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WASHINGTON:—In the returns which are1 coming in from my recent mailing to voters of a questionnaire on issues bebfore Congress, I have noted frequent expressions of doubt that the socalled civil rights legislation contains provisions as stated in my questions. I can understand that there would be astonishment at the drastic provisions of the legislation. In the question on the civil rights bill, however, as in the others others of the questionnaire, I tried for phrasing which, within the limitations of brevity, presented the issues in the framework of the proposals actually before Congress.
The civil rights question was as follows:
“For the purpose of protecting the civil rights of citizens from discrimination on account .of race or rel;eion. a bill in Congress proposas, among other things:
“1. That the President appoint a commission with power to subpoena persons and records to investigate claims of discrimination.
"2. That the Attorney General might bring law suits, with lawlers and court expenses paid by the taxpayers, to recover money for neopie who claim their civil rights have been violated.
“3. That citizens, under Federal court injunction, might be sentenced to prison without jury trial for violating , or being about to violate, another’s civil rights.
“Do vou favor this bill ?”
The bill representing President tisenhqwer’s civil rights program now is the subject of Congressional hearings. In regard to part one of *ny question, we find that it sets up a Federal commission, gives it
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