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Thus, though Mississippi now has 117,500 new Negro voters, many of them regard the F.D.P. as too radical, and only two of its candidates are given any chance of election. The strongest challengers are Lawrence Guyot, 26, F.D.P. Mississippi chairman, who filed as an opponent against Congressman William Colmer, 76, and the Rev. Edwin King, 30, a white chaplain at predominantly Negro Tougaloo College, who is taking on Representative John Bell Williams...
...anecdotal descriptions of lobbies, press, and House personnel, are primarily valuable for random inside information and for Bolling's priceless characterizations: William Colmer's political position "is perhaps slightly to the left of Ivan the Terrible"; Adam Clayton Powell's attention span "has been variously estimated as ranging between forty seconds to two minutes"; the Rule's Committee is "Howard Worth Smith's efficiently run cemetery" and "that contemporary version of a French Bourban soirees...
Interestingly, Rayburn emerges from these reminiscences as a good tabulator of votes, but a fairly ineffective leader. On the fight to make the Rules Committee more responsive to the leadership, for example, Rayburn declined the best method for seemingly insubstantial reasons. A purge of Colmer from the Rules Committee for not supporting the party ticket in 1960 could have been quite easily accomplished in party caucus. Rayburn chose instead to enlarge the Committee, a move which required vote of the full House--including Republicans--and therefore brought on a long, bitter fight, apparently because of sentiment (purges aren't nice...
...Judiciary Committee, which wrote the original version of the bill. Celler read the bill section by section while Smith doodled fitfully. When Celler began enumerating the Attorney General's powers, Smith scribbled cryptically on his note pad: "Atty. Gen. -Czar." When Celler had finished, Mississippi's William Colmer blew up. "If it's not politics," he cried, "then what is behind all this rape of the constitutional and legislative processes? God pity this young republic...
Five Republicans, along with Rep. William Colmer (D-Miss.) and Rep. Howard W. Smith (D-Va.), chairman of the committee, are known to oppose the YCC bill. If Elliott votes with them, the proposal will be defeated by an 8-7 margin...