep. Robert McClory of Illinois, second ranking Re- publican on the committee. The committee recessed immediately after the vote until 10:30 a.m. EDT today. STILL TO COME are proposed im- peachment articles b a s e d on Nixon's refusal to heed congressional subpoenas, his secret bombing of Cambodia and irregularities in his personal taxes. These will be taken up today when the committee holds its sixth--and perhaps final-day of nationally televised debate. Compared with Saturday's grim, tear- evoking drama, the roll call on the sec- ond article was almost anti-climactic. Throwghout a day of sometimes desul- tory, sometimes barbed debate, impeach- ment advocates had easily turned back the maneuvers of Nixon's outnumbered defenders. "There is no joy in removing a Presi- ident," said Rep. Jack Brooks (D-Tex.) See HOUSE, Page 10 CHAIRMAN PETER RODINO (D-N.J.) of the House Judiciary Committee holds a conference just prior to the start of yesterday's debate on the second article of impeachment. From left are Rodino, Frank Polk, minority counsel for the committee, Rep. Tom Railsback (R-Ill.) and John Doar, chief counsel. The committee passed the impeachment article by a vote of 28-10.