4 Page 2 - The Michigan Daily - Sunday, September 16, 1984 Nov. election could tie parties in Senate I IN BRIEF Compiled from Associated Press and United Press international reports WASHINGTON (UPI) - Democrats lost control of the Senate in the 1980 landslide that swept Ronald Reagan in- to the White House. Since then they, have been plotting their comeback and are looking hopefully at the November elections. It is possible the Republicans, who now outnumber Democrats 55-45, will lose their majority, but the election also holds the potential for producing an historical rarity - a tie. THE LAST time Democrats and Republicans were of equal numbers in the °Senate was in 1881 and the result was troublesome for all involved. Before the deadlock was resolved, what should have been an easy 11-day Senate session stretched into 11 weeks. A recent publication of the historical office of the secretary of the Senate recalled the events that led to the Senate deadlock of 1881 and how it was finally resolved. The manuevering, negotiations and horse trading that took place are not something Congress would want to go through again. Although the Senate's party balance has been nearly even on several oc- casions, only at -the beginning of the 47th Congress in 1881 did both parties have equal numbers -37 senators each plus t'wo independents. A SPECIAL session of the Senate was convened on March 4 of that year just to deal with Cabinet and agency nominations for the new administration of President James Garfield. Democrats, who had lost their ab- solute majority in the 1880 election, thought they had the votes of both in- dependents, but one, of them, Sen. William Mahone of Virginia, sided with the Republicans when it came time for the crucial vote on committee assign- ments. That put the party split at 38-38, and meant that Republican Vice President Chester Arthur would cast the tie- breaking vote for his party. MAHONE'S VOTE did not come cheap, however. Although he was only a freshman senator, the Republicans agreed to make Mahone chairman of the Agriculture Committee and allowed him to select the secretary and sergeant at arms of the Senate, both commanding extensive patronage. President Garfield also yielded, reluctantly, control of federal patronage in Virginia. The Republicans quickly dictated the committee list, and a few days later prepared to elect new enate officers to replace the Democratic holdovers. But with several GOP senators absent because of illness or other business the angry Democrats were abled to stall the proceedings by leaving the Senate chamber each time the Republicans tried to muster the 39-vote quorum needed to conduct business. The Democrats -hoped they could strike a bargain to keep their Senate of- ficers in place while allowing Republicans control of committee chairmanships. The deadlock delayed Action on a long list of administrative appointments. After a while, an unexpected split developed in the Republican ranks bet- ween President Garfield and Sen. Roscoe t Conkling (R-NY) over their competing choices for an appointed position. Conkling blocked Garfield's choice and the president retaliated May 4 by withdrawing the nominations to other posts of five New Yorkers backed by Conkling. Conkling and the other New York senator, Thomas Platt, then resigned, thinking the state legislature would quickly re-elect them and send a message to the White House. As it tur- ned out the two men had misread the legislature's mood and both failed to be re-elected. Associated Press Paw bell This six-week-old Labrador-terrier wants in on the dormitory's Sunday night pizza delivery mania. Student business helps new local stores AL (Continued from Page 1) bagel samples to attract customers. "Come in with money," he said "and we'll sell you anything." The students' return has also brought success to the Nectarine Ballroom, the flashy New York-style dance club which replaced the Second Chance on Liberty Street. It was originally designed for older people and not directed toward the student market, but a change in the age limit has made it ac- cessible to most students. "AT FIRST we were (allowing only those) 21 and over," said promotional director Rita Shelide-Abel, but "now we're 19 and over. We would like an upgrade of people from the Second Chance." Cover charges range up to $4.50 at the Nectarine Ballroom, and "there isn't a strict dress code, but we allow no beat up tennis shoes, t-shirts, or jeans," she said. Shelide-Abel said people have been lined up at the door every night for the new club, which features a large dance floor, video screen, neon lights, three chrome bars, and valet parking. TWO BLOCKS away, on William Street, a new submarine sandwich store will soon be testing the waters of the student market in what used to be the Office Supply House. The newcomer, Tubby's Sub Shop,'will be a restaurant on two levels with a sky-lit arboretum in the center. Accoiding to Glen Gale of Campus Commercial Properties, the new store will feature college pennants and moose heads on the walls. After several Chinese restaurants tried to survive at the corner of State and William, the former Yong's Garden is now Steve's Ice Cream. Recently im- ported from Boston, Steve's is already drawing long lines for its innovative ice cream"mix-ins." Employees hand mix the ice crean with such items as candy, cookies, raisins, and nuts right on the counter as the customer watches. "The mix-ins are what makes us unique," said assistant manager Kathy McLen- nan, who said business has picked up since the students returned and the i store already has a group of regulars. "We're happy the students are back," echoed Patrice Stanley, manager of New Images, "although business was good all summer." New Images, which replaced Englanders on South University, is a women's clothing store which Stanley said caters to stud- ents by offering trendier fashions. Another new store enjoying the on- slaught of student consumers is Red Hot Lovers, a hot dog restaurant where "the momentum of business practically doubled when school started," accor- ding to owner Allan Cantor. He said the store on East UniverityStreet sells hot dogs from Chicago topped with an "en- dless list of condiments." Iraqi guard foils hijacking TEL AVIV, Israel- An Iraqi security guard apparently foiled the hijacking of an Iraqi jetliner over Jordan yesterday, injuring himself and the three would-be hijackers, an Israeli radio monitor said. Details were sketchy and it was not clear what type of plane was involved, how many people were aboard or the reason for the seizure attempt. Michael Gurdus, an official monitor for Israel radio and television, quoted the pilot of the jetliner as telling the Amman airport control tower at 9:20 p.m. local time that he was headed for Baghdad instead of Amman as previously advised. He said he expected to land in the Iraqi capital about an hour later. Gurdus told The Associated Press that the pilot radioed that an Iraqi security man struggled with three people who tried to take over the plane and that all four were wounded. He said that pilot also reported that the three wounded hijackers were un- conscious as the aircraft headed toward Baghdad. The pilot gave his flight number as 124, but did not say where he had taken off from nor why he had decided to land in Baghdad. Soviets seize Alaskan ship ANCHORAGE, Alaska-Five Alaskans are being held in the Soviet Union and their 120-foot supply vessel has been seized, the Coast Guard said, yesterday. "We don't know why they're in custody or where they were taken into custody or anything else," said Petty Officer Mike Hilley in Juneau. The last reported location of the Freida K was in the Chukchi Sea just south of Point Hope on Tuesday. The tip of the Seward Peninsula, which the Freida K would have had to pass on its way back to Nome, is only about 50 miles from Soviet territory. Hilley said the Homer-based vessel was returning from delivering fuel and water to Point Lay, an Eskimo village 160 miles northeast. It was due in Nome on Wednesday. The Coast Guard was told that it was- overdue last Friday after Terry Thomes, who leases the ship, flew over the area and found no sign of it, Hilley said. As the Coast Guard was preparing to launch a search mission, it was notified by the State Department that the Soviets had seized the vessel and were holding the crew. Aftershocks rock central Japan TOKYO-Two sharp aftershocks rocked central Japan yesterday following a severe earthquake that sent huge landslides tearing through a mountain village and blocking roads. Two people were known dead from Friday's earthquake. Five people earlier listed as missing turned up safe yesterday, but rescuers continued the search for 27 others still unaccounted for and feared dead. More than 500 policeman, firemen and Self Defense Force troops were participating in the recovery effort around Otaki, a village of 2,300 people at the foot of a mountain 120 miles northwest of Tokyo. Both deaths-a 65-year-old man found Friday and a 67-year-old woman found yesterday-were in Otaki, and all those reported missing were in or near the village, police said. A police officer also said there was an "unconfirmed" report of a third person having been killed when a new slide destroyed a house in Otaki during yesterday's aftershocks. Pope talks high tech in Canada TORONTO-Pope John Paul II, cheered by the greatest throng of his Canadian tour, championed the cause of the unemployed yesterday and called on Society's leaders to make technology "truly serve man, woman and child." "At tines.technology cannotdecide the fullmeasure of its own allegiance:' whether it is for humanity or against it," the pope declared at a Mass for a crowed estimated by organizers It a half-nillion;'sprad over the runways of a military airport in suburban Toronto. It was the fourth time in as many days that the leader of the world's more than 700 million Roman Catholics took a tough line on industry and gover- nment economic policies. Canadian business was showing its irritation. "It's a message that we regret having.heard because it means, really, that the economic realities have not penetrated the people who wrote the text for the pope," the Canadian Chamber of Commerce president, Sam Hughes, said of the pope's calls for a restructuring of Western economies. Much of what the pope has said reflects recent economic statements by the bishops of the relatively liberal Catholic Church in Canada, where 1.3 million people, 11 percent of the workforce, are unemployed. U.S. to ease Florida fruit ban:. LAKELAND, Fla.-The federal government will ease its quaraitine on Florida citrus shipments once producers' groves are certified free of deadly canker, agriculture agents said yesterday. Ernie Collins, a spokesman for Florida's Department of Agriculture, said inspectors began checking groves yesterday and would issue limited per- mits to growers whose trees and fruits are free of the disease. "It's simply a ticket that would allow shippers to move some fruit from Florida to non-citrus producing states,', Collins said. "It will also allow us to track each shipment." Fruit must be dipped in chlorine to disinfect it and could not be shipped to Arizona, California, Hawaii, Louisiana, Texas, Puerto Rico or American Samoa, he said. The federal ban on all citrus fruit and plants from Florida was announced Thursday to stop the spread of citrus canker, which poses a serious threat to the state's $1 billion citrus industry. Vol. XCV- No.10 The Michigan Daily (ISSS(N 0745-967X) is published through Sunday during the fall and winter terms and Tuesday through Saturday during the spring and summer terms by students at the University of Michigan.. Sub- scription rates: September through April-16.50 in Ann Arbor, $29.00 outside She city: May through August-$4.50 in Ann Arbor, $6.00 outside the city. Second-class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan. Post- master: Send address changes to The Michigan Daily, 420 Maynard Street, Ann arbor, Michigan 48109. The Michigan Daily is a member of the Associated Press and subscribed to United Press International, Pacific News Service, Los Angeles Times Syndicate and College Press Service, and United Students Press Service. . 4 q Expert predicts reduction in Soviet oil production (Continued from page 1) economy $17.8 billion in 1980 alone. At the same time, the Soviets have been selling 1.25 to 1.75 million barrels of oil a day to the West, for nearly 70 percent of their total foreign currency earnings. The windfall from a doubling in world oil prices in 1979-80 is credited for enabling them to continue to impor billions of dollars in food each year without having to borrow from Western banks. HEWETT CONTENDED that the Soviets have been able to continue this trend only by overinvesting in energy development, including a huge expan- sion of natural gas output as a sub- stitute for oil once used within the coun- try but now devoted to exports. In 1983, he said, energy-including transportation links such as pipelines and electric transmission lines-ac- counted for 40 percent of the nation's total industrial development, crowding out funds needed to modernize its out- dated manufacturing facilities, housing, roads and schools. "In effect, the Soviets are borrowing against future collective consumption," Hewett told reporters. "But they're not going to be able to do it very much longer." WHILE THE Soviets realize the potential for gigantic savings through conservation, their output-oriented system of rewards works against it, he said. And basic economic refor- ms-Moscow did-not raise the state- controlled domestic price of oil from 1967 until 1982 despite a 15-fold increase in world prices-will likely have to wait until- after the current transition in .Soviet leadership is completed. Still, Hewett said, the United States should not "underestimate the ability of the Soviets to muddle through." "Anyone who looks closely into the operation of Siberian oil and gas fields and the transportation system linking them with the European U.S.S.R. might be tempted to conclude that the energy- supply system is on the verge of collap- se. "That may be, " lie said, "but it has been in a similar state for a long time, and it has performed handsomely. On the other hand... the futurewill be far more difficult than the past." Man killed by Amtrak train near North Campus (Continued from Page 1) heard the train coming and moved on to the other track. When the train approached and soun- ded its horn, Postill's friend moved off the track and yelled at Postill to do the same, according to police reports. But Postill appeared confused and did not react, and he was hit by the train at 6:18 p.m. "My understanding was that he'd been drinking," Reedy said. "I think anybody that had had their full wits about them would have gotten out in plenty of time." He said police had not confirmed whether Postill, who was apparently in town for the football game, was intoxicated. Postill was apparently trying to show his friend how a train could bend a quarter," according to Steve Olson, an employee at Mitchell Field who talked with several officials on the scene. "They put the quarter on the track and stepped back on the wrong track," he said. Reedy said the investigation would continue but that no charges would be filed. The train remained at the scene for 100 minutes before continuing on to Chicago. See Get i Mass Meeting Sept. 17 or 18 7:00 p.m. at the Alumni Center what we have to of in the _4 olunteers needed... o experience necessary for.. Walking Tours Bus Tours Panel Presentations FestiFall Phonathons LilI Sibs Weekend Go Blue Run Michigan "Write-In" fer... b-* Costs preclude some women from rush (Continued from Page 1) Kappa Kappa Gamma, for example, sponsors a national scholarship program, according to the sorority's national president, Marian Williams. "But that is to help pay educational expenses through school. We have no assistance for pledges," Williams said. "Unfortunately, the way it's set up the only way you can join is if you can afford it," Seiler said. "I would like everyone who's in- terested to be able to join, but that's just not the way it is. And I do feel badly about it," she added. VC nc . 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