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YOUR
CONGRESSMAN
REPORTS
By Rep. Burr P. Harrison
Washington—When the House of Representatives passed by a substantial majority a bill to counteract'the preverse judicial reasoning of the Supreme Court’s Mallory decision, it was the second time within two weeks that legislative action was taken to repair the court’s damage to the structure of American law. •
Previously, the House had approved a bill to neutralize the Steve Nelson decision, in which the court held that a State could not majee and enforce laws against subversion, merely because the Federal Government had written laws on the subject.
Both bills now are pending in the Senate. The Mallory decision has prompted extended legalistic argument. but its effect is imporant toevery citizen who values the safety of his person and his property. It bears on the ability of his law-enforement agencies to give him adequate protection.
Mallory, the convicted Washington rapist whose release by the Nation’s highest court earned him a footnote in legal history, was arrested as a4* suspect and held 71/2 hours for questioning, during which period he confessed his brutal crime. Direct interrogation occupied less than a third of that time. It should be kept in mind that the voluntary nature of his confession was not at issue....-this was not a case in which a prisoner claimed to have signed* something only to end a beating with fists or a rubber hose. The Supreme Court, nevertheless, declared that
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