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...fell apart into familiar argument when the minors got wind of a big-league deal for network television of Sunday games. Screaming that Sunday is their only payday, that their fans would desert them to watch big-league ball, minor-league leaders sent a hasty telegram to Representative Emanuel Celler. Its gist: please re-open congressional hearings on the majors' baseball monopoly...
...pressure groups, e.g., unions and veterans' organizations, have protested that it will be an added expense on family budgets. Congress could effectively discourage pay TV by setting up rigid standards for performance. Arkansas Democrat Oren Harris said that his House Commerce Committee will investigate, and Brooklyn Democrat Emanuel Celler has authored a bill to make pay TV illegal...
...Double. Acting on his orders, Southern orators zeroed in on the jury-trial gimmick, forced New York's Emanuel Celler and other advocates into an uncomfortable posture of constant defense. Between speeches they clapped friendly arms around Republican shoulders, added private pleas to public petitions in behalf of the amendment. When the Southerners hinted that they could sniff 240 votes in favor of their amendment, Administration forces were flabbergasted and alarmed...
...concern is crystallized in a proposed Constitutional amendment now before a House Judiciary sub-committee, headed by Rep. Emmanuel Celler. The amendment is put forward as an alternative to a joint resolution reported out by Celler's group last summer. The major differences between the two proposals involve the form of the measure--constitutional amendment or statute--and the body to determine the VicePresident's right to declare himself acting President--the Cabinet or the Congress...
...Celler resolution, in providing that the Vice-President must undergo confrontation by Congress before taking office, avoids the major pitfall of the Eisenhower substitute. Congress, as the body most directly responsible to the people, should have this decisive function. With the impeachment power already vested in Congress by the Constitution, the question of reinstating the President, once he is again physically and mentally competent, solves itself. The Administration must realize the defects of its proposal in order to present a united front againt Mr. Rayburn and gain much needed legislation...