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...keep score. Republican Minority Leader Charles Halleck sat quietly relaxed; Ohio's William McCulloch, the G.O.P. floor manager for the bill, dawdled with his yellow pencil; the South's floor manager, Louisiana's Edwin Willis, scribbled on a note pad; New York's Emanuel Celler, the Democrats' floor manager, even left the chamber during the count. At length, Speaker Sam Rayburn spoke the finish: "On this vote, the yeas are 311, the nays...
...Celler-McCulloch civil rights bill was substantially the one that had been recommended by the Administration. In five key sections it provides that: On petition of disenfranchised citizens, U.S. district courts shall appoint voting referees (TIME, March 14), who will see to it that Negroes qualified under state laws get to cast a vote in federal, state and local elections...
...YORK, Oct. 15--Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, today criticized National and American League owners in their attitude toward a third major baseball league and said he planned to push anti-trust legislation in the next session of Congress...
...Celler said, "This new Continental League is going to die aborning unless they get some help...
...after the 1957 bill was enacted, we began working for Part III [which would have empowered the Attorney General to file suits in support of the Supreme Court's desegregation decisions], and we have never stopped working. The pending Douglas-Javits-Celler bill, which contains not only Part III of the 1957 bill, but also wise and generous assistance to Southern communities seeking to integrate their school systems, has the backing of the civil rights organizations...