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...Andrew Multer's article on S.1437 is a fair example of the misrepresentation and scare tactics used against the proposed Federal Criminal Code reform...
...bill, Mr. Multer writes, "leaves the door open for an official secrets act and unprecedented restrictions on the freedoms of speech and press." Sounds terrible, doesn't it? The only thing is that there is not a grain of truth in the statement. The bill as it passed the Senate contains no new provisions whatever relating to an "official secrets act." The only changes it makes in existing law in this area are liberalizing changes, for instance giving the press a new defense against contempt charges for violating judicial gag orders...
...House of Representatives made it apparent fairly early that it found the automatic Federal payment formula in the Administration bill unacceptable. Administration forces finally worked out the compromise Multer Bill, which was essentially the Senate bill without the automatic Federal payment. It was less than home rule advocates wanted, but it seemed likely to pass and differences over the Federal payment could be worked out in conference...
...Multer Bill did not pass. Instead, the House voted to amend the Multer bill by adoption of the Sisk substitute, and once more a Senate-passed Administration home rule bill was removed from consideration on the House floor...
...next morning, the Democratic household was again in order. Abraham Multer, who on the previous day had been indignant about high peanut prices, decided that he no longer felt so strongly on the subject. A change of heart was admitted by Brooklyn Democrat Victor Anfuso who, although a member of the Agriculture Committee, had said at one point in the debate: "Frankly. I couldn't tell the difference between buckwheat and cottonseed, or between cornstarch and non-fat milk powder." What Anfuso could tell the difference between was $1.25 and something less...