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...lost again. Later that night, the Senate debated and defeated, 74 to 19, Kentucky Republican John Sherman Cooper's plan to require juries except in cases where local and state officials are defendants. That left two more jury amendments. One, sponsored jointly by Mansfield and Republican Leader Everett Dirksen, would limit jury trials to violations that carried penalties of more than 30 days in jail and $300 fines. The other, offered by Georgia Democrat Herman Talmadge, would require juries in all criminal contempt suits, whatever law they violated. Votes on both were postponed to this week. The Senate resumed...
...response to the Talmadge amendment, Senate leaders Mansfield and Dirksen have prepared a substitute. Their measure reportedly will allow the judge to grant or deny jury trial on criminal contempt charges; however, a person convicted without a jury could not be fined more than $300 or imprisoned for more than 30 days...
...Manfield-Dirksen amendment does weaken the enforcement mechanism of the bill, but it should satisfy Senators who felt the House bill, with its denial of jury trial, might be unconstitutional...
...Dirksen has given warning that future Republican amendments will not be so mild. While most of his proposed amendments to the fair employment title either improve or at least do not detract from the House bill, one may spark a difficult struggle. Sen. Dirksen intends to ask that the burden of prosecuting violations under the title be put on individuals and state agencies rather than on the Federal government. A complaint would have to be made first to the state agency, which would be allowed 90 days to act. Only then could the proposed Federal Commission be brought into...
...other Dirksen amendments published thus far, and the Saltonstall and Mansfield-Dirksen proposals, seem safe to incorporate into the Bill. However, Sen. Humphrey should accept them only if he can buy cloture votes with their passage. A summer-long of "extended debate" would be disastrous...