Page 16-Thursday, May 15, 1980-The Michigan Daily Gasoline tax decision appealed; Congress continues to debate 0 WASHINGTON (AP) - Ad- ministration officials said yesterday motorists will be spared the president's 10-cent-a-gallon gasoline fee while a judge's decision is being appealed. But the plan was dealt new blows in Congress. A day after a federal judge overtur- ned the fee scheduled to take effect today, the Senate Finance Committee voted 13-3 to repeal it for good and the House Ways and Means trade subcom- mittee was expected to follow suit. THE ACTION came despite an ap- peal by Treasury Secretary William Miller for Congress to withhold any ac- tion on the plan while it is still in the courts. Miller, testifying before the Ways and Means panel, blasted efforts to eliminate the fee as "extremely shor- tsighted" and called the president's plan "a clear test of our national will" to reduce U.S. reliance on oil imports. But Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman (D-Ore.), told Miller that because of the fee's unpopularity in Congress and its doubtful legal status, Carter should now consider ditching it. "MY JUDGMENT is that it is the bet- ter course of wisdom for the president to use other alternatives that are before him rather than to pursue this course," Ullman told the Treasury secretary. Miller said gas rationing and full, immediate oil-price decontrol are the only alternatives - and these would be harsher on consumers than the proposed fee. He added that the administration ex- pects to win its appeal of Tuesday's decision by U.S. District Judge Aubrey Robinson Jr. and to impose the fee. ' MILLER SAID he was hopeful the en- tire appeal process, including possible Supreme Court review, could take no more than "a matter of weeks." He was asked if that meant there would be absolutely no increase at the pumps today when the fee was to have takeneffect. "The 10-cent. charge will not be placed on at the pump," Miller said. "There should be no price impact until this is settled." THIS VIEW was echoed by Energy Department general counsel Lynn Coleman, who told reporters the ad- ministration decided not to press for an appeals court order that might allow imposition of the fee while the appeal was progressing. This means the fee does not go into ef- fect today, Coleman said. Instead, Coleman asked for - and received - from Judge Robinson an order that requires companies that would be affected by the fee to maintain appropriate records, giving. the ad- ministration the ability to impose the fee quickly if the appeals court reverses Robinson's decision of Tuesday which blocked the levy. Coleman said the administration planned to file its appeals briefs with two appellate courts - the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals. In legal papers asking for the records to be maintained, government lawyers used some of the arguments they will bring. CLOG SA LE! . by -. -- ISKOMA Values 4-STYLESto To Select From Sizes 5 to 10 - MTA S T CAMPUS SHOP 619 E. Liberty 662-0266 Making history Two female members of the 82nd Airborne Division get their parachutes tangled as they take part in the first mass female parachute drop in military history at Fort Bragga, N.C., yesterday. Both jumpers landed safely. to di cc h( at m hi bE JC m JE " Carter tells top auto executives of credit loosening possibility (Continued fromPage15)for 1979 cars equas or exceeds 120 per ugh, healthy, aggressive auto in- cent of their 1974 fuel economy levels. ustry," said Goldschmidt, who is oordinating administration efforts to Carter said he called tbe auto chiefs elp the industry. "We are not going to to Washington to gain a greater under- bandon it." standing of the problems and to form a HE SAID, however, the ad- "permanent working relationship" to inistration did not favor imposing work out possible solutions. igher tariffs or import restrictions The executives held a similar ecause of possible retaliation by the meeting earlier this month with a group apanese in other industries, of senators from states hit hard by the He said Carter's special trade decline in auto sales. It was the first epresentative, Reubin Askew, is time they had approached Washington eeting with Prime Minister Ohira in as a group, partly because of reser- apan, and may have results to report vations about possible anti-trust im- as early as tomorrow." plications. On C itl Hill Ra Willi I I I vn apI0 no l ,nep. Wllam Broadhead (D-Detroit) introduced a bill to provide a $500 tax credit for per- sons who buy new cars during the remainder of 1980. THE TAX credit would be directed at American:made sars by limiting it. to. companies whose average fuel econmy Earlier, Ford Motor Co. Chairman Phillip Caldwell suggested to reporters that foreign car manufactureres be required to use as much as 75 per cent American labor and parts before being allowed to sell vehicles iithe U.S.