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76th Year No. 126 Good Morning! It's Thursday, February 9, 1 984 2 Sections 1 2 Pages 25 Cents House considers tax to expand prisons By James V. Grimaldi Stat capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY Despite predictions that a tax increase would not be seriously considered during this session, the House will debate a temporary sales tax to pump up the state's beleaguered prison system. The House Budget Committee on Wednesday voted SS to send to the floor a half- yea- r, -- cent sales tax in-crease to pay for the conversion of the Farmington State Mental Hospi-tal into a medium- securit- y prison that wouldhold 1,100 inmates. Before passing the tax increase proposal, which was sponsored by Republican Rep. Bud Barnes of St. Louis County, the Budget Committee voted 8-- 7 to kill Gov. Christopher Bond's proposed $ 175 million bond is-sue that would have financed an ad-dition to Ellis Library as well as the first phase of the Farmington con-version. Bond had proposed a tax increase during the special session but it died in December. At the beginning of the regular session last month, Bond and legis-lative leaders said that a tax in-crease was next to impossible in 1984, because it is an election year. After Wednesday's meeting, Budget Committee Chairman Marvin Prof-fer agreed the coming election cam-paign will have an impact on the House's decision. Some committee members said they favored the bill that came out of the House Budget Committee so all House members would have an op-portunity to consider the measure. " I think it is time for the commit-tee to give the House the entire House a chance to decide on the severe problem we face ( in correc-tions)," Barnes said. " As far as I'm concerned, it's a free- for- all- ." Bond had made the corrections is-sue a priority during the session. His proposal would have paid for the first phase of the renovation of Farmington, located about BO miles south of St Louis. The first phase would have created about 500 addi-tional beds by summer 1985. Offi-cials say the corrections system is packed with 2,000 prisoners beyond capacity. Under Bond's $ 175 million bond is-sue that died Wednesday, the Uni versity probably would have re-ceived about $ 26 million in capital improvement projects that stemmed from Coordinating Board for Higher Education recommendations. In-cluded in that figure was $ 4.5 million for expansion of Ellis Library. A bond issue also failed during the special session. Legislators said they would not support the bond issue un-less there was a tax increase to pay the interest on the bonds, which in effect serve as loans. Proffer said there still is a chance that the bond issue might be revived. " I have no idea where the bond issue is going to go, whether it will come up again or whether it is gone and dead," he said. Proffer tried to rally support for the bond issue by boosting the cost from $ 175 million to as much as $ 476 million. By boosting the ante. Prof-fer said Monday that he hoped to in-duce legislators to support the bonds by including projects in their own constituencies. That proposal failed. The rejection of the $ 175 million bond issue this session angered Rep. Robert Ellis Young, R- Cartn- age. " I don't think the members of the Legislature should act like a bunch of fraidycats,' with the bond issue," Young said. Young also lambasted his fellow committee members for passing the tax increase. " We have gone as far with the sales tax as we should go," he said. " There's already a big heap there and we'd just be heaping on some more." Proffer agreed that some Missour- ian- s may not want the sales tax to in-crease to about 6 cents, or more, on the dollar. The sales tax would collect $ 58 million from July 1 until Dec. 31. 1984, and would pay for the entire Farmington renovation project Un-der Bond's bond proposal, only the $ 20 million first phase of the Farm-ington project wouid be completed. Proponents of the sales tax sounded a note of urgency to solve the state's prison problems. " I think we have a responsibility to do some-thing before the third branch of gov-ernment intrudes on us and does something," Barnes said. X- i-- - -- EawV i - --- v"- ifggf -- - ,-- "-'- '; ! r. ?- Ma-faf3, : s: , . ,"'; y& Ma -- '. ., , . v "- f-- OY '" , I'jSjawjBwaBM fjj ' JskBMavao iiJrWiniMM msr -- fiTi? y?' if -- TLVjatHgMijMHaWaW-aaaawMaMaaaaaaw '' Vw9bbbbbBwSA taBBBaBBBBaBaBBBBBBaBBBBBBaaBBBBBBBK , -- f: t3igjBBHailBiBBaBBBaBaaaaaBB aBaaaaaaaaaaaaaaBaaaaaaaaaaaaaBBaaaaaaaaB ir-- iBBBmlBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBSBBBBBBBBBB ttBWaaaaaanBaaaal UEEHKUBttBr'& nBtttnBiBBBMBBBffi' BBBaaBal BBBBBBBBBBBBBBMBBBBBBaBBW -- Td& loaBBaBBaaaaaaaB BBBBBBaBBaBBaaWBaaBBBBW J- -- TSSHBBBBBBBBBBBaBl " SsBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBaBBBBtir BBBi SsPSSSBw nS9RBBBBBBBBaBBBBWmW. BBBW "'-- ". -- 3ca- feH SSHRaBBBBBnaaBBBBBBBBt BBBBBBB " sHll& fK& r HaBMBBHBaaaW -- '' W& x 9V6BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBsiBaBBaBa BBBHBBBHBBBBBBnBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBi 3- -'' --" " c3H BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBKBBV '' fizr ' tBBBBBBSBBBBBhBBBBB. ISLLaBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBI ; BWBaaaBaaMBBaaaai V fc-- . BBBBBKaBBBBBBBBBBl - bbbbbbbbbbbbbbI 9bBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB3K. 3? BBBBBbBBBBBBBBBBBi Bih Uvmrmotm Last rehearsal Members of the Kansas City Ballet perform a stretch combi-nation, left, at the Stephens College dance studio during a fi-nal class before the Wednesday evening performance. Mean-while, a dancer, above, tests turns and positions. The com-pany performed at Jesse Auditorium. U. S. shells rebel areas BEIRUT, Lebanon ( UFI) The ILS. battleship New Jersey fired scores of IB- in- ch shells Wednesday at rebel artflkry positions east of Beirut acting on President Reagan's orders to protect the city as multina-tional peacekeepers withdraw. Syria charged the bombardment kuled " dozens of. civilian women, children and old men." Britain began the pullout from the four- natio- n peace- keepin- g force by evacuating its US- ma- n unit hours af-ter Reagan said the 1,400- memb- er Mideast reaction Z7. Pao 3A ILS. Marine contingent would with-draw to 6m Fleet stops in the Medi-terranean. Scattered shooting and firelights madethe streets of the battered Leb-anese espial dangerous, but Mos-- . lem militiamen controlling west Bei- r- ut formed an uneasy truce with the Lebanese army to end the worst fighting. The luUm street fighting came af-ter at least 350 people were killed during the last week in theworst vio-lence since fee 1975 civil war. Bat it did not snip gunners in the Upper Mem mnontahw east of Bei-rut from opening op on Christian areas with artillery and rocket fire at midday. The New Jersey, the only active btWrp m me world, responded off the Lebanese coast by unleashing a savage fivehour barrage, three salvos at a time, from its IB- in- ch gens, winch had not been fired since - Dec- 1- 4. ft was the first time U. S. forces struck other man in retaliation for attacks on Americans. Reagan coo- ple- d permission for the ' barrages with Ins withdrawal order Tuesday, hoping to end the " sanctuary from which to bombard Beirut at wflL" ' It was not known if the mountain . gamers were me Draze who live there or Syrian troops occupying the region. Troubles seemed to stalk murder victim By IWssourian start writwa " She told me she loved him," said a neigh-bor who had come to know Gloria Dianne Jameson, The man she loved, James Howard Wil-liams, was arraigned on second- degre- e mur-der charges Wednesday in connection with the beating death of Jameson, 32. Neighbors were stunned by the circumstanc-es of her death Tuesday afternoon, although they conceded her life was filled with personal troubles. " She was the kind of person that something terrible might have happened to," said Pam Kaegel, who lived across the street from Jameson in the same condominium complex at 2801 W. Broadway. Williams denied bringing an end to that trou-bled life. " Man, I didn't do it, I just didnt do it,"-- Wil-liams said to a friend moments before ms ar-raignment. Williams, 29, whose own turbulent past in-cludes a checkered stint as an employee with the Boone Comity Sheriff's Department, was remembered by neighbors asa friendly man. Jameson and Williams " bad been going to-gether for years" said Williams' mother, Edna Williams of 1013 Jefferson St Neighbors at the Off Broadway Condomini-ums where Jameson lived said they saw Wil-liams throughout the smmner but that he had been away for the past two or three months be-cause Jameson's parents objected to the relationship! Other neighbors said that when they did see Williams be was friendly. They didnt believe that he had anything to do with it Jameson's death, and they were upset that the police came with their guns drawn. One resident, however, questioned the neigh-bors' response. " I think that reaction ( mat of the neighbors) is strange considering the cir-cumstances," said Phil SiirL Williams is not fondly thought of by Boone County Sheriff Charlie Foster. " I did ran into problems with him," said Foster of Williams, who was a limited- commissio- n deputy about four years ago. " He was in the office more than once to talk about it." Foster could not remember the exact dates of Williams' employment, but he did recall Williams asbeing talkative. " I try to give people a chance to quit before they get fired," Foster said. Williams took advantage of that chance and quit his job as a jailer. About 18 months after quitting his job, Wil-liams was convicted of third- degre- e assault and later spent 53 days in the county jail for a probation violation on that conviction. Court records indicate that Williams chose to serve time in jail rattier than to continue on proba-tion for the assault. While neighbors didn't come to know Wil-liams as well as Sheriffs Department person-nel have, the few who did know Jameson say she was reclusive and lonely. Neighbors said Jameson was unemployed and had difficulty finding a job. " It seemed like her whole life didnt work," said KaegeL Jameson and Kaegel met after their children bad become friends, " but Kaegel said she talked to her no more than a half dozen times. The conversations the two did have were " just enough to get by," Kaegel said. " She always seemed nervous." Jameson's son, Richard, 13, lived with her until late November. Shhi said Richard was caught by police late last summer for stealing checks from mailboxes around the neighbor-hood and cashing them with a library card. The child was later released to his mother's custody. Shhi said Williams came to the pool at the condominium complex soon after the incident and told residents he'd make restitution to ev-eryone for themoney. " He never did," Shirl said. Jameson's father. Dr. Donald B. Holley of Camdenton, Mo., had bought and furnished the $ 45,000 residence for his daughter last May, said Carl Burpo, the broker who sold the con-dominium. Dr. Jay Dix, Boone County medical examin-er, said Wednesday afternoon that Jameson's death was the result of injuries caused by seve-ral blows to the head. He also said that there was no- indicati-on that any weapon had been used. Associate Circuit Judge Joan Pinnell set Wi-lliams' bail at $ 100,000. The preliminary bear-ing will beset Friday. Ttus story was compiled by Missourian staff writers Scott Wflnams, Erik Godcbaox and Margaret DeRosby Proposals aim to streamline workings of Legislature ByWatTM) Strata! St& AS CflfiftaBw aMaTOaMI JEFFE8SON CTTY When Missouri tega- lato- cs ended their two- mont- h special session in December, some lawmakers voiced frustra-tion. Too much tmie had been spent, they said, without action on the session's two major is-sues: a bondissaeandataxincrease. " There are still open wounds from. the spe-cial session," said Rep. Ken Legan, R- Half- wa-y. " People arent enthusiastic Eke they usuattyare." Bwas as a result of las own frustrations and those of bis colleagues, Legan said, lhat he sponsored a measure that would limit special sessiaosfrom60daystol5days. His measure also would cut 45 days from me 5- mo- nth regular session held in odd- number- ed years. Sessknsm even- mannere- d years, which enrrenfly run about four months, woald beiairhimgedbyLegan'swrantfation. Legan's proposed constitutional amendment is one of a plethora of measures that would ease the burden on state lawmakers. In addi-tion to tmitmg special sessions, proposals have been mtroduced to extend the length of legislative terms, to shorten regular legis- lsbv- e sessions and to decrease me size of the ItSnemberHoose. Although there has been a special session for eachof the past three years, Legan said, " This hut one was the most difficult and the long-est" That feeing of frustration and wasted time stayed with legislators during the short, 13- da- y break before the current regular session. The length of sessions'is not the only frustra-tion some tegislatois express about their jobs. One that many lawmakers say is much more nportant is the trend they see toward a full- rim- e Legislature whose members are over-worked, out of touch with their constituents and frequently on the campaign trail. Sen. Emory Melton, R- Cassvf-lle, has a pro-posal he says will help solve the problem by limiting even- yea- r activity to two months of appropriations negotiations. That, said Melton, was the intent behind the 1972 constitutional amendment that allowed the Legislature to meet every year. Prior to that amendment, regular sessions were held during odd- numberedyea- rs. Rep. Ed Schwaneke, R- Kan- sas City, also be-lieves that wasted time plagues the Legis-lature. But his solution is different: cut the size of the House from 163 to 100 members. Shrinking the size of Missouri's lower cham-ber now the third largest in the union would save $ 2i million in salaries and sup-plies, Schwaneke said. Illinois recently cut the size of its lower Longer terms for legislators are another cure proposed to hasten the return to a citizen legislature. Schwaneke's measure would limit represen-tatives to three four- yea- r terms. A dmiiar measure, sponsored by Rep. Norwood Crea- so- n, D- Cowg- fll, would extend representatives' terms from two years to four, and senators' from four years to six. Although these ideas have been proposed for years, Schwaneke and others beueve the the Senate and House are willing to closely scruti-nize practices that slow the lawmaking proc-ess and, perhaps, approve legislation to cut the red tape. Schwaneke, sponsor of the proposal that would both reduce the size of the House and limit its members to three four- ye- ar terms, re-called that when be introduced a similar mea-sure last year, fellow legislators said he was ' crazy- -
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Item.Transcript | 76th Year No. 126 Good Morning! It's Thursday, February 9, 1 984 2 Sections 1 2 Pages 25 Cents House considers tax to expand prisons By James V. Grimaldi Stat capital bureau JEFFERSON CITY Despite predictions that a tax increase would not be seriously considered during this session, the House will debate a temporary sales tax to pump up the state's beleaguered prison system. The House Budget Committee on Wednesday voted SS to send to the floor a half- yea- r, -- cent sales tax in-crease to pay for the conversion of the Farmington State Mental Hospi-tal into a medium- securit- y prison that wouldhold 1,100 inmates. Before passing the tax increase proposal, which was sponsored by Republican Rep. Bud Barnes of St. Louis County, the Budget Committee voted 8-- 7 to kill Gov. Christopher Bond's proposed $ 175 million bond is-sue that would have financed an ad-dition to Ellis Library as well as the first phase of the Farmington con-version. Bond had proposed a tax increase during the special session but it died in December. At the beginning of the regular session last month, Bond and legis-lative leaders said that a tax in-crease was next to impossible in 1984, because it is an election year. After Wednesday's meeting, Budget Committee Chairman Marvin Prof-fer agreed the coming election cam-paign will have an impact on the House's decision. Some committee members said they favored the bill that came out of the House Budget Committee so all House members would have an op-portunity to consider the measure. " I think it is time for the commit-tee to give the House the entire House a chance to decide on the severe problem we face ( in correc-tions)," Barnes said. " As far as I'm concerned, it's a free- for- all- ." Bond had made the corrections is-sue a priority during the session. His proposal would have paid for the first phase of the renovation of Farmington, located about BO miles south of St Louis. The first phase would have created about 500 addi-tional beds by summer 1985. Offi-cials say the corrections system is packed with 2,000 prisoners beyond capacity. Under Bond's $ 175 million bond is-sue that died Wednesday, the Uni versity probably would have re-ceived about $ 26 million in capital improvement projects that stemmed from Coordinating Board for Higher Education recommendations. In-cluded in that figure was $ 4.5 million for expansion of Ellis Library. A bond issue also failed during the special session. Legislators said they would not support the bond issue un-less there was a tax increase to pay the interest on the bonds, which in effect serve as loans. Proffer said there still is a chance that the bond issue might be revived. " I have no idea where the bond issue is going to go, whether it will come up again or whether it is gone and dead," he said. Proffer tried to rally support for the bond issue by boosting the cost from $ 175 million to as much as $ 476 million. By boosting the ante. Prof-fer said Monday that he hoped to in-duce legislators to support the bonds by including projects in their own constituencies. That proposal failed. The rejection of the $ 175 million bond issue this session angered Rep. Robert Ellis Young, R- Cartn- age. " I don't think the members of the Legislature should act like a bunch of fraidycats,' with the bond issue," Young said. Young also lambasted his fellow committee members for passing the tax increase. " We have gone as far with the sales tax as we should go," he said. " There's already a big heap there and we'd just be heaping on some more." Proffer agreed that some Missour- ian- s may not want the sales tax to in-crease to about 6 cents, or more, on the dollar. The sales tax would collect $ 58 million from July 1 until Dec. 31. 1984, and would pay for the entire Farmington renovation project Un-der Bond's bond proposal, only the $ 20 million first phase of the Farm-ington project wouid be completed. Proponents of the sales tax sounded a note of urgency to solve the state's prison problems. " I think we have a responsibility to do some-thing before the third branch of gov-ernment intrudes on us and does something," Barnes said. X- i-- - -- EawV i - --- v"- ifggf -- - ,-- "-'- '; ! r. ?- Ma-faf3, : s: , . ,"'; y& Ma -- '. ., , . v "- f-- OY '" , I'jSjawjBwaBM fjj ' JskBMavao iiJrWiniMM msr -- fiTi? y?' if -- TLVjatHgMijMHaWaW-aaaawMaMaaaaaaw '' Vw9bbbbbBwSA taBBBaBBBBaBaBBBBBBaBBBBBBaaBBBBBBBK , -- f: t3igjBBHailBiBBaBBBaBaaaaaBB aBaaaaaaaaaaaaaaBaaaaaaaaaaaaaBBaaaaaaaaB ir-- iBBBmlBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBSBBBBBBBBBB ttBWaaaaaanBaaaal UEEHKUBttBr'& nBtttnBiBBBMBBBffi' BBBaaBal BBBBBBBBBBBBBBMBBBBBBaBBW -- Td& loaBBaBBaaaaaaaB BBBBBBaBBaBBaaWBaaBBBBW J- -- TSSHBBBBBBBBBBBaBl " SsBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBaBBBBtir BBBi SsPSSSBw nS9RBBBBBBBBaBBBBWmW. BBBW "'-- ". -- 3ca- feH SSHRaBBBBBnaaBBBBBBBBt BBBBBBB " sHll& fK& r HaBMBBHBaaaW -- '' W& x 9V6BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBsiBaBBaBa BBBHBBBHBBBBBBnBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBi 3- -'' --" " c3H BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBKBBV '' fizr ' tBBBBBBSBBBBBhBBBBB. ISLLaBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBI ; BWBaaaBaaMBBaaaai V fc-- . BBBBBKaBBBBBBBBBBl - bbbbbbbbbbbbbbI 9bBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBB3K. 3? BBBBBbBBBBBBBBBBBi Bih Uvmrmotm Last rehearsal Members of the Kansas City Ballet perform a stretch combi-nation, left, at the Stephens College dance studio during a fi-nal class before the Wednesday evening performance. Mean-while, a dancer, above, tests turns and positions. The com-pany performed at Jesse Auditorium. U. S. shells rebel areas BEIRUT, Lebanon ( UFI) The ILS. battleship New Jersey fired scores of IB- in- ch shells Wednesday at rebel artflkry positions east of Beirut acting on President Reagan's orders to protect the city as multina-tional peacekeepers withdraw. Syria charged the bombardment kuled " dozens of. civilian women, children and old men." Britain began the pullout from the four- natio- n peace- keepin- g force by evacuating its US- ma- n unit hours af-ter Reagan said the 1,400- memb- er Mideast reaction Z7. Pao 3A ILS. Marine contingent would with-draw to 6m Fleet stops in the Medi-terranean. Scattered shooting and firelights madethe streets of the battered Leb-anese espial dangerous, but Mos-- . lem militiamen controlling west Bei- r- ut formed an uneasy truce with the Lebanese army to end the worst fighting. The luUm street fighting came af-ter at least 350 people were killed during the last week in theworst vio-lence since fee 1975 civil war. Bat it did not snip gunners in the Upper Mem mnontahw east of Bei-rut from opening op on Christian areas with artillery and rocket fire at midday. The New Jersey, the only active btWrp m me world, responded off the Lebanese coast by unleashing a savage fivehour barrage, three salvos at a time, from its IB- in- ch gens, winch had not been fired since - Dec- 1- 4. ft was the first time U. S. forces struck other man in retaliation for attacks on Americans. Reagan coo- ple- d permission for the ' barrages with Ins withdrawal order Tuesday, hoping to end the " sanctuary from which to bombard Beirut at wflL" ' It was not known if the mountain . gamers were me Draze who live there or Syrian troops occupying the region. Troubles seemed to stalk murder victim By IWssourian start writwa " She told me she loved him," said a neigh-bor who had come to know Gloria Dianne Jameson, The man she loved, James Howard Wil-liams, was arraigned on second- degre- e mur-der charges Wednesday in connection with the beating death of Jameson, 32. Neighbors were stunned by the circumstanc-es of her death Tuesday afternoon, although they conceded her life was filled with personal troubles. " She was the kind of person that something terrible might have happened to," said Pam Kaegel, who lived across the street from Jameson in the same condominium complex at 2801 W. Broadway. Williams denied bringing an end to that trou-bled life. " Man, I didn't do it, I just didnt do it,"-- Wil-liams said to a friend moments before ms ar-raignment. Williams, 29, whose own turbulent past in-cludes a checkered stint as an employee with the Boone Comity Sheriff's Department, was remembered by neighbors asa friendly man. Jameson and Williams " bad been going to-gether for years" said Williams' mother, Edna Williams of 1013 Jefferson St Neighbors at the Off Broadway Condomini-ums where Jameson lived said they saw Wil-liams throughout the smmner but that he had been away for the past two or three months be-cause Jameson's parents objected to the relationship! Other neighbors said that when they did see Williams be was friendly. They didnt believe that he had anything to do with it Jameson's death, and they were upset that the police came with their guns drawn. One resident, however, questioned the neigh-bors' response. " I think that reaction ( mat of the neighbors) is strange considering the cir-cumstances," said Phil SiirL Williams is not fondly thought of by Boone County Sheriff Charlie Foster. " I did ran into problems with him," said Foster of Williams, who was a limited- commissio- n deputy about four years ago. " He was in the office more than once to talk about it." Foster could not remember the exact dates of Williams' employment, but he did recall Williams asbeing talkative. " I try to give people a chance to quit before they get fired," Foster said. Williams took advantage of that chance and quit his job as a jailer. About 18 months after quitting his job, Wil-liams was convicted of third- degre- e assault and later spent 53 days in the county jail for a probation violation on that conviction. Court records indicate that Williams chose to serve time in jail rattier than to continue on proba-tion for the assault. While neighbors didn't come to know Wil-liams as well as Sheriffs Department person-nel have, the few who did know Jameson say she was reclusive and lonely. Neighbors said Jameson was unemployed and had difficulty finding a job. " It seemed like her whole life didnt work," said KaegeL Jameson and Kaegel met after their children bad become friends, " but Kaegel said she talked to her no more than a half dozen times. The conversations the two did have were " just enough to get by," Kaegel said. " She always seemed nervous." Jameson's son, Richard, 13, lived with her until late November. Shhi said Richard was caught by police late last summer for stealing checks from mailboxes around the neighbor-hood and cashing them with a library card. The child was later released to his mother's custody. Shhi said Williams came to the pool at the condominium complex soon after the incident and told residents he'd make restitution to ev-eryone for themoney. " He never did," Shirl said. Jameson's father. Dr. Donald B. Holley of Camdenton, Mo., had bought and furnished the $ 45,000 residence for his daughter last May, said Carl Burpo, the broker who sold the con-dominium. Dr. Jay Dix, Boone County medical examin-er, said Wednesday afternoon that Jameson's death was the result of injuries caused by seve-ral blows to the head. He also said that there was no- indicati-on that any weapon had been used. Associate Circuit Judge Joan Pinnell set Wi-lliams' bail at $ 100,000. The preliminary bear-ing will beset Friday. Ttus story was compiled by Missourian staff writers Scott Wflnams, Erik Godcbaox and Margaret DeRosby Proposals aim to streamline workings of Legislature ByWatTM) Strata! St& AS CflfiftaBw aMaTOaMI JEFFE8SON CTTY When Missouri tega- lato- cs ended their two- mont- h special session in December, some lawmakers voiced frustra-tion. Too much tmie had been spent, they said, without action on the session's two major is-sues: a bondissaeandataxincrease. " There are still open wounds from. the spe-cial session," said Rep. Ken Legan, R- Half- wa-y. " People arent enthusiastic Eke they usuattyare." Bwas as a result of las own frustrations and those of bis colleagues, Legan said, lhat he sponsored a measure that would limit special sessiaosfrom60daystol5days. His measure also would cut 45 days from me 5- mo- nth regular session held in odd- number- ed years. Sessknsm even- mannere- d years, which enrrenfly run about four months, woald beiairhimgedbyLegan'swrantfation. Legan's proposed constitutional amendment is one of a plethora of measures that would ease the burden on state lawmakers. In addi-tion to tmitmg special sessions, proposals have been mtroduced to extend the length of legislative terms, to shorten regular legis- lsbv- e sessions and to decrease me size of the ItSnemberHoose. Although there has been a special session for eachof the past three years, Legan said, " This hut one was the most difficult and the long-est" That feeing of frustration and wasted time stayed with legislators during the short, 13- da- y break before the current regular session. The length of sessions'is not the only frustra-tion some tegislatois express about their jobs. One that many lawmakers say is much more nportant is the trend they see toward a full- rim- e Legislature whose members are over-worked, out of touch with their constituents and frequently on the campaign trail. Sen. Emory Melton, R- Cassvf-lle, has a pro-posal he says will help solve the problem by limiting even- yea- r activity to two months of appropriations negotiations. That, said Melton, was the intent behind the 1972 constitutional amendment that allowed the Legislature to meet every year. Prior to that amendment, regular sessions were held during odd- numberedyea- rs. Rep. Ed Schwaneke, R- Kan- sas City, also be-lieves that wasted time plagues the Legis-lature. But his solution is different: cut the size of the House from 163 to 100 members. Shrinking the size of Missouri's lower cham-ber now the third largest in the union would save $ 2i million in salaries and sup-plies, Schwaneke said. Illinois recently cut the size of its lower Longer terms for legislators are another cure proposed to hasten the return to a citizen legislature. Schwaneke's measure would limit represen-tatives to three four- yea- r terms. A dmiiar measure, sponsored by Rep. Norwood Crea- so- n, D- Cowg- fll, would extend representatives' terms from two years to four, and senators' from four years to six. Although these ideas have been proposed for years, Schwaneke and others beueve the the Senate and House are willing to closely scruti-nize practices that slow the lawmaking proc-ess and, perhaps, approve legislation to cut the red tape. Schwaneke, sponsor of the proposal that would both reduce the size of the House and limit its members to three four- ye- ar terms, re-called that when be introduced a similar mea-sure last year, fellow legislators said he was ' crazy- - |