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Non-Compromising FEPC Bill to Be
Brought to the Senate
By Alice A. Dunnigan
WASHINGTON. (ANP). Sen
ate Democratic Leader Scott M.
Lucas of Illinois has scheduled
the administration’s non-compro
mising FEPC bill to be brought
to the senate for action about
March 10, according to a recent
announcement
Senate leaders hope to “put
teeth" in the toothless FEPC
measure which passed the house
last week by pushing the strong
est bill possible through the sen
ate. If the McGrath bill (which
is a companion to the defeated
Powell bill) goes through the
senate it will have to go to a
a compromise between the pro
visions of the two bills will have
to be reached.
Sen. Hubert Humphrey (d.,
Minn.) who helped force the
compulsory FEPC plank into the
democratic platform thinks that
the house passed voluntary bill
is at least a beginning and hopes
the senate will be able to im
prove it.
Some other senators think the
McConnell bill will have a better
chance of invoking senate cloture
against a southern anti-FEPC
filibuster, and in getting through
the senate. In rechecking the
republican support for the forth
coming motion to shut off de
bate, G.O.P. leaders discovered
that their party was mainly in
favor of the voluntary FEPC bill
and expressed reluctancy to
pledge their cloture votes to call
ud the administration’s compul
sory bill.
A spokesman for the republi
can party estimated ytat 35 or 40
republican senators would vole
for the cloture “if they think
there is a fair chance to substi
tute the voluntary bill once the
filibuster is broken.” Under the
so-called “Wherry cloture rule”
aodpted in the last session. 64
votes are necessary to cut off
debate. If the republicans can
supply 35 cloture votes, only 29
will be necessary from the demo
cratic ranks to kill the filibuster
which the southerners are al
ready planning
Senator Humphrey said the re
publicans will have a lot of ex
plaining to do in the next cam
paign if they force anything less
than the McGrath bill. He said
that in case the Taft voluntary
bill come out of the senate, he is
prepared to offer an amendment
requiring the proposed five-man
FEPC commission to report back
to congress within two years
time, recommendations for “the
next legislative steps.” The Tafi
bill is a companion bill to the
McConnell bill which was passed
by the house last week.
Every member of the senate
received a round robin lettei
last Wednesday signed by nine
individuals who represented na
tional organizations on the
round-the-world Town Meeting
of the Air seminary, appealing
to them to refrain from obstruc
tionism and undignified discus
sion aimed to prevent a fair dis
cussion and vote on the civil
rights measures. “We appeal to
you to think of this issue of hu
man rights as an American and
from NAACP; Alfred A. Albert
not a politically partisan one.”
The letter was signed by Wal
ter White, secretary on leave
of the American Civil Liberties
union; Irving Brown, European
representative of the A. F. of L.;
Edith S. Sampson of the Na
tional Council of Negro Women;
George W Welsh of the U. S.
Conference of Mayors; Saaja
Stokowski; Dr. Clarence Decker;
Robert S. Byfield, and Robert
Hansen.
Roy Wilkins, acting secretary
of the NAACP referred to the
House passed FEPC measure as
an “emasculated bill, which is
little more than a declaration of
principles.” The task is now to
carry the fight to the Senate, he
said, “in an uncompromising ef
fort to strengthen the toothless
and inadequate McConnell bill.”
Among those who voted in the
House for the McConnell bill as
a substitute for the Powell bill
wrere 115 Democrats, one Demo
cratic-Liberal, and 124 Republi
cans. Those voting against the
McConnell substitute with the
hope of eventually getting a
stronger bill through, included 134
Democrats, 42 Republicans and
one American Laborite.
“The best proof that the
substitute is weak and ineffec
tive,” declared Wilkins,” is the
fact that southern Democrats went
down the line for it with even
Representative Rankins voting for
it in the initial test.”
Elmer Henderson, director of
the American Council on Human
Rights, said his organization
would “devote its resources to
breaking the inevitable filibuster
and passing an FEPC bill with
enforcement powers.”
Henderson denounced the scut
tling of the Powell bill in the
House by the coalition of South
ern Democrats and Northern Re
publicans. What passed the House,
he said was “merely a pious reso
lution. Even its piety was tar
nished by numerous frivolous and
insincere amendments tached on
to it by the coalition . . .
‘‘The whole exhibition, particu
larly the dilatory maneuvers of
the southerners, was a travesty
of parliamentary democracy and,
if not quickly repaired, may have
the tragic consequence of lessen
ing the faith of many people, at
home and abroad, in our system
of government,” declared the
ACHR director.
Immediately after the passage
of the weak-kneed FEPC bill by
the House last week. President
Truman renewed his stand for
the original compulsory bill. Al
h VAMES C. OLSON, SufitrinUnJtml
•TATB ■IBTOBICAL SOCI8TT
With Nebraska quietly passing
its 83rd birthday March 1st. it
is a little difficult to realize the
extent of the controversy which
raged around admission of the
state into ihe Union in 1867. That
controversy was national as well
as local.
Nationally, the struggle over
Nebraska’s admission was part of
the postwar conflict between
President Andrew Johnson and
the radicals. The radicals, who
controlled congress, insisted that
Nebraska include no restrictions
on voting because of color, in its
constitution. Johnson, who op
posed typing up the admission
of a state in this fashion, had yet
another reason for opposing Ne
braska’s entry—Nebraska’s two
republican senators (already
elected) would be sure to throw
their weight against him in the
struggles that were to follow'.
Locally, the population was split along
lines of the national controversy, with
tne democrats opposing admission and
the republicans favoring it. In addition,
local republicans pointed to the ad
vantages that would accrue from state
hood while local democrats argued that
a state government would he too expen
sive.
Reaction of Nebraskans to admission
Is reflected in the editorial columns of
the .sevvspapers of that clay.
The Nebraska Herald, a repub
lican paper published at Platts
mouth, heralded news that the
act of admisffon had been passed
over President Johnson's veto
with the following: “UP WITH
THE FLAG—FIRE THE BIG
GUN—NEBRASKA A STATE!—
Nebraska is no longer a territory,
but assumes, from this day hence
forth, the proud position of a
state in the great American
Union; not only a state, but a
FREE state, recognizing the rights
of all men, whether white or
black . .
J. Sterling Morton’s ardently
democratic Nebraska City News
greeted the announcement with
sarcasm: “According to the prom
ises made to her inhabitants, they
will now enter upon a career of
though he had not read the vol
untary House version at the time
of his press conference last Thurs
day a few hours after the passage
of the bill, he said he had made
his FEPC position perfectly plain
in his message to Congress.
Sen. Owen Brewster (r., Me.)
said if the voluntary bill came to
the senate his party would sup
port cloture.
Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry, G.O.P.
leader from Nebraska said he
would vote for cloture on FEPC
and would favor voluntary legis
lation, but would oppose “controls
upon millions of Americans such
as would prevail under the pro
posed compulsory FEPC legisla
tion.
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An International F r i e ndahip
dinner was given last week un
der the joint sponaorstiip of the
Religious Welfare Council, the
Nebraska University Council of
World. Affairs, and the Cosmo
politan club. Foreign students
representing more than 40 coun
tries. were guests of American
students. The meal featured
Ukrainian dishes which were
prepared by Ukranian cooks.
Dr. G. W. Rosenlof presided
over the pix>gram for the eve
ning. Included in the program
were vocalists from Latvia and
Norway, a Persian instrumen
talist, and a group of Latin
American students who provided
South-American music.
Following the program was a
! style show in which students
modeled costumes of different
countries.
The University Theater is
going to present the play, “Home
of The Brave” at the Nebraska
Theater Monday, March 13th.
The play treats the adjustments
of a Jewish soldier. In the pop
ular movie, the main character
is a Negro.
unexampled prosperity. Taxes
will be low’. The prices of labor
will be high. Flush times w’ill
drive out lean times, wealth will
be the rule and poverty the ex
ception among out people. And
the total expense of this bene
ficient change, will not exceed,
remember, according to the elo
quent advocates of statehood who
perambulated Nebraska and
harangued her people during the
pleasant months of May and
June 1866, the inconsiderable sum
of twelve thousand dollars each
year.”
The Nebraska Advertiser, pub
lished at Brow’nville, hailed word
of statehood as “glorious news,”
and predicted: “Nebraska ..will
grow' in importance and strength
henceforth and forever.”
* * *■ *1 *
Dr Jan O. M. Broek, head of
the geography department at
the University of Minnesota, ad
dressed a university convocation
last week. He discussed some
of the problems of Asiatic coun
tries, and the importance of
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By Harry LrveKr
HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AND.
By rushing the shooting of the
| film, the Jewell company ended
production of the Jackie Robin
son movie biography last week
so Jackie could rush down to
Verb Beach, Fla., in time for the
opening of spring training March
1. It will be released under the
Eagle-Lion banner. Jackie's early
life was filmed at Pasadena where
he grew up, then at Anaheim and
Burbank.
Baseball games were filmed in
the Hollywood baseball park,
home of the Hollywood stars of
the Pacific Coast league, a farm
connection of the Brooklyn Dodg
ers.
Ruby Dee, who gained promi
nence for her work in "No Way
Out," plays the role of the base
ball star's wife. Louise Beavers
is cast in the sympathetic role
of his mother. Among others
featured in the picture were:
Joel Fluellyn, Marjorie Elliott,
Bill Walker, Bernard Hamilton,
Roy Glenn, Mildred Boyd, Doris
Ake, Lens Benjamin, and Elmer
Fain.
The picture appears to follow
his life very closely. Among
others featured were Kenney
Washington. Jay Loft Lynn,
Jimmie Payne, Jack Williams and
Minor Watson as Branch Ritchey.
their relations with the L'nited
States. Dr. Broek presented a
few possible means by which
our relations with these coun
tries could be bettered.
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