CIVIL RIGHTS Shocking Brutality in Selma, Alabama - March 8 Resolution Urging President. to Protect Rights of Citizens in Alabama to Assemble and Vote - March 25 The Voting Rights Bill - April 5 Rev. David Preus Protests Reeb Murder in Alabama - April 21 Cloture Motion - May 21 Adjustments Required for Full Equality - June 1 Challenge of Civil Rights - Aug. 10 Outburst of Anguish in Los Angeles - Aug. 17 A Quiet Experiment in Racial Brotherhood (Worthington) - Aug. 24 Beyond Los Angeles - Sept. 8 If~LV ~ : pt, ~ ([,,-,,-e.'a'" p~ f'O~ -'l'fr ,2.1 4240 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE March 8, 1965 area. and were there any Government of­ When law enforcement 'omcials in Church, carrying hysterical men, women, and these United States of America ftnd It children suffering head wounds and tear gas ftcials involved? burns. In addition to the fines collected for necessary to tum on a peaceable group In Atlanta, the Reverend Dr. Martin 1 overplantlng I want to know how much of citizens, who have no weapons and King, Jr., announced that he would extra this overplanting cost the Govern­ who indicate no signs of impending new march from Selma on Tuesday and ment under our support program. aggression or violence, ftnd it necessary called on clergymen from throughout the The Department letter which the Sen­ to use nightsticks, tear gas and whips Nation to join him. ator from Arkansas has put in the to attack and brutalize these citizens, HosprrAL TREATS 50 TO 80 RECORD today is the ftrst indication as then the very foundation and root of our (A hospital spokesman told the Washing­ to the extent of the fines they have American democracy is in jeopardy. ton Post in a telephone report that between assessed. Now more than ever it seems to me 50 and 60 marchers had been treated for in­ Let us roll back the cloak of secrecy on that the bare assurance of civil rights juries that included broken arms and legs some of these situations. I hope they for the southern Negro, coupled with and severe head gashes. the assurance of the right to vote in Fed­ (None of the victims was considered in will do so before they are through. and I serious condition, but "there is a great deal am determined that they shall. eral elections, is not enough. In the last of pain and suffering," the spokesman said. Mr. McCLELLAN. I thank the dis­ few weeks we have seen police brutality About a dozen marchers were reported. ad­ tinguished Senator. I especially thank enough to last us for centuries. mitted to the hospital. the distinguished Senator from Pennsyl­ It is time we recogniZe that it is the . (Most of the injuries appeared to be the vania [Mr. CLARK] for yielding to my col­ local elected omcial--7not the Federal result of heavy blows, the spokesman said. league from Arkansas and to me. marshal or Federal judge-who daily dis­ No gunshot wounds were reported. Mr. CLARK. I am always happy to penses justice or injustice to the Negro. (The Reverend Richard Boone, Alabema It is the State police, the local sheriff, the project coordinator for the Southern Chris­ yield to the Senator. tian Leadership Conference, estimated that local chief of police, the local school 90 to 100 marchers had been injured.) board members, the local voting regis­ Among the injured was Chairman John ESTABLISHMENT OF JOINT COM­ trar who set the pace in closing the glar­ Lewis Of the Student Non-Violent CoordI.­ MITTEE ON THE ORGANIZATION ing gap between the Federal "right" and nating ColIlD!-ittee, who suffered a possible OF THE CONGRESS local "practice" under which that right skull fracture. is denied. At his 01ll.ce in Montgomery, Wallace said The Senate resumed the consideration "those folks in Selma have made this a 7- of the concurrent resolution (S. Con. Res. We know that the forces of oppres­ sion in the South will continue their sor­ day-a-week job but we can't give in 1 inch. 2) to establish a Joint Committee on the We're going to enforce State laws." Organization of the Congress. did efforts of inttmidation, brutality, and murder. We know that the many HORSEMEN MOVE IN Mr. CLARK. For the beneftt of other The Negroes had just reached the end of Senators. and so that the Senate page courageous leaders in the Negro com­ munity-and, I might say, in the white the long bridge that leads out of Selma's boys may alert the two cloakrooms. I business district when they were confronted should like to say. after having discussed community as well-and in the human by 50 blue-helmeted State troopers. the matter with the majority leader and rights movement will continue their ef­ The troopers gave them 2 minutes to dis­ with the Senator from Oklahoma [Mr. forts to speak out, to protest, and to de­ perse. The Negroes did not disperse, and MONRONEY]. the Senator in charge of the clare the rights of mankind. about 2 dozen troopers, Swinging their concurrent resolution, there will be no The only question facing us in the clubs, rushed the head Of the col COngress is what we and the decent and Pushing and Clubbing, they drove Ne- votes today on the pending business. groes back about 50 yards and th gan I suggest the absence of a quorum. honorable people who know better will do. We can no longer remain silent in firing tear gas. The tear gas bombs boomed The PRESIDING OFFICER. The lUte gunshots and a dense cloud of yellow clerk will call the roll. the face of such outrageous denials of smoke enveloped the screaming Negroes. The legislative clerk proceeded to call basic human rights and decency, and I Then the troopers charged into the gas­ the roll. think the situation should command the dazed Negroes again, and from behind the Mr. CLARK. Mr. President, I ask immediate attention of the Senate of the column Sher11f Jim Clark's horse-mounted unanimous consent that the order-for United States. civman possemen charged in, swinging clubs. the quorum call be rescinded. Sadly enough, this situation has The hysterical Negroes broke and ran ba.ck reached the point where Negro citizens to the church. Those who fled in other di­ The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. HAR­ rectl.ons--between buildings-were quickly RIS in the chair. Without objection, it in the South who wish to assemble peaceably for the purpose of adjusting headed off by the hard-riding possemen. is so ordered. As the Negroes streamed through the town grievances must bring alOng doctors and toward the church where they started their nurses and medical supplies and am­ march, the possemen darted in at them, SHOCKING BRUTALITY IN SELMA, bulances. It has reached the point where clubbing them down. Several witnesses said . ALA: the bare exercise of rights as a human they saw the horsemen use bullwhips and being and as a citizen of the United lengths Of rope to flog the fleeing Negroes. Mr. ¥ONDAJ,.E. Mr. President, in States brings the threat of physical in­ Several hundred whIte bystanders cheered this mo~ newpapers I read with jury and even death. Mr. President, at and hooted as the Negroes were driven back consternation and dismay the news of this point I ask unanimous consent to to the church. But the white croWd made another shocking incident of brutality have reprinted 1n the CONGRESSIONAL no attempt to break through pollce tines. in Selma, Ala. A group of some 500 RECORD the news account of this incident It had been expected earlier that Dr. King Negroes planned a march from Selma to would lead today's march, but the civil from the Washington Post. rights leader said tonight that he had re­ Montgomery in protest against the un­ There being no objection, the article conscionable deprival of their voting mained in Atlanta to take care of his church was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, responsibilties and to "mobilize national sup­ rights. Governor Wallace of Alabama as follows: port for a larger thrust forward." He said had forbidden the march, and dis­ his aids argued him out of leading today's patched State troopers ,and volunteer TEAR GAS, CLUBS HALT 600 IN SELMA MARCH: STATE TROOPERS BEAT AND INJUlIE MANY march at th~ last minute. omcers of the Dallas County sheriff's NEGROES Dr. King also announced that he will go omce. (By Leon Daniel) into Federal court immediately to seek to The news accounts stated that the SELMA, ALA., March 7.-State troopers and restrain Governor Wallace from blocking Alabama police authorities had stopped mounted deputies bombarded 600 praying Tuesday's march. the protest march and the Negros had Negroes with tear gas today and then waded In his ~tatement tonight, Dr. King said: stood unmoving and silent. Without Into them with clubs, whips, and ropes, in­ "In the vicious maltreatment of defense­ warning and without provocation, the juring scores. less citizens of Selma, where old women and troopers and sheriff's omcers rushed for­ The troopers and possemen, under Gov. young children were gassed and clubbed ward and attacked the Negroes. The George C. Wallace's orders to stop the Negroes at random, we have witnessed an eruption of "Walk for Freedom" from Selma to Mont­ the disease of racism which seeks to troy Negroes were trampled, beaten, and gomery, chased the screaming, bleeding au of America. The people of Se 111 terrorized by these outrageous tactics. marchers nearly a mile back to their church, struggle for the soul of the Nation, t is We are told that white spectators clubbing them as they ran. fltting that all Americans help to bear the watching this shocking display whooped Ambulances screamed in relays betwesn burden. I call, therefore. on clergy of all and cheered with JOY. Good Samaritan Hospital and Brown's Chapel faiths, representative of every part of the March 8, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 4239 these and all other investigations we have a statement, the Senator did request in­ Someone knew that that was going duty to protect sources of Information and formation which they have not yet given on. Someone is responsible. The De­ the Innocence of those who are falsely 00- to us. The letter concerning the wide partment should tell us how it hap­ d. To make available these reports ·e they might be made public would not publication in Arkansas does not refer to pened. If controls are so lax that 1 In keeping with thIs responslbillty. all of the facts made known in this let­ did not know anything about it until Therefore, I must respectfully decline to ter, but does refer to the fact that the some of us on the outside called it to make the requested information available to full publication in the press concerning the attention of the Department some­ you. a large amount of overplannlng and thing is wrong. I appreciate your concern In this matter about a thorough investigation being in With all due respect to the Senators and can assure you that appropriate action progress has been publicized. from Arkansas. I say to the Department Is being taken by thIs Department to resolve all irregularities dIsclosed by the investiga­ Mr. WILLIAMS of Delaware. The that tl it is doing nothing wrong it tions. As I stated In my January 25, 1965, Senator is correct, but they now give should not be ashamed to discuss it. letter to you we would be glad to add to the some important statistics. When the Department gets a letter from scope of our review and particular Items Mr. McCLELLAN. With respect to a Member of the Senate that letter is to which you believe should be explored. what the Senator asked; namely, to what be answered-at least if it is my letter Sincerely yours, extent have laws been violated, No.1; I intend to get an answer. LEsTER P. CONDON, m!tybe they are not prepared to tell to Inspector General. Mr. McCLELLAN. I appreciate the what extent, yet, because they have not comments of the distinguished Senator. Mr. WILLIAMS of Delaware. Mr. completed the investigation. He has referred to some other matters President, Mr. Condon takes the poSi­ Then, what large planners have been in the letter which did not pertain to tion that their report was forwarded to violating these laws. They have not Arkansas, and of course I made no in­ the Department of Justice and therefore given us the names of them yet. On quiry about them. I merely wished to he cannot make any of the information some I am sure they have determined set the record straight by saying this available. I talked to them on the tele­ them and on others there is stlll a ques­ has been one of the most thorough in­ phone and suggested that they come tion as to whether they actually did vio­ vestigations in Arkansas that has ever down and we discuss the matter. I felt late or did not. They stlll have that in­ been conducted anywhere. It may not that with all the widespread violations formation to give us, then the question yet have disclosed all the facts. There that it was inconceivable that it could on Government officials being in collusion may be some reason why some of them have happened without some official's and stupid, I am sure they are stlll in­ should not be disclosed, but I have a sort knowledge. Mine was a very proper vestigating that matter. I do not believe of off-the-record feeling that probably question. the Senator would necessarily seek to the Department did its best in Arkansas I understood. that there were reports have all that information released to the because of some special reasons which I indicating that some employees did public before the cases are processed could mention. know. CertainlY Congress has right to further. At any rate, I trust that it wlll, as an answer. Again they refused the in­ Mr. Wll..LIAMS of Delaware. I wish expeditiously as possible, wind up the formation and stated that they would to emphasize that I did not ask the De­ investigation in Arkansas, because we are not discuss the matter. It was top secret, partment to release this information to approaching a new crop year. Although apparently. the public. If they had come down and there are definitely some who have not Now we find that their justification is said that the investigation was stlll con­ lived up to their obligatiOns in obeying 'lis is all in the newspapers anyway. tinuing and explained the background the rules with respect to planting only kind of department are we run­ I would have cooperated with them. I the acreage allotted to them, there are, ning Certainly if it has been publicized have cooperated with them in the past. at the same time, a good many farmers as they say In the newspapers they could But I do not like the blunt statement who should not be made to sutfer because have answered my letter. they gave in this case: "I must respect­ of the transgressions of a few others. I I do not, for one moment, question the fully decline to make the requested in­ We are as eager to have this matter ex­ intentions of the Senator from Arkansas. formation available to you." pedited and cleared up as is any one else, I say again-not only was there no re­ Even after I called them they would so that the program can begin to func­ flection intended but there is also no two not come down and tell whether it goes tion properly again, and so that those men in the Senate for whom I have beyond the Arkansas area. who are innocent may not be penalized higher regard than the two Senators In that same statement I referred to because of the actions of a few who have from Arkansas [Mr. MCCLELLAN and Mr. a report of the Comptroller General on violated the law or the regulations. FuLBRIGHT] • I wish to make that clear. I know that another phase of their operations about Mr. WILLIAMS of Delaware. Mr. they, too, would wish to make sure that which they had done nothing. President, on that point, I say to the all the information which is pertinent be The Department was allowing large­ Senator from Arkansas that we are in made public and those who are respon­ scale shipments of cotton by producers complete agreement. I wlll even join the sible be taken to task. I did not know and storage operators in the south­ two Senators from Arkansas in pointing that they had had conferences in their western area" an arid area, to be made out that no doubt there have been scores offices with the Department. That is to the more humid southeastern area, of so-called violations involving a frac­ perfectly proper. But why is it that I, as where they could add 9 to 12 pounds tion of an acre or merely an acre or 2 a Senator, was denied the right to have of extra moisture to the cotton and acres, which are unintentional errors. some information on this same prob­ where they could get a higher support Being familiar with farming operatiOns, lem? I would strongly suggest that in price. In that way they were able to I know that that could happen with a the future the Department of Agriculture collect money for the extra moisture farmer who was doing his best to comply recognize that they have a responsibility that was added to the cotton. This was with the law. I do not in anyway ad­ to answer these letters when they receive not intended under the farm program. vocate that those farmers who are try­ them from Senators even though the Over $1 mlllion went down the rathole in ing to live up to their obligatiOns should Senators may be members of the minor­ connection with that procedure. be punished or publicly censored for an ity. As one in the minority I intend that All the Department had to say was, unintentional error in acreage. my letters be answered and that they be "We will see to it that this does not But, as the Senator has pointed out, answered directly to me and not through happen again." This could not have in the case of a hundred or more acres some other Senator. happened in the first place without ei­ being overplanted, they are not accidents. Mr. McCLELLAN. Let me say to the ther collusion or stupidity on the part These were deliberate violations, and we distinguished Senator from Delaware of some official. Farmers in the south­ have a right to know who did it. [Mr. WILLIAMS] that I thank him for his western area were allowed to transport The Government has already collected ents concerning the two Senators cotton to the southeastern area, where close to half a milllon dollars in fines; :.rkansas. I knQW in my own mind the weather is more humid, and in that they know from whom they have col­ e Senator intended no reflection way they added more moisture to the lected those fines. There is nothing im­ upon either of us. However, let me cotton and were able to collect more proper about asking who the violators point out that in view of the Senator's money under the support program. were. Does this go beyond the Arkansas March 8, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 4241 country to join me in Selma for a ministers' State troop'ers and mounted deputies bom­ legislation, it was necessary to make march on Montgomery Tuesday morning." barded 600 praying Negroes with tear gas to­ some compromises that now appear to "n the Negroes reached the church, day and then waded Into them with clubs, .f the less seriously injured hurled a whips, and ropes injuring scores. have been costly. Of particular impor­ ..ticks and bottles at the pursuing posse­ . The troopers and possemen, under Gov. tance was the compromise that was made . Within moments, a contingent of George C. Wallace's orders to stop the Negroes in the field of enforcing voting rights. nearly 50 troopers and possemen, under the "walk for freedom" from Selma to Mont­ As former head of the civil rights section orders of Sheriff Clark, marched down the gomery, chased the screaming, bleeding of the U.S. Department of Justice, Mr. street outside the church in a phalanx. The marchers nearly a mile back to their church, Burke Marshall pointed out in a brilliant Negroes quickly cleared the sidewalks, dart­ clubbing them as they ran. document entitled "Federalism and Civil ing into houses, the Church, and its adjacent Ambulances screamed in relays between Rights," it is necessary to make further parsonage. Good Samaritan Hospital and Brown's Chapel The Negroes started out today to walk the Church, carrying hysterical men, women, improvement by way of legislation in 50 miles to Montgomery to protest to Wallace and children suffering head wounds and tear that field if we are to accord to the the denial of Negro voting rights in Alabama. gas burns. Negro in the South his right to vote. Wallace announced yesterday he would not Mr. President, Sunday's outrage in Sel­ Surely the activities of recent days have allow the march, and authorized his troop­ ma, Ala., makes passage of legislation to underscored that need with clarity. ers w use "all necessary means" to stop It. Mr. CLARK. Mr. President, will the When they reached the foot of the bridge, guarantee Southern Negroes the right Senator yield further? Highway Patrol Maj. John Cloud raised a to vote an absolute imperative for Con­ Mr. MONDg.E. I yield. . bullhorn to his mouth and ordered the gress this year. ·The citizens of Minne­ Negroes to stop. sota and of the United States can no Mr, CLARK. I have been interested "This march you propose is not conducive longer tolerate the trampling of human in the apparent impatience of some of to safety," he said. "This march will not rights by southern law enforcement offi­ our Republican friends on the other side continue. You have 2 minutes to disperse." cers in the name of law and order. This of the aisle-impatience indicating a Hosea W1l1iams, a Negro leader at the is totalitarian oppression at its worst­ keen desire to move ahead with addi­ head of the column, asked Cloud if he could tional voter registrar legislatIon. "have a word with you." it is what we fought against in World War II and it is what we are fighting Speaking for myself only, I would hope "You may disperse or go back to the church very much that the Department of Jus­ or we will break it up," Cloud replied. against in the cold war today. "There's nothing to talk about." Mr. President, in the President's mov­ tice and, indeed, the President, would Silence fell across the road as the - 2 ing state of the Union address he called move expeditiously to send such pro­ minutes pa.ssed, the Negroes and the troopers upon the Congress, not once, but twice, posed legislation to Congress. I under­ staring at each other. Then Cloud ordered to enact legislation to insure the right to stand there is still not complete agree­ the troopers in. vote for those who are denied it in the ment in the executive branch as to what About two dozen ran into the Une of the terms of the proposed legislation Negroes, shoving them back and clubbing United States. I believe that the in­ stances of outrageous behavior in Selma, should be. This is an extremely compli­ them. The possemen advanced from the rear. cated subject. I can understand how The Negroes retreated about 50 yards, then Ala., eloquently underscore the impor­ stopped. Suddeniy the troopers began firing tance of the President's plea. wise lawyers might differ on the appro­ round after round of tear gas into the croWd. Yesterday was a sad day for America. priate provisions. But I hope that we shall have such a bill before us pretty The Negroes, coughing, choking, and It WW! a day of which we shall always be screaming, stumbled, fell, trooperse charged asllamed. soon. If we do not, speaking for myself ery direction. The troopers charged I suppose we could be content with and several other Democrats who were the front and the possemen galloped active in that fight for the Civil Rights n the rear. the observation that the State troopers Act of 1964, we shall introduce our own a waS quiet but tense tonight. Sher­ of Alabama produced an enormous psy­ bill. l1f Clark started broadcasting radio appeals chological weapon which the CommuniSts late In the day asking everyone to stay off will surely use. But I do not believe it . Mr MONDALE. I thank the Senator the streets tonight. is enough for us to predicate our activ­ from Pennsylvania for that comment. However, many of the Negroes who had ities on what is good or what is bad for I am confident that this administration taken part in the march gathered tonight at the Communist Party. Rather, we should is concentrating on the matter of prepar­ Brown's Chapel Church for a mass meeting. base our activities on what is basic to ing legislation in this field to be presented to Congress. The activities that we have PROFESSOR TELLs WHY HE MAllcHED , the freedom, the welfare, and the decency of American society. I am proud of those just witnessed on the past Sunday ought SELMA, ALA., March 7.-Dr. Frederick Kraus to underscore the need for prompt action has remained silent on the issue of civil in the South, both white and black, who rights during his 12 years as a professor at have been brave enough to stand strong in this field, the University of Alabama, but he says his and without compromise in the 'common conscience now has forced him to take a pub­ plea for the civil rights of all Americans. lic stand with the Negro in his drive for VFW HONORS THE HONORABLE I hope that we can say in justice and JOHNW. McCORMACK equality. decency that help is coming. Kraus is a member of a new group known Mr. CLARK. Mr. President, will the Mr. BASS. Mr. President, most Mem­ as Concerned White Citizens of Alabama. bers of the Senate are, I am confident, The group of about 70 staged its first demon­ Senator yield? stration march In Selma Saturday and indi­ M"r MONDALE. I yield. aware that the distinguished Speaker of cated this was only the beginning of its Mr. CLARK. I have listened with the House of Representatives, the Hon­ work. great interest to the Senator's eloquent orable JOHN W. MCCORMACK will, on "We have remained silent for a long time, comment on the most unfortunate-to Tuesday, March 9, be the recipient of one trying to give moral support to the Negroes," put it mildly-occurrences in Alabama of our Nation's outstanding awards. Kraus said in an interview. yesterday. I wonder if my friend w1ll The occasion is the annual cOngres­ "1 personally felt it was time to show that sional banquet of the Veterans of Foreign a group of demonstrators can have a face agree with me that the Congress of the United States will have to pass some pro­ Wars of the United states. The banquet other than that of the Negro," he said. is to be held at the Sheraton-Park Hotel. "There were a lot more people who wanted posed legislation assuring voting rights to march with us, but they were afraid," he if we are to bring that situation under At the banquet, the national commander said. "Next time it will not be so." control. in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Kraus is a professor of dentistry at the Mr. MO~ I thank the distin­ who is well known to many Members of university medical center in Birmingham. glilsneo-senator from Pennsylvania for the Senate-John A. Jenkins, of Bir­ He was joined in the march by two other Ala­ that inquiry, I believe the evidence mingham, Ala.-w1ll present the VFW's bama professors, Dr. Ted Klitzke, head of clearly refiects the need for such legisla­ Congressional Award to Speaker Mc­ the are department at the university's main tion. We are all proud of the fact that CORMACK. campus in Tuscaloosa, and Dr. Ed Carlson, in 1964 COngress took the most forward Mr. President, I am sure that Mem­ a hysics professor. looking step since the Civil War to ad­ bers of the Senate will agree with me " MONPALE I would like to call vance the cause of human rights by the that Speaker MCCORMACK is fully quali­ .I attention to the following para- adoption of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, fied for this high award, because its in­ But in the course of the adoption of that scription, "for outstanding service to the No. 43--11 ...

4242 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE March 8, 1965 Nation," accurately describes his con­ are the principal difficulties which have of tl1e provisions of the Legislative Reor­ tributions and achievements during his reduced Congress to what I have de­ ganization Act of 1946 to conclude that long years of able and faithful service scribed as the "sapless branch" on our much of the useful work accomplisJo • by that committee was done 1n violatiOl to our Nation. tree of government. -limitations in the committee's charte . It is my understanding that a very I point out again that it is difficult, in­ largenumber of the Members of the Sen­ deed, if not impossible-I suggest it is As the Senator well k~ows, I have ate and the House will be present at the impossible-to make any full and com­ always said-and I believe it to be true­ VFW banquet on Tuesday evening, to plete study of the organization and op­ that fully 50 percent of the committee join with VFW Commander Jenkins in eration of Congress, 'as the resolution work related to realinement, reorga­ honoring Speaker MCCORMACK. provides, if the committee to be ap­ nization, and definition of the jurisdic­ I ask unanimous consent tu have pointed under the resolution is forbidden tion of the various committees, together printed in the RECORD, the text of the to make any recommendations with re­ with a 50 percent reduction in the total statement of VFW Commander Jenkins spect to the heart of congressional re­ number. The Senator has previously in announcing that the 1965 VFW Con­ form which, in my judgment, consists of stated-in testimony before the commit­ greSsional Award will be made to the the need to revise and modernize the tee-that the language of the bill did Honorable JOHN W. MCCORMACK, Speak­ rules, parliamentary procedures, prac­ not permit us to do this. He is laboring er of the House of Representatives. tices, and/or precedents of either House, under a misapprehension because not There being no objection, the state­ and matters being considered on the fioor only was the first proviso: ment was ordered to be printed in the of either House That nothing in th1s concurrent resolu­ RECORD, as follows: Mr. MONRONEY. Mr. President, tion shall be construed to authorize the KANSAS CITY, MO.-.l"ohn A. Jenkins, Bir­ does the Senator from Pennsylvania wish committee to make any recommendations with respect to the rules, parliamentary mingham, Ala., commander in chief of the to yield at this time, or does he wish to Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United complete his statement? procedure, practices, and/ or precedents of States, announced Tuesday that Speaker of either House, or the consJderation of any Mr. CLARK. I shall be glad to yield matter on the fl.oor of e1ther House • • •. the U.S. House of Representatives, JOHN W. to the Senator from Oklahoma; then I MCCORMACK, of Massachusetts, had been se­ shall complete my statement. But, the second proviso, also: "that lected by the organization's National Coun­ the language employed herein shall not cll of Administration to receive the VFW's Mr. MONRONEY. The Senator has second annual "Congressional Award." repeated two or three times that this prohibit the committee from studying The reCipient of the first Congressional proposal would prohibit the' committee and recommending the consolidations Award was Senator CARL HAYDEN, of Arizona. from studying anything other than what and reorganization of committees," was In addition to a large plaque depicting the is completely outside the practices, in the original La Follette-Monroney U.S. Capitol, a $1,000 scholarship is estab­ procedures, or rules of either House. Act. So the study was speCifically au­ lished in the name of the recipient for grad­ Mr. CLARK. I thought I said "mak­ thorized to make recommendations as uate study in government or political sci­ to the structure of the committees and ence. The award carries the simple Inscrip­ ing recommendations." tion "for outstanding service to the· Nation." Mr. MONRONEY. No; the Senator their various jurisdictions. To have done It w1l1 be presented to Speaker MCCORMACK, said "study and make recommenda­ otherwise would have been to prevent March 9 on the occasion of the organization's tions." If I am incorrect, I apologize. the major achievement of reorganiza­ annual dinner in Washington honoring I thought I understood the Senator to tion. Members of Congress who served in the say "study." That was the point I These other matters discussed bv e Armed Forces. Senator from Pennsylvania are gen' y In announcing the seleotlon of Speaker wished to make, to keep the record straight. There is no prohibition so well known that they do not r e MCCORMACK, Commander in Chief Jenkins study by a reorganization co e. said, "It is the hope of our National Coun­ against listening to or studying any cil of Administration that by granting this testimony that might affect Senate Any time we have the votes, as the dis­ award It will call attention not only to the rules, practices, or procedures. Obvi­ tinguished Senator from Pennsylvania dedicated service of the recipient, but to ously, a large number of political scien­ knows, we can modify or change a Sen­ other deserving Members of the Congress tists will come before us to testify, as ate rule. Any time we have the votes, who share the accomplishments for which they did in previous years when the we can change or modify rule XXII. the VFW Congressional Award is made each Any time the House has the votes, as has year." question of reorganization was being considered. They did not come to speak happened a number of times, to invoke in behalf of one reform, but-in behalf of the 21-day rule, that action can be ESTABLISHMENT OF JOINT COM­ many reforms. achieved. MITTEE ON THE ORGANIZATION Obviously, there will be critical discus­ Once the reorganization ball is rolling, OF THE CONGRESS sion of committee reform; ana that will many things that might not come within be all right. I shall be happy to receive the strict limits of the jurisdiction of the The Senate resumed the consideration any critical testimony concerning com­ resolution will come in later as a by­ of the concurrent resolution (S. Con. mittee organization, the same as I product of the mood of reorganization Res. 2) to establish a Joint Committee should be with respect to rule XXII, o~ that Congress erigenders. We begin to on the Organization of the ·Congress. with respect to evidence that might be achieve one end, although we may be Mr. CLARK. Mr. President, I return derogatory to the House Committee on initially prohibited from including a to the discussion of the pending busi­ Rules. second or a third goal. But the spirit of ness, which is Senate Concurrent Reso­ During the entire 1946 process, when reorganization and improvement of the lution 2, submitted by the Senator from Senator La Follette was chairman of internal operation of Congress takes Oklahoma [Mr. MONRONEY] and a large the committee and I was vice chairman, hold, and in that spirit we find a willing­ number Of additional Senators, and to witnesses were at liberty to testify with ness to act on other matters. the pending motion, which is my motion For that reason, the Senator from to strike the proviso which begins on full latitude. But when it came to line 24, page 2. writing the report, we based our recom­ Pennsylvania might not be losing as mendations on those matters within the much as he thinks by ~pting the re­ Before the debate was interrupted in scope of our authority. We made our strictions that were included in the origi­ order to extend courtesy to some Sena­ recommendations without transgressing nal La FOllette-Monroney charter of tors who wished to speak on other sub­ the restrictions that were imposed when 1945 and in the act of 1946. Much was jects, I had said that this proviso, which the resolution was adopted. '. accomplished by the enactment of some in effect provides that the committee Today, the Senator from Pennsyl­ 38 reforms. Much more was accom­ shall have no power to make recommen­ vania has criticized the language on plished after the passage of the act by dations with respect to the rules, parlia­ page 5 of the committee report. I quote the enactment of many other reforms mentary procedures, practices, and/or from his statement in the minority not contemplated in ~ a strict interpre - precedents of either House, or the con­ views: tion of the charter under whict sideration of any matter on the fioor of We realize that the resolut10n of 1945 worked at the time, but which beer either House, would prohibit the pro­ setting up the La Follette-Monroney com­ part of the House and Senate . POSed joint committee from looking into mittee contained a similar exclusion. But Mr. CLARK. The Senator from those matters which, in my judgment, it requires no more than a casual scanning homa has made two points. With March 25, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE 5727 Whereas control of certain wild animals is RESOLUTION URGING RELAXATION to vote. I ask that the resolution be ~ for the prevention of rabies in hu­ OF LIMITS ON VETERANS' IN­ printed in the RECORD. , wildlife, and livestock: Now, therefore, COMES FOR ELIGmILITY TO RE­ There being no objection, the resolu­ tion was ordered to be printed in the ktf'olved by the Senate oj Texas, the House CEIVE PENSIONS RECORD, a.s.follows: Representatives concurring, That the legIs­ Mr. TOWER. Mr. President, recently lature of Texas express Its approval of the SENATE RESOLUTION 5 request by the Bureau of Fisheries and Wild­ I received a most thoughtful resolution Resolution urging the President, Vice Pres­ life for the continuation of the predator and adopted by Galveston Barracks No. 1447, ident, and Attorney General of the United rodent control program, which has effectively of the Veterans of World War I of the States and the Governor of Alabama to aided sportsmen, ranchers, stockmen, and the U.S.A. protest the rights of citizens of Alabama general economy, and oppose any reduction So that other Senators may share the to assemble and to vote or lessening of adequate support thereof; views of the members of Barracks No. Whereas the constitutional rights of cer­ and be it further 1447, I ask unanimous consent that the iain citizens of Alabama to vote and to peace­ Resolved, That copies of this resolution be ably assemble are being forcibly repressed forwarded to the President of the U.S. Sen­ resolution be printed at this point in by that State, in a violent manner intolerable ate, to the U.S. Senators from Texas, to the the RECORD. to freemen; and Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, There being no objection, the resolu­ Whereas such forcible repression is in vio­ and to the dean of the Texas delegation In tion was ordered to be printed in the lation of the oaths of olfice of the Governor the U.S. House of Representatives. RECORD, as follows: of that State, and the public olficlals acting PREsTON SMITH, GAI,lIESTON BARRACKS No. 1447, under him, to support and defend the Con­ Lieutenant Governor, VETERANS OF WORLD WAR I OF THE U.S.A. stitution of the United states; and President Of the Senate. Whereas it Is the duty of government to The following resolution was adopted on protect the rights of the citizen against abuse March 11, 11l65, by Galveston (Tex.) Barracks and oppression, no matter what Its source; RESOLUTION ON BRACERO LABOR No. 1447, Veterans of World War I of the and U.S.A.: Whereas the public authorities of Alabama Mr. TOWER. Mr. President, the "Whereas existing legislation (sec. 503 of have been unwilling to assume that duty, League of United Latin American Citi­ title 38, U.S.C.) sets limits on war veterans' and instead appear to be harassing and in­ zens of San Antonio has recently adopted incomes for eligibllity to draw the veterans juring th06e who assert their rights, in a a. resolution concerning bracero la.bor. pension well below the poverty level now rec­ manner befitting a totalitarian police state; ognized as a basic for economic opportunity and In order that the entire Senate may needs; share the views of council No.2 on this Whereas the passage of the Civil Rights "Whereas many pensioners and annUitants, Act of 1964 makes it clear that the voting important issue, I ask unanimous con­ because of the poverty Income level set by rights of our people and their freedom to sent that the resolution be printed at existing law, are not eligible to enjoy the assemble peaceably shall not be abridged: this point in the RECORD. benefits of cost-of-livlng increases granted Now, therefore, be It . There ·being no objection, the resolu­ to an individual under public or private re­ Resolved by the Senate and oj the State tion was ordered to be printed in the tirement, annuity, endowment or similar oj Minnesota that, The public authorities of type plans or programs, and some veterans Alabama be urged to recognize the civil rights RECORD, as follows: must either forego or waive such paid-in RESOLUTION of all their citizens, That they suberdinate benefits as those offered under certain public their fears and intolerance to the truth of Whereas there is now pending In the or private retirement plans; and Judeo-Christian ethics and precepts and that gress of the United States proposed leg­ Whereas veterans with only the small pen­ they take the steps necessary to protect their on for the importation of bracero la­ sion for support find themselves in utterly citizens and preserve their rights before it s from Mexico; and dire circumstances and are all but humili­ becomes Immediately necessary to interpose ~rea.s the contention by the proponents ated by a Government pledged to give reason­ further Federal force, and lacking Immediate o legislation that the domestic stoop able recognition for services rendered In the State action, that the President be urged to labor force is Inadequate, is false and a interest of national security: Be it instruct the Attorney General to take im­ subterfuge; and "Resolved, That either the aforementioned mediate steps to Implement the powers of Whereas Lula.c Council No.2 Is well aware income limitation be raised to more reason­ the Federal Government to protect the rights that there are now in Texas thousands of able levels, so as to remove the poverty pen­ of American citizens, through the use of U.S. unemployed migratory farm laborers; more alty and stigma, or that a law be enacted by marshalls and such other law enforcement than su1!lclent to meet the needs of all em­ the Congress to amend section 503 of title 38 agents as are legally and properly required ployers, farmers and growers and the only of the United States Code to exclude from to carry out the law and to secure the rights reason why this availability of domestic labor consideration as income for the purpose of of Americans who find themselves deprived force is not being utll1zed is the refusal of determining pension eligibility, all amounts of their basic freedom; be it further these employers, farmers and growers to pay paid to an Individual under public or private Resolved, That the secretary of the senate decent wages; and retirement, annUity, endowment, or similar be Instructed to send copies of this resolu­ Whereas the true effect of the proposed type plans or programs. (Attention is In­ tion to the Honorable Lyndon B. Johnson, legislation is to subject the thousands of ·vited to H.R. 5677, already offered and sched­ President of the Unlted States, the Honor­ Americans of Mexican descent whose liveli­ uled for study by the Committee on Veterans' able Hubert H. Humphrey, the Vice President hood depends on this type of work to star­ Affairs. It is recommended that this bill be of the United States, the Honorable Nicholas vation wages and a substandard way of living amended to afford relief for veterans who Katzenbach, the Attorney General of the wholly incompatible with decency and are ineligible for retirement pay under pro­ United states, the Honorable George C. Wal­ health. That the American of Mexican grams other than the penSion legislation.)" lace, the Governor of Alabama, and Mem­ descent of the State of Texas pleads for an MORRIS H. MILLER, bers of Congress from the State of Min­ opportunity for economic growth and for Commander. .nesota. a full share in the participation of the new DONALD J. NELSON, CY TORREY, society: Therefore, be It Adjutant. Secretary oj the Senate. Resolved, That Lulac Council No. 2 does hereby opposes any and all proposed legisla­ tion calling for the importation of bracero RESOLUTION URGING THE PRESI­ THE 144TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE laborers or the importation of any other DENT AND OTHER OFFICIALS TO INDEPENDENCE OF GREECE labor force and petitions our Congressmen PROTECT THE RIGHTS OF CITI­ and Senators to actively work and vote for Mr. SCOTr. Mr. President, today is the defeat of this legislation. That copies ZENS OF ALABAMA TO ASSEMBLE the 144th anniversary of Greek inde­ of this resolution be mailed to Lyndon B. AND VOTE pendence. It is a happy occasion for the Johnson, President of the United States, Sen­ Mr.~_Mr. President, on be­ people of Greece, and for all who love ator RALPH W. YARBOROUGH, Senator JOHN half of my colleag\fe [Mr. MCCARTHY] freedom. ToWER, and U.S. Congressman HENRY B. GONZALEZ. and myself, I present a resolution, Our form of government in the United in (Adopted at a regular meeting of Lulac adopted by the Senate of the State of States is, large part, derived from the Council No.2 on Friday, March 5,1965.) Minnesota, urging the President, the Greeks. Our democratic system is based ALEX ALCOCER, Vice President, and the Attorney Gen­ .largely on the principles laid down by President, Lulac Council NO.2. eral of the United States and the G()V­ the great Greek philosophers and states­ PETE TrJERlNA, ernor of Alabama to protect the rights men of ancient times. The founders of Chairm.an, Lulac Council NO.2. of citizens of Alabama to assemble and our country, notably Hamilton and 5728 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE March 25, 1965 Washington, were greatly lnfiuenced by EX-CONGRESSMEN KEEp INTDEST IN PuBLIC paredness movement and was one of the the ideals of freedom, liberty, and na­ LIFE: MILLER BOSSES PABKS IN RENO originators of the military training <''' . (By Tom Greer) program. He served his own mllltr tional independence practiced by the prenticeship at Plattsburgh, N.Y" b statesmen of ancient Greece. The five living former U.S. Representatives In 1915. In the largest sense, the whole West­ from Delaware share some common back­ It wasn't all work in Washington, tho ern World is ·indebted to Greece for the ground characteristics. Miller was a member of the Republican con­ All are native Delawareans, four of them gressional baseball team, pitching and play­ enlightenment of man and the advance­ Wllmlngtonlans. All are Republicans. ment of civilization. ing right field. In the 1916 game In Wash­ Four served as commissioned oflicers during Ington-which the Republicans won 9 to 6-­ Greece began its inspiring history when wartime. he caught the ball thrown out by Prealdent she threw off the chains of subservience They share another characteristic: a con­ Woodrow Wilson. to the ottoman Empire on March 25, tinuing taste for public life. Each pursued Miller recalled that he placed In nomina­ 1821. Archbishop Germanos of Patras a career In some facet of government or poli­ tion the name of Gen. T. Coleman du Pont joyously raised the fiag of freedom over tics after ending his service In the House of as Delaware's favorite son presidential can­ the monastery of Kalavrita at the end Representatives. didate at the Republican National Conven­ of the bitter 6-year Greek War of In­ The lives of these five former lawmakers tion In Chicago in June 1916. He said that will be examined In a series of articles, begin­ Du Pont received a smattering of compl1- dependence. ning today with that of the eldest. / mentary votes from a half-dozen other From 1827, when free Greece elected It has been 50 years since Thomas W. Mil­ States. Demetrios Capodistrias as President, the ler, 78, went to Washington as U.S. Repre­ When the United States entered World nation has built slowly but surely against sentative from Delaware but the half War I In 1917, Miller enlisted as a private In the heavy odds of poverty and wars. century hasn't dulled his zest for public the Infantry. He rose to the rank of lieu­ Greeks and Americans often have service. tenant colonel, was cited for gallantry and stood together when freedom and peace Miller lives In Reno now and he's as sharp meritorious conduct and awarded the Pur­ as a needle from a Nevada cactus--or a leaf pie Heart. were threatened. In World War n, the of Delaware holly. He Is well Informed about After the war he was a cofounder and an outnumbered Greek Army helped defeat Delaware affairs, as well as those In his Incorporator of the American Legion, serv­ Mussolini's Fascist legions. adopted state. ing as vice president and presiding ofIicer of Americans and Greeks fought shoulder "I subscribe to the Wilmington Morning the Paris caucus, at which the Legion came to shoulder when they defeated the Com­ News," he said In a telephone conversation Into being. munist attempt to subjugate Greece. As recently. "I realize you're not related to Miller Is the only man in the Nation to a nation, Greece has strengthened the the late A. O. H. Grier (veteran News-Journal have held the highest Legion post In two Western alliance far out of proportion editor and writer) by the spelllng of your States. He was State department com­ name. mander of Delaware In 1932-33 and held the to its size and its 8 million population, "The death of my good friend Senator C. same oflice In Nevada In 1943-44. and has fought communism longer than Douglass Buck was a great shock. I feel a He was also a member of the Legion's na­ any other nation of the North Atlantic deep sense of tragedy, for I grew up with tional executive committee from Delaware, Treaty' Organization. him," he added In the next 'breath. from 1919-28, and still serves in a slmlllU' America owes much to Greece for the On another tack, st1ll in the same 30 sec­ capacity from Nevada. important roles that one and a half mil­ onds: "I see my friend BUI Frank went to Long having had Interests in mining and lion Americans of Hellenic background Panama. Say hello to Bill for me~' ranching, Miller moved to Nevada In 1934, have played in our society. They have Born In Wilmington June 26, 1886, Thomas where he became active In that State's con­ Woodnutt Miller Is the son of the late Charles servation movement. He Is the origins' f distinguished themselves in every area R. Miller, a former Delaware Governor, He the Nevada parks system and served as of human endeavor, from cancer special­ attended public schools here and graduated man of the Nevada State Park COInI ist to military hero, from musician to from Yale University In 1908. untll his ofliclal retirement In 1959. congenial restauranteur. He served as secretary to Representative He Is now chairman of the City of Reno Today, Greece's ideals of liberty and William H. Heald, of Delaware, 191G-12, and Park and Horticultural Comm1aa1on, a mem­ justice, which have never been destroyed during that period stuc11ed law in Washing­ ber of the Washoe County Republican Com­ by force of tyranny and aggression, con­ ton. He was Secretary of State of Delaware mittee, a member of the board of the desert from 1913 to 1915. protective councll (a conservation group), a tinue to offer hope and inspiration to all When he was elected U.S. Representative people of the world wanting to be free. member of the home service committee of In 1914 he was the youngest elected to the the Red Cross, a Junior warden and vestry­ 64th Congress. Part of his single 1915--17 man of Trinity Episcopal Church, Reno. term coincided with his father's term as Mllier likes to travel and hunt big game, THOMAS W. MILLER, ONE OF Governor. "Deer and elk mostly, and sage hen some­ NEVADA'S MOST DISTINGUISHED Harking back to his congreSSional years, times," he says Identifying the last as west­ CITIZENS Miller recalls that with the advent of World ern game bird. War I, companies trading In munitions with Miller goes to the park and horticultural Mr. BmLE. Mr. President, last week's the AlUes came under attack on the floor. commission oflices In Reno's city hall every American Legion convention in Wash- One such Incident occurred In December day, he said, and also has a private ofllce In ington, D.C., brought one of the more 1915, when Representative Clyde H. Taven­ the park. colorful leading figures in Nevada to the ner, Democrat, of Dlinols, renewed his at­ Miller was married to Katherine Marie Capital. Thomas W. Miller, of Reno, a _ tacks, with particular reference to the Du Tallman In Wilmington, October 4, 1913. A member of the Legion's national execu- Pont Co. Miller said that In one of his Inl- year after her death In 1945, he mlU'r1ed , tlal remarks on the House floor, he replied tlVe committee, is not only one of so vigorously that Speaker Champ Clark sent Eleanor Taylor, of Reno. There are two chil­ Nevada's most distinguished citizens but the sergeant at arms with his mace to sepa­ dren by his first marriage, Comdr. Thomas Lloyd Miller, U.S. Navy, retired, of MIami, also is among the oldest living former rate the two Congressmen. Fla., and Stonington, Conn.; and Mrs. George Representatives from the State of Dela- In another Instance, Miller said he en- ware. gaged In a fioor fight supporting the Du Pont P. Bissell, Jr., of Greenville. He has six grandchlldren, the eldest of whom Is Russell Mr. Miller is currently serving as Co. when an embargo bill that would have Tallman Mlller, a resident of Nevada and the chairman of the Reno Park Commission, prevented munitions shipments to the Allies was being debated. Representative Dorsey father of the elder Mlller's two great-grand­ only one of the many public services he W. Shackleford, Democrat, of Missouri, was children. has performed for my state since moving needling Miller for his opposition to the bill. MilleI' returned to Wilmington brledy last to Nevada in 1934. "The gentleman from DelawlU'e represents a summer and while here, culled from his Mr. President, I ask unanimous con- State with three counties when the tide Is stored personal papers those be considered sent to have printed in the RECORD a out and two when It Is In," said Shackleford. worth keeping. He Is well known In Dela­ February 20 news story published in the Miller replied, In part: "He (Shackleford) ware and has many friends here, although has to Impute unfair motives to me but he he has outlived many of his contemporaries Wilmington, Del., Evening Journal was perfectly willing to have an embargo on In Delaware pol1tics. describing the career of Mr. Miller. everything else except the great Missouri Miller now Is busy with plans for his an­ There being no objection, the article mule, the animal that hauls the engines of nual trip to Washington next month was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, war," chairman of the American Legion's nat' as follows: Miller was identified early with the pre- legislative liaison comIn1ttee. THE VOTING RIGHTS BILL Mr. MONDALE. Mr. President, I aJXl most honored to be listed -as a cosponsor of 8. 1564, the Voting Rights Act of 1965. as other Members of the Congress, the ju­ I believe that It is absolutely necessary diciary, thll Cabinet, and the gallery arose that this Congress act promptly and de­ spontaneously to its feet to applaud when cisively to guarantee to all Americans President Johnson praised the Negro for his the que ~njoyment of their God-given, struggle to get the United States in line with human.-and constitutional rights. I am the' almB and promises of its Constitution. SUPPOrted in this position by an oyer­ In commenting on the long struggle for whelming majority of the citizens of the human rights in this Nation he told the State of Minnesota. As but one indica­ people of the Nation that, "The real hero of this struggle Is the American Negro." As true tion of their SUPPOrt for my position and as this statement Is, no President before the position of. President Lyndon B. Johnson had ever so frankly and forcibly Johnson. I ask una~01lS consent that reminded the country of the Negro's mag­ an . eCDtod~ from the Minneapolis nlfic1ent courage under extreme adversity, ~ of March 18, 1965, be re­ and those auditors who were touched by the 'printed a..oihia point in t~ RECORD. magntftca.nce truth, and courage of his .etate- Cecil Be Jlewman. editor of the Minne- - ment could not help but stand and applaud. We doubt that in the years ahead Lyndon . ap6llil Spokesman. wrote the editorial: Baines Johnson will ever have a finer hour and I think he Is to be commended for than he had Monday night. HIs "we shall that and for his li'telong dedication to overcome," was also a tribute to those brave the cause of equal rights for an. I am Negroes and whites who have led and proud to have this opportunity to bring marched in behalf of freedom and justice, to the attention of j:Jle Congress Qf the now. He accepted the genuine applause with United mates Jab dedication and. the a sober dignity that reminded one of the long dedication of all our Mlnnesotaqs ' to hard road stUl ahead. We felt rather proud of belnl an Amer­ these principles.. I . Ican Monday night despite our obvious con­ There beinf no objection, the editorial tinued concern against the injustice which was ordered to be printed In the RzeORD, is practiced against our Negro people, as as fonows; President Johnson pointed out in all 50 of A Pal:smEllT'S FINEST HOUB our States. Our pride was based on what Monday ntght the Pree1deut of the United. we believe is the abil1ty of this Nation and States, Lyndon Ba1n.es JohDson of Texas, its people "when the chips are dQlWJl" to make made perhapl the greatest speeeh a Chief a final determination based on truth and justice. This has happened all through the EKecutiTe of '$bJif great Na.tion ever macle, on the unresolVllCl right of the NegJ'Q 110 full history of this Nation and the time has coma voting right. in this countl'y-dlht'te which f"or it to happen in the Instance of the Amer­ are guarantee4 by the Conatitution and BIY ican Negro--for no force as President John­ of Rights. son said, "can keep back the tide of freedom No other Pree1dent speaking to Congress and justice." anll the AmerlcaD people hI/IIl ever betore so He asked the Congress to p~ as soon as honeStly, unequlvocally, and courageously possible a voting rights bill which would laid the issue so squarely a.nd fully on the insure the right to vote of every American line--for all to see and heed. citizen who can write his nflUle, in all elec­ Pulling no pune!le8, Mr. Johnson placed tions; local, State, and National., ,If sucb the violation ot tbe ti(hts of the Negro to legislation Is passed, and -it must be enacted, the ballot, the accepted practice In a num­ the final barriers to full citizenship Will haY~ ber of States, tight out where the whole been pushed aside to allow every qual1fte(t WOfld could _ It. And l.J1 40_ BO, he ar­ American' man and woman of voting age to rayed. himself ancl the pawer of ble oftIce participate in the selection of public om~ deflnttely on the alde of tile Negroes who This will greatly affect the peace, ~, have been denJecl the right tb vote by in­ and unity of the country which has IaIM been timidation, murder, beatings. economtc re­ divided by the dental of constituti~ts, prisals, and trick tests set up and designed to part of the country's citizenry. by State legislatures and vote zegisttars for The Nation owes a debt ot gratitUde to the BOle purpose of Jteeping the Negro dis­ President Johnson and the aroused public franchised. opinion which convinced him that he had There was no eQMprODtlae in the BOuthern to take a strong position and promised him accent and vOice of 4-,IIOuthern,born President the support which made his Monday night whO, although adnllt'l'.edlJ prOUd Qf the re­ speech such a great document of true states­ glon of his birth, ncosnlzl.J1g its strengths manshlp.-CECIL NEWMAN. aDd wealmellees, _ prepared to disregard all except \be tight. 'll'hich he said all Amerl­ oana must eD.f&y equally, if this Nation was , to Uve up to its great promise and national law. In President Johnson's message there was n a word of comfort to the Wallaces, the ..

"7920 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE April 21, 1965~ ~§ So I got on a plane in the morning and Answer. First, time is a great healer. You with logic and stand up and take it OT ." Mrs. Dirksen met me at O'Hare. We had this h3id to heal the hurts in your own party first. chin. They'll 3idmire you for it. Don't "k Tline-passenger station wagon. There was Question. What about the so-called image the issue." oung chap from WENR (a Chicago FM ra­ to the voters themselves? Question. Senator, are there any station)-riding with us. Mrs. Dirksen Answer". The press and the news media two things that you would particula 1 ike ked "Did the President have anything create the image. If it's going to be changed, to get done still that you haven't done in political to say?" you're going to have to help change it. We your career? I dropped my voice, and I said, "He seemed could shout from .now till doomsday, unless Answer. I don't know. Shall I make up a rather curious when I s3iid I want to get back there's some communication. That has been must list for you? You know I sometimes home to campaign. He said, 'What are you the weakness of the Republican Party-the think in an obverse direction. By that I squawking about? You're in/" Well, this communication of the real stuff to the people. mean this: There's a quotation that stiCks little boy heard it. So he couldn't wait for Question. Is that improving? in my mind: "Ther.e are occasions when that station wagon to stop, and he got that Answer. Yes. It is improving. There's a there must be a negative brake on progress."____ on the station in a hurry. better press; there's a better understanding. And by that I mean that we are moving for­ Sidney Yates, (the Chicago Congressman I think there is a better attitude on the part ward so fast, and so far at one time, that who was DmKsEN's opponent) said that of the public toward the party. Now you are there is danger unless we set the signals and DIRKSEN was a contemptible liar. That's the begi=ing to see a few signs without having try to halt it a little bit--not destroy It-- language that was used. When Sidney heard to put too much effort into it. They had an but slow it down. a.bout it. he called Lawrence O'Brien (the election in Berwyn the other day, just outside I have tried to make that part of my func­ President's liaison aide for Congress). Well, Chicago. Elected a Republican mayor and a tion. Because as Edward Gibbons said in his Lawrence didn't know anything about this. majority of the city council. That was quite great history, "Progress is made, not by what It was between me and the President. No an achievement. goes on the statute books but more often one else was around. Nobody knew anything CAN GOP COMPETE? by what comes off." So I've tried to think about it except Ke=edy and myself. of that in terms of a weapon in the interest Well, you know when your blood pressure Question. On the national scene, Senator, of the country. is up something gives you a charge. And how are you going to compete with the Great So everybody wants to get stuff on books. the mind can range over a whole epic of his­ Society that offers everybody everything and They want to have their tag on it. Well, it's tory and come up with something that seems really offers to the Americans a mille=ium. all well and good. There's some things I suited to the occasion and just like that I Answer. Oh, there are a number of factors. think perhaps ought to get off the books. thought of that damn story that Lincoln First, I don't know if you accept the thesis, Maybe my ultimate epitaph will be: "He told down In Quincy, nl., about two fellows "Parties do not defeat each other, parties tried to help his country by trying to keep it were gassing back and forth. defeat themselves." They offend the public. from making mistakes." One said, "Let me give you a riddle. If Question. Do you feel the Republicans of­ you call a sheep's tail a leg, how many legs fended the public in 1964? SENATOR'S AILMENTS does a sheep have?" he said, "five." The Answer. No, they frightened them-which Question. A lot of people here in Wash­ other fellow said, "Oh, no, he doesn't. call­ is quite a different thing. I've said over and ington have been worried about your health ing a sheep's tail a leg don't make it a leg." over again that I haven't seen an analysis of and about you. A lot of things have been I said, "If Sidney Yates calls me a liar that the 1964 election with Which I could agree. written about that. If they had been true, doesn't make me a liar." Now that's all I I talked with people and I thought I saw you would have been carried out at least know about it. pre1;ty well that you h3id a fear complex op­ 2 weeks ago. Question. I'd like to get you back to Gold­ erating. George Bernard Shaw once said Answer. If it would have been true, I water for just 1 minute. Didn't you have that fear is the only universal passion and would have been carried out 2 years ago. any reason to believe before that campaign it's true. Question. Well, now I know I tried to started that it was going to be the disaster Now, the minute that crack came about make a compilation of all your health prc>~ " . turned out to be? social security, what happened? "Why, he's lems and maladies, and I think I ended ,Answer. No. No. I didn't feel that he going to take away our social security." It with nine. I thought it would be easle s not going to win. I felt he was going to went like wildfire. They were afraid. list the things you didn't have. make an excellent race. What happened He made that crack about the Tennessee Answer. Yeah. You're probably correct. afterward was the result partly of careless Valley Authority. Barry Goldwater knows Question. First of all, you look pretty well expressions and perhaps a little distortion about as well as I do that you could never right now compared to how you looked when in the press. I think that If they had taken sell TVA to private Interests. You couldn't you got out of the hospital. You must feel the trouble to get to the core of It, perhaps get beyond the Senate door with that. But better. Do you? a lot of this would not have happened. it frightened them in the Te=essee' Valley. Answer. Yes. 1 - said, I thought that ac­ For instance, his remark about social se­ Then there came that .trigger-happy state­ cording to the report I had everything ex­ curity. Well, how perfectly Insane for any­ ment which was embellished. The next con­ cept floating kidney and housemaid's knee. one to even think that a President of the clusion was, "He'll get us into war." But I feel quite good. I do have this frac­ United States can repeal the SOCial security I think that Barry had his own answer at ture and I got 20 pounds of steel In that system. the Gridiron Club when he said, "You all damn glrdie I wear and I'll have to wear it EXTREMISM ERROR know me, I'm that trigger-happy SOB, Barry another 4 or 5 months because there Is no Question. Senator, do you think he m3ide Goldwater." They laughed like hell. All medication for a fracture. It has to calcify a mistake in refusing to repudiate the ex­ they had to do was to think what's going on and close and it just takes so long. tremists who were supporting the Republican In Vietnam. Question. How long has it been since the campaign? Trigger-happy, more marines, more ma­ doctor told you you had to quit smoking? Answer. Well, you know I puzzled and rines. When that statement was pl=ed on Answer. Oh, God. He must have told me pondered and I w.ondered where in the world him, we had less than 20,000 out there. 50 years ago. he ever got that expression * * *. There are 32,500 now, and more are going in. Question. Anybody recently? I noticed Question. In his acceptance speech, the That's this trigger-happy guy. you smoked several cigarettes while we were extremist remarks? But when they h3id Barry on the defensive, here. Answer. Oh, yes. They tell me all the Answer. • • * and I finally ran into the he couldn't attaCk. He was so busy defend­ same thing almost verbatim. I think you ing himself on these various charges that time to quit. we never did get to put our story across and Question. What is your attitude toward will find It In Roman history and it was it? ' used by the historian Livy (Titus Livius, 59 I thought we had a good story. B.C.-17 A.D.). So somebody-whoever put Why should his vote on civil rights ob­ Answer. Oh, I'm getting around to It. it together-must have been charging scure the fact that I got all except.six Re­ through these quotations for ready speakers, publicans to vote for the bill? That was the probably saw it there and said, "That sounds party image, not Barry Goldwater. But did it REV. DAVID PREUS PROTESTS REEB pretty good," never thinking about its im­ get to the country? No. MURDER IN ALABAMA plications. nIxm REPUBLICANS Mr MO~lIE. Mr. President, over Now, it's pretty diflicult to 'disown your Question. Are you going to get a Repub­ a mofrt1'i'a¥ rose to address the Senate own baby after you give it birth. That's the lican resurgence In the South? with consternation and dismay over the trouble in this business, When you get in Answer. It's hard to tell. It will develop news of the brutal beating of 600 pray­ those holes, especially If there's a big chunk slowly, I think. There could be a resurgence. of pride wallowing around in you most of the ing civil rights marchers in Selma, Ala. Now we've got those flve young Republican I said then that the only question facing time, you just don't back up. You think the Congressmen from the South. But did you best thing to do is fight it through. notice the Gallup poll this morning with re­ us in Congress is what we and the de.-­ See what it was that Macbeth said to Lady spect to voting rights? That in the South cent and honorable people who knof , acbeth, "I'm In deep, steeped in so deep, 49 percent favor legislation. Well, it almost better will do. I was heartened ther that should I wade no more, returning were knocked my hat off when I saw that figure. after by the vocal and public support f L as tedious as go o'er." . When (Southern Republicans) come In correction of the ills that the Selma situ­ Question. Senator, what has the Republi­ here to see me I say, "Have a real confronta­ ation so well illustrated. At this point, can Party done since November to merit tion with them. Go down there and speak Mr. President, I wish to call the attention better support in 1966 than it had in 1964? your piece. And fortify what you have to say of the Senate to a moving eulogy for April 21, 1965 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE

-..,w that developed a rather interesting CHANGING smES of education you have undergone a histor­ :lacy with the President because you Question. Senator, you yourself have ob­ Ical evolution of your thinking? pick a man's mind day after day sjlrved that at times people have accused you Answer. Somewhat, but there are stitl t knowing what makes him tick. He of being a polltical chameleon because you things about it (the new Federal aid to f kn my weaknesses and shortcomings and have changed your position from time to cation law) that bother me. We've go certainly I know his. Out of it there ripened time. Could you discuss that? see whether the heavy hand of the Fede a very durable friendship that has continued Answer. Did I ever tell you what Lincoln Government is going to try to give direction from that day to tilts even though I some­ put in his message to Congress in 1862? to our whole educational system Including times say things that hurt him. Maybe he Lincoln said, "The dogmas of the quiet past the curriculums. Now, If that's the case, winces a; llttle bit, but when I say It, It will are inadequate to the stormy present. The then I think you're going to see a very con- be in the interests of the country. occasion Is piled high with difficulty and we siderable shuffie. . As an example, he did not llke the state­ must rise with the occasion. As our case is SUPPORTING BARRY ment I made last week about his Baltimore new so we must think anew and act anew." Question. Senator, how do you reconcile speech (offering unconditional discussion on And then he added this one precious sen­ yo~r crucial support for Senator Goldwater Vietnam). You may recall that I suggested tence. He said, "We must first disenthrall last year with your position on the clvU that perhaps they were sounding the trump­ ourselves and then we shall save the coun­ rights question? ets of retreat and why did they have to put try." Answer. First, Barry Goldwater earned the in a bUllon-dollar bundle and make it ap­ That's as good today as it was then. New right to have the nomination. He worked pear that they were going to try to buy peace circumstances develop new duties, new obli­ at it. No meeting was too small for him to in Vietnam? gations, new changes of view and, as I've address. Second, he was quite dUigent In I had a telephone conversation with his said so often, the only people who do not his senatorial duties and he showed his con­ appointments secretary the other day. He change their minds are either in the invol­ victions from time to time on most subjects. said, "the boss is sitting right here.", I untary institutions by an order of the court Third, he seemed to captivate nearly every asked whether he wanted to talk with me or they are occupying a spot In the cemetery. kind of an audience. and he said, "No, he's hurt." I said, "He I hope that will never happen, meaning that Nearly every component in the party was might get hurt a good deal worse before It's I can't change my mind when the occasion on his wagon, more or less. There wasn't all over because I have to say what I think arises. any question In my mind that there was even about a situation." Question. Senator, will you describe the a runner-up In that campaign. That was Those are no love taps he dishes out to me evolution of your philosophy as a trend from No. 1. No.2, he was a friend. No.3, he was either on occasion, as you well know. But the right toward the center over the last 15 a senatorial comrade. that's the great art of leg1slating and not year? Question. If he were a friend, he would letting the sun set on your anger and always Answer. I have always abjured any kind have supported you on civU rights, wouldn't keeping yourself in a poised position for the of a label. When I've been asked I've said, he? benefit of the country. a thousand times, "I'm a garden variety Answer. Well, he had an excellent com­ THE TREATMENT Abraham Lincoln Republlcan. Don't tag me munity service record out In his own com­ Question. Senator, he has been pictured as right. Don't tag me left. Don't tag me cen­ munity as notably desegregating the Arizona a wizard in bringing people around to what ter. Because those terms came over here like National Guard. There are no color lines in he wants them to do. You know-the famous a virus from the Old World and I don't be- the Goldwater stores. And finally, I did not L.B.J. treatment. Have you ever experienced . lleve they fit a free country." know exactly what he was going to do on that? I have convictions. I try to have a sense clvU rights. Answer. Well, I'm afraid the press jumps of history and certainly I try to keep abreast We had discussed it off and on In the back on an expression, gives It currency, and mag­ of the legislative history of the country and room, but I thought surely I could have him nifies It out of all proportion. I think I first get as good a perspective as I can. for cloture (the vote that ended the southern vented that phrase "the Texas twist." Now just to illustrate the point. I went filibuster against the 1964 clvU rights bill' '11, there's no treatment about it, goodness back to read some of the debates in the After that, I thought he would surely Sl OWB. Because It's administered without McKinley administration when Harvey Wiley port me on the bill Itself, but he felt t1. ether. was the chief chemist for the Department parts of it were unconstitutional. It's a case of where the President, If he of Agriculture-. And Congress was dealing Question. Senator to get back to the his­ doesn't like the way one of his own party with the first Food and Drug Act. It's torical perspective, have you wondered what members casts a vote, can call him up and absolutely incredible, the things that were your place would be in history? Has It mo­ can use language that sounds just a llttle said on the fioor of the Senate as to the tivated you in any of the things that you tough and testy. His boys know they've been right of a merchant to adulterate his sugar have done? talked to when he talks to them. If he could get away with it. Answer. First of all, there Is a natural I have had occasion for Members on hls side Well, you know we have risen to a far force. You know in the Apostle Paul's to change their votes when actually they better moral position since then and I try great letter to the Corinthians, he said, were voting in my corner and then come over to keep abreast of the moral imperatives "When I was a chUd, I spake as a chUd." very apologetically to tell me what happened. of history also. You can just take that as a thesis and I know what happened. So that's really not Now, take civil rights. We have the 1957 spell It out. You mature as you grow and a treatment; that's just a llttle verbal twist act, the 1960 act, the 1964 act. I had a you see In a wider, longer perspective. I to say, "You'd better get right with the gods modest bit to do with each one of them, think you get a better sense of mission and that be or difficult things can happen to you." particularly the 1964 act. And I had a vot­ a better sense, I believe, of the moral Im­ That's the rougher side of polltical life. Ing rights bill drafted and ready this spring peratives that push any country and any There are several ways of going about It. before the White House ever got around to people along the road to higher ground. You can threaten, or you can use an oil can. It. So I was no Johnny-come-lately. They Now there are modifications and changes From the standpoint of the abrasive effect finally all gathered In here, and I think that In our country from time to time. New needs, of either of these approaches, I prefer the oU was mainly the overtone of what happened in then, develop because of congestions of peo­ can. 1964. Because they said, "Well, if the·minor­ ple, the necessity for jObs, that sort of thing. Question. How often do you taik with the Ity leader isn't with us, we don't get a As it changes, as Lincoln said, you rise with President on the telephone? bilL" the occasion. If you don't you're going to Answer. It depends on the course of events. So this had happened all over again, and drop with a thud. There are occasions when either I have called most of these meetings to work out a vot­ KENNEDY'S BACKING him or he has called me six, seven times in a Ing rights b1ll have happened right here Question. Senator, there was a widespread single day. around this table. suspicion-and more than tha1r-that Presi­ Question. Had he given you any kind of But I get letters that say to me, "Do you dent Kennedy would just as soon have seen advance notice about the Baltimore speech? think you're going to get any votes out of you reelected in 1962 and that somehow this Answer. No. Nor did I get a copy until this?" Fancy people' talking to me that way was communicated to you. later in the day. at my age. [He Is 69.) As If that concerns Answer. Well, you know, we were in ses­ Question. Would you have been a llttle me a hoot. I do what I do because I think sion so late that year that I hardly had any happier if you had? It's the right thing to do from the standpoint time to campaign. 'At long last we got this Answer. It wouldn't have made any dif­ of the country. curtain down and I think I had about 3 ference. First, when we were having a bit And to put the moral capsheet on It, weeks to cover a little ground. of a rowdy-dOW last night at the White House, there is a little clause in the Preamble to the Now, in that period he sent that jet out he said, "You didn't read my speech." I Constitution which says we ordain this Gov­ because of this Cuban problem. We had a said, "That's what you say. I not only read ernment In order to promote domestic tran­ meeting each day and as the leadership was your speech, but I llstened to every word and quillity. If anybody thinks It's going to be leaving the White House he said, "Ev, wait, T , st111 stand by what I said. And the way tranquil until we've had a fundamental solu­ want to talk to you." I said, "I want to g­ e British papers and others are giving you tion for some of these problems, on which home if I can. I ha.ve to campaign." He sal. e old business on this billion dollar lure, they've been demonstrating, I can only say "You don't have to campaign. You're in; shows that I wasn't the only one In the world he better get it out of his mind. I said, "Look, mister, it Isn't quite like that who looked under the chair." Question. Do you belleve that in the field in a State like nUnolfl. I can tell you." April 21, 196:) CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- ENATE 7921

freeca.m. He knew the ~ freedom CAnno~ be R~.h' d. That the letary o! £t.. te J;end ...... _ aru1 ~ far othe~. He ld.Jn- a copy 01 thy r lu1Jou to Ita 11 Mlnne6otft. U8ed JlJmMlt with t.be ~u.ae fill h man free­ pn~tor And Congressman tn the U • Con­ cIML Be~' tr.dcU1 101' the egro grese. fwIIIIIr -.. trun ~ Al"bell'l& polling L. L. Duuon', Jr. ~ .. lINCh freaiem tor the lmpo\'er­ Bp~fllce" (1/ the HlnUe 01 P.epr~ entatit e •• ... of 8oetoo, ...... "Ulbt in the terrible A M. KKITIf, ...... _ ~ that the poot' Im{7'tV 80 Pre Ide7lt 01 th.e SenGt ... lnu.uel,. .. eoucht freecJam lar wblt.e Ap;>roved Al'rtl 9. 1P51). ~ wo. The white Amulcu.Ila lIIho KAaL P. ROLVAAO .,.. loo:ked tJl a bor.db&e of tcer and b te Golernor 0/ the SUIte of Minne..'IO,a • sllat tUl1l8 I te 10 batft4 an4 bl'utallty How can one ~ of freedom tor \I. a.n wllo 100IIa at an..- maD a d _ 1'101 a '''!low TAXATION OF PROFESSIONAL COR­ b~ "' a ~eyllUln l\ caricature of n PORATIONS - RESOL{;TlON OF _tare that doN not exist ~p in th THE MINNESOTA LEC:HSLATUR!: GrIlled ~uon 01 ~ pie who ba\e ~d U. .u 1.be1r U_. He ~I'rrltd the to <'11 of Mr. MONDALE. Mr. Pres dent, I a8II: ~ .u.w he p It OIJ to you. un nlmous consent to have l.rinted in ~.aeiel- ca.rrled the torc I oratlon Act nl.Ung to at- being the Tbere no objection, re8Olu­ torney.; n.nd ... ordered to be pcinted in the WherelUl 'the Inter=1 Re , e Service OIl ...,..,... followa: Pebcua.ry 3, 194:>. I_lied amendmlll" to the a-oLtrnO.2 Klnt.ner ~l&tione which would deny to JIIIIII\&...... meuwrlal1&lnc the Congress of "hyslclans and attorn"y, organized undll!' oue . Vatted StaieII to pr~lde f'lt tecllnlcal or ~e oth of the Unneeotll ProtNillonal &lid 1lnaDclal _18t.ancf' tar BOU and water Corp ..:::: 10 JlUWcm acres of cropland In the 89th CoD8rCM d. 177. HE. 691, .and BB. __ IMIIm ~ed by the Imllal corpora·1 lUll! ..., u.cn-n~ of land,,· nlri inolwted 1JJo,rein and would ..... a resul· re­ .. ---17 18IIowtng b7 Indlvldulill Rnd eonl­ quire the lIl;emkl Bowenu Ser lc . Ii. an d NDALI:, IUl d w all M rubers oe or Repl't"6Cnta 1, nnn~ ka. KJ:lT11', Pr(! went ?! th" SM' L. L. I>vDI'CIIlT. Jr., . 7JeakllT 0/ tILe H01~ "/ Bepre enrath ''''., Approved. April 1. 1000. . ~ X,.. 1lL P RoI.V"Au~~. ~I Go !lTnor 0/ th.e Sta'e 01 Mln,,( ,0",. Lla'l~tlvt tttl1fttNCE SERVICE MAY 241965 Q:ongr(ssionQl, Rtcl1r~d United States th oj America PROCEEDINGS AND DEBATES OF THE 89 CONGRESS, FIRST SESSION

Vol. 111 WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1965 No. 92 House of Representatives

The House was not in session today. Its next meeting will be held on Monday, May 24, 1965, at 12 o'clock noon. Senate FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1965

The Senate met at 12 o'clock mendian, nomination, was communicated to the The LEGISLATIVE CLERK. A bill (S. and was called to order by the Acting Senate by Mr. Jones, one of his sec­ 1564) to enforce the 15th amendment to President pro tempore (Mr. METCALF). retaries. the Constitution of the United states. The Chaplain, Rev. Fredenck Brown The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ Harris, DD., offered the following MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE pore. Is there objection? prayer: There being no objection, the Senate Lord of all life, in the white light of A message from the House of Repre­ resumed the consideration of the bill Thy searching, we would pause at mid- sentatives, by Mr. Hackney, one of its (S. 1564) to enforce the 15th amendment . day to examine our inner desires and reading clerks, notified the Senate that, to the Constitution of the United States. motives, that in this temple of a people's pursuant to the provisions of House Res­ CLOTURE MOTION hope and trust we may stand with pure olution 397, 89th Congress, the engrossed Mr. HART. Mr. President, I send to hearts and clean hands. bill (S. 1734) to conserve and protect do­ mestic fishery resources, was herewith the desk a cloture motion filed under rule Help us, we pray, that in these trying XXII and ask that it be read. days we may rise above all that is base return~ to the Senate. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ and small, to toll together in glad and The message announced that the House pore. The cloture motion will be stated. eager harmony for the honor, safety, had passed the bill (S. 435) to extend The legislative clerk read the motion, and welfare of our Nation and of all the the boundaries of the Kaniksu National as follows: peoples of this stncken earth, who will Forest in the State of Idaho, and for CLOTURE MOTION unite in mutual good will, deternl1ned to other purposes, with an amendment, in We, the undersigned Senators, in accord­ open the gates of a new life for all man­ which it requested the concurrence of ance with the provislons of rule XXII of the kind. the Senate. Standing Rules of the Senate, hereby move Grant unto Thy errtng and willful The message also announced that the to bring to a close the deba.te upon the bill children moral control and a ruling pas­ House had passed a bill (H.R. 8122) to (5.1564) to enforce the 15th amendment to sion for world brotherhood, lest the aw­ authorize appropnations to the Atomic the Constitution of the United States. Energy Commission in accordance with (1) MIKE MANSFIELD; (2) Evlml!.Tr M. ful instruments of death and destruc­ DIBKsEN; (3) PHILIP A. HART; (4) tion, now held in fraU human hands, section 261 of the Atomic Energy Act of . THOMAS H. KUCHEL; (5) LEvERETT scourge the planet and melt the fruitful 1954, as amended, and for other purposes, SALTONSTALL; (6) PAT McNAMARA; (7) earth into brittle glass. in which it requested the concurrence of JOHN O. PASTORE; (8) FaANB: E. Moss; Make us alive and alert to the spiritual the Senate. (9) JACOB K. JAVITS; (10) HUGH ScoT!'; venties and values which underlie all the (11) HIRAM L. FaNG; (12) CLAIBoRNE struggle of these epic days, as on the PELL; (13) EDMUND S. MusKJE; (14) HOUSE BILL PLACED ON CALENDAR WAYNE MORSE; (15) JOHN SHERMAN anvU of vast issues there slowly takes COOPER; (16) STEPHEN M . YOUNG; shape the new and better world that is The bUl (H.R. 8122) to authorize ap­ (17) CLIFFORD P. CASE; (18) EUGENE to be when Thy kingdom comes. propriations to the Atomic Energy Com­ J. McCARTHY; (19) .. , _ In the dear Redeemer's name, we ask mission in accordance with section 261 ..!l4.Wii (20) DANIEL BU: PI) it. Amen. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as ~RlIIS; (22) DANIEL K. INOUYE; (23) PAUL H. DoUGLAS; (24) JOSEPH amended, and for other purposes, was s. CLARK; (25) GAYLORD NELSON; (26) THE JOURNAL read twice by its title and placed on the JENNINGS RANDOLPH; (27) ABaAHAM calendar. RmICOFF; (28) FRANK J. LAUSCHE; On request of Mr. HART, and by unani­ (29) THOMAS J. DoDD; (30) VANCE mous consent, the reading of the Journal HARTKE; (31) JOSEPH D. TYDINGS; (32) of the proceedings of Thursday, May 20, VOTING RIGHTS ACT OF 1965 EDWARD V. LelNa; ,(33) Bmcu BAYH; 1965, was dispensed with. (34) EDWARD KENNEDy; (35) LEE MET­ Mr. HART. Mr. President, I ask unan­ CALF; (36) GoRDoN ALLOTI'; (37) 1IARIu­ imous consent that the Chair lay before SON WILLIAMS; (38) QumfTIN Bt7lI- MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT the Senate the unfinished business. DICK. A message in writing from the Presi- The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- Mr. HART subsequently said: Mr. dent of the United States, submitting a pore. The bill will be stated by title. President, on behalf of the junior Senator 1079.1 10798 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD - SENATE May 21, 1965 from New Jersey [Mr. WILLIAKSl and the order to avoid the necessity of having all (See the remarks of Mr. DIRKSEN when he juni9r Sl!hator from North Dakota [Mr. of the amendments presented and read, lntroduced the above blll, which appear un­ der a separate headlng.) ~RDICKl, I ask unanimous consent that would a unanimous-consent request to their signatures may be permitted to be have them considered en bloc as qualified By Mr. SMATHERS: if to S.2006. A bUl to amend the Internal Reve­ added to the cloture motion filed today under the rule, Senators wish call nue Code of 1954 to allow a deduction or under rule x:xn with respect to the vot­ them up, be in order? credit against tax for contributions to Na­ ing rights bill. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ tional and State political committees; to the The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ pore. Such a request would be in order. Committee on Flnance. pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Mr. HART. Mr. President, I ask (See the remarks of Mr. SMATHERS when he Mr. ALLO'IT subsequently said: Mr. unanimous consent that the amend­ Introduced the above bUl, which appear un­ President, I ask unanimous consent that ments, considered en bloc, be regarded der a separate heading.) By Mr. YARBOROUGH: my signature may be added to the cloture as qualified under the rule. S. 2OO7. A blll extending the benefits of motion notwithstanding the fact that it The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ the Emergency OfIicers' Retirement Act of has already been filed. pore. Is there objection? The Chair Ma y 28, 1928, to certain former omcers of The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ hears none, and it is so ordered. the Army; to the Committee on Armed Serv­ pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Mr. HART. Mr. President, I ask Ices. Mr. DIRKSEN. Mr. President, at this unanimous consent that their-- S. 2008. A blll for the relief of Carlysle G. point I should like to propound a parlia­ Mr. ERVIN. Mr. President, I abject. Stark; to the Committee on the Judiciary. mentary inquiry. By Mr. HART: The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ S. 2009. A blll for the relief of Myung Book The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ pore. The objection comes too late. Yun Pak; to the Committee on the Judiciary. pore. The Senator will state it. The Chair asked, "Is there objection?" By Mr. MAGNUSON: Mr. STENNIS. Mr. President, will the paused momentarily, and no objection S. 2010. A bill for the relief of Fun Wat Chair maintain order so that we may was forthcoming. Hoy; to the Committee on the Judiciary. hear? Mr. ERVIN. I did not understand the By Mr. DODD: The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ unanimous-consent request. S.2011. A bill to permit certaln small busi­ pore. The Senator is correct. The Sen­ ness corporations which attempted to make I should like to propound a parlia­ elections under subchapter S of chapter 1 of ate is not in order. The Senate will be mentary inqUiry. the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 to take in order. further action to make such elections ef­ The Senator from Dlinois is recognized. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ pore. The Senator will state it. fective; to the Committee on Finance. Mr. DIRKSEN. Mr. President, I (See the remarks of Mr. DoDD when he In­ should like to query the acting majority Mr. ERVIN. Will amendments here­ troduced the above blll, which appear under leader with respect to the status of after submitted be covered by the unani­ a separate heading.) amendments that have already been sub­ mous-consentorder? By Mr. BmLE: mitted, and also with respect to amend­ The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ S. 2012. A bUl to prohibit certain practices creating artlflclal shortages In the supply of ments that may be submitted hereafter, pore. No. It is the understanding of coins of the United States; to the Committee so far as the cloture motion is concerned. the Chair that the unanimous consent on Banking and Currency. My understanding is that there must be granted qualifies only the amendments (See the remarks of Mr. BmLB when he In­ 62 amendments still pending. They have that have been submitted heretofore, troduced the above blll, which appear under been submitted; they have not actually prior to the filing of the cloture motion. a separate heading.) been presented. My query is as follows: The unanimous-consent order does not By Mr. MAGNUSON (by request) : Under the rule, would the amendments affect any amendments to be filed here­ S. 2013. A blll to amend section 4 of the FIsh and Wlldllfe Act of 1956 to authorize which have been submitted qualify and after and before 1 o'clock on Tuesday. the Secretary of the Interior to make loans could they be called up in the event for the financlng and refinancing of new and cloture were finally imposed? used fishing vessels; to the Committee on The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ LIMITATION ON STATEMENTS DUR­ Commerce. pore. Amendments that have been sub­ ING TRANSACTION OF ROUTINE (See the remarks of Mr. MAGNUSON when he mitted must be read, unless unanimous MORNING BUSINESS Introduced the above blll, which appear un­ der a separate heading.) C9nsent is obtained that they be con­ Mr. HART. Mr. President, I ask sidered as read. By Mr. MAGNUSON: unanimous consent that statements dur­ S.J. Res. 83. Jolnt resolution to authorize Mr. DIRKSEN. So every amendment ing the transaction routine morning the President to Issue a proclamation com­ must be presented and be read if it is to business be limited to 3 minutes. memoratlng the 175th anniversary, on Au­ qualify, if cloture is adopted. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ gust 4, 1965, of the founding of the U.S. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ pore. Without objection, it is so ordered. Coast Guard at Newburyport, Mass.; to the pore. Without unanimous consent, the Committee on Commerce. Senator is correct. (See the remarks of Mr. MAGNUSON when Mr. DIRKSEN. All amendments REPORT OF CIVIL AIR PATROL he Introduced the above Jolnt resolution, which appear under a separate heading.) which thereafter might be submitted The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ would obviously be "out of court." pore laid before the Senate a letter from The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ the National Commander, Civil Air AMENDMENT OF CONSOLIDATED pore. Amendments may be offered from Patrol, Ellington Air Force Base, Tex., now until the vote is taken at 1 o'clock FARMERS HOME ADMINISTRA­ transmitting, pursuant to law, a report TION ACT on Tuesday, but under the same rule the of that organization, for the calendar amendments would have to be read un­ year 1964, which, with an accompanying Mr. DIRKSEN. Mr. President, I send less unanimous consent is granted. report, was referred to the Committee on to the desk, and I do so only on the basis Mr. DIRKSEN. Mr. President, is a Armed Services. of request, a bill to amend the Consoli­ unanimous-consent request in order to dated Farmers Home Administration Act, consider all amendments now pending or in order to provide special loans to cat­ which have been submitted as qualified BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTION 'tIe farmers. under the rule? INTRODUCED The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem- pore. The btll wtll be received and ap­ pore. Yes. - Bills and a Joint resolution were intro­ propriately referred. duced, read the first time, and, by unani­ Mr. DIRKSEN. May I do so at this The bill (S. 2005) to amend the Con­ time? mous consent, the second time, and re­ ferred as follows: solidated Farmers Home Administration The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ Act of 1961 in order to provide 8Pecta.l pore. Such a request is in order. By Mr. DIRKSEN (by request) : loans to cattle farmers, introduced by I S.2005. A blll to amend the Consolidated Mr. DIRKSEN. do not know how Farmers Home Administration Act of 1961 In Mr. DIRKSEN, by request, was received. many of the amendments will be offered. order to provide special loans to cattle farm­ read twice by its title, and referred to That question is for the authors of the ers; to the Committee on Agriculture and the Committee on Agriculture and For­ amendments to determine. However, in Forestry. estry.