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Last week the U.S. Senate plunged into a debate on the Bricker amendment. Soon over their heads and caught in the crosscurrents of Supreme Court decisions such as Missouri v. Holland and U.S. v. Pink, the Senators tried to thrash their way to familiar ground. For many, this effort led toward the barnyard...
...seemed, high time to buckle down to serious work, and a vote was taken on a minor amendment to the Bricker resolution. The result, 62 for and 20 against, was significant only in disclosing a hard core of at least 20 Senators who would stand firm against any change along lines proposed by Bricker & Co., regardless of any compromises or other kernels of corn which might be dropped in front of them. Many of the 62 who voted yes this week said that they would vote no if the original amendment or anything like it came before the Senate...
...Ohio's Republican Senator John Bricker, badly in need of some face-saving after moving far from his original position, wanted to make it appear that the Administration was also being forced into a compromise. He offered to accept a modified version of the George amendment on condition that President Eisenhower also publicly endorse...
...told his press conference (see above) that he would not compromise by one word with any amendment which alters the constitutional balance of the three branches of Government. Besides, said Ike, the whole question is very intricate, and there should be no hurry. The Eisenhower stand caused Bricker to backpedal toward his starting point. He introduced a reworded version of his famed "which" clause. Cried Bricker: "I will never surrender on the basic principles involved...
...Missouri's Democratic Senator Thomas C. Hennings Jr., spokesman for an anti-Bricker group which never had an idea of compromise, recognized the George substitute as the chief threat. He pointed to George's key provision, which would make international executive agreements effective as U.S. internal lawonly when approved by both branches of Congress. If this right were given to the House, said Hennings, the traditional power of the South to block a two-thirds Senate vote would be diluted. Hennings was fully aware of George's main source of support: the Senate's Southern bloc...