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school integration, issue. This raises the question as to whether Southern members of Congress who signed the anti-integration manifesto likewise could expect to find themselves indicted and brought to trial.
But these are among the milder provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1956.
The measure would authorize the Federal Government, through the Attorney General, to take any civil rights case into a federal court, even though it might be active in a State court at the time. And, believe it or not , the person claiming be is being discriminated against would be assigned a Government lawyer, free of charge, to handle his case! *
Now, you might say:
“Why talk about such a bill? Congress never would vote such a thing.”
It wiIT vote such a thing, if given a chance, and the House of Representatives is likely to get its chance soon. Consider these facts:
1. The. prestige of President Eisenhower is behind this bill. In a message to the convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, he stated the bill, “will materially assist the Government in discharging its responcibility to safeguard the Constitutional rights of every citizen”. 2 Despite the respect in which Rep. Howard W. Smith of Virginia is held as chairman of the House Committee on Rules, Northern Democrats and all the Republicans ganged up on him and cleared this bill for floor debate by a vote of 8 to 3. 3.Mr. Eisenhower’s floor leaders in the Hpuse are clamoring for a vote on the bill, and the Northern Democratic leaders are promising it. Parliamentary delays can be used against the measure, but the House limits debate. The bill will pass by a heavy majority whenever it comes to a vote. Sponsors are confident they have the votes in the Senate too; so the only recourse of the minority fighting against this extreme legislation is the unlimited debate permitted in that body.
It is difficult for the citizens of Virgnia to realize the great numerical strength of the proponents of
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