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YOUR
CONGRESSMAN
’T REPORTS
1 l!y Rrf>. Burr P. fjarrison
On July 2, Senator Richard B. . Russell of Georgia charged that the President’s civil rights bill was 'cunningly designed to vest in the Attorney General unprecedented power to bring to bear the whole plight of the Federal Government, including the Armed forces if necessary, to force a commingling of" white and Negro children in the State-supported public schools of: the South.” .> That the bill is drawn in such a devious and obscure manner that its full import cannot be grasped bv reading it seems clearly established by the Fact that its principal sponsor, the President, by his own statements, has confessed noncomprehension of its ramifications. ■ Foi; instance, on the burning , question of whether Southern citizens are to be sent to Federal prisons for alleged commission^ of crimes against “civil rights without jury trials find other Con-' stitutional safeguard*—the President now is adamant in his opposition to granting jury trials.^ In May. however, he said he tv as not
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