October 10, 1966 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD- SENATE 2'5869 rights leaders-young firebrands like Stokely it, is that if Negroes cannot enjoy part of to older, wiser heads and to learn from the Carmichael, of the Student Nonviolent that dream they are going to burn the coun­ textbook of history. Goodwill, progress and Coordinating Committee. try down." Carmichael said that, by the understanding have now been placed in jeop­ , you will recall, was way, in an interview in the National Guard­ ardy because a small number of extremists recently arrested in for allegedly in­ ian, the leading Marxist journal in this and militants are accepting the help and as­ c!ting a riot involving one thousand persons country. sistance of anybody, including Communists, in this city known far and wide for its racial At a news conference here in Washing­ and are advocating any means, including moderation, in which riots the mayor, who ton, D.C., Stokely Carmichael was asked if violence. is a champion of Negro rights, was knocked "" was based on 'non-violence. It is to prevent this tragedy, it is to bring to the ground while attempting to calm the He answered the question with a question. about the full proof about extremists and crowd. The police chief of Atlanta stated, "Can you have power without violence?" subversives in civil rights, it is to prevent and I think many would agree with him, that And at CORE's annual convention this past more and more riots and violence that I will the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Com­ summer, its new head, Floyd McKissick, continue to press for a Congressional investi­ mittee ought now to be called the "Non­ stated: "Non-violence in this country may be gation of Communist and extremist influence student Violence Committee." And this, of Christian but it is un-American." I ask you, in the in America. course, is under the influence of its new can anything be more warped or distorted Nor just for the sake of a movement but for leader, Stokely Carmichael, or Floyd Mc­ than to say that non-violence is rm-Amer­ the good of the Nation. Kissick of the Congress of Racial Equality. ican? Can anything be more calculated to Dean MANION. Thank you Congressman I wonder just how many Negroes are incite and encourage violence? JoHN H. BucHANAN, of Alabama. I think we listening to Carmichael? He has put the Dean MANION. I can't imagine a more in­ should have this Congressional investigation matter of "black power" very simply for his fiammatory statement than the one you that you propose. It just might disclose followers: "Negroes certainly see that this is just quoted. that we are fighting our anti-Communist war the richest country in the world and they Congressman BUCHANAN. What a tragedy on two bloody and destructive fronts; one in want to share in the wealth, and the feel­ it would be if millions of good, law-abiding Viet Nam, the other in the streets of our big ing, whether or not the white press likes people should be hurt by a willful band of cities. If this is so, the American people this, whether or not the white Liberals like young extremists who are unwilling to listen had better know it now-before it's too late!

Lest we forget that Thou art ever . The Chief Clerk proceeded to call the SENATE judge and sovereign over us, make us roll. aware of Thy presence here today. Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, I ask SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1966 Make our hearts sensitive to Thy chil­ unanimous consent that the order for The Senate met at 9 o'clock a.m., and dren's needs, lest we forget the grea,t the quorum call be rescinded. was called to order by Hon. HARRY F. host trembling in the weakness of hunger The VICE PRESIDENT. Without ob­ BYRD, JR., a Senator from the State of and disease; lest we forget the ever­ jection, it is so brdered. Virginia. swelling numbers of Thy children be­ Mr. MORSE. Mr. President, I yield reaved, wounded, impoverished, and myself 5 minutes. numbed by fear in a brutal and seem­ Mr. President, I wish to say to the Sen­ DESIGNATION OF ACTING PRESI­ ingly endless war; lest we forget the ate that I think we all know this issue DENT PRO TEMPORE millions in other lands enslaved by tyr­ well. It is a simple issue: whether or anny and the thousands hauntingly near not we are willing to vate in the Senate, The assistant legislative clerk read the on whom the full light of liberty and self­ following letter: as we have voted six times in the past, to U.S. SENATE, government has not dawned. give more than 800,000 people in the Dis­ PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE, In the pressures and irritations of the trict of Columbia the right of self-gov­ Washington, D.C., October 8, 1966. day, and in the accomplishment of small ernment, a right that has been denied To the Senate: goods, 0 God, be with us yet, lest we for­ them. This denial is a great blot on this Being temporarily absent from the Senate, get to hold Thee in a we and to perform country, in that we sit here, as a Con­ I appoint Hon. HARRY F. BYRD, JR., a Senator yet nobler deeds proportionate to Thy gress, with the power to emancipate these from the State of Virginia, to perform the children's appalling need and to Thy people, in the sense that we can give duties of the Chair during my absence. sublime mercy. Amen. CARL HAYDEN, them the right to vote. This right is long President pro tempore. overdue. THE JOURNAL Mr. President, my remarks in connec­ Mr. BYRD of Virginia thereupon took tion with the cloture petition before the the chair as Acting President pro tem­ On request of Mr. MANSFIELD, and by Senate will be very brief. In fact, my re­ pore. unanimous consent, the reading of the marks were really written for me by the The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tem­ Journal of the ·proceedings of Friday, editors of the Washington Post-I am pore. Under the previous order, the October 7, and Saturday, October 8, 1966, sure unwittingly on their part. They Senate is now adjourned. was dispensed with. have written an editorial this morning which, in my judgment, cannot be im­ proved upon by any use of the King's ADJOURNMENT TO MONDAY HIGHER EDUCATION AMEND­ English by any proponent of home rule. Thereupon