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President Eisenhower has asked Congress to increase the power of the Federal courts and Federal law enforcement agencies to deal with these abuses, and while the House will probably pass such legislation, in the Senate the bills were referred to James O. Eastland's Judiciary Committee. Eastland in turn refered them to the sub-committee on civil rights, but increased that group's membership from three to seven, adding four Senators whose attitude towards such legislation ranges from lukewarm to antagonistic. That sub-committee, in turn, gives every indication of intending to delay action on the bills as long...
...more right to question Shelton than any other "man off the street," heard his testimony solely to "expose him and others to contempt and ridicule." The investigation was a "reprisal" against the Times, which had frequently criticized the segregationist views of Mississippi's Democratic Senator James Eastland, subcommittee chairman. Rauh pointed out that 30 of the 38 witnesses called to testify in closed session were current or onetime employees of the Times, and the subcommittee's Counsel Sourwine testified that he had made no comparable effort to investigate any other paper...
...When the Middle East debate ends, and the Senate turns to other legislation, there should be enough sympathetic votes to force the bill out of the Judiciary Committee, lorded over by Chairman James 0. Eastland of Mississippi. And when some 20 diehard Southern Senators attempt to talk the bill to death on the floor, there should be enough votes even under present cloture rules (64) to cut off the filibuster and bring the measure to a vote. In the House, which passed a civil-rights bill last year, the measure should have far less trouble...
...exclusive interview with the CRIMSON, Clark, who was in Cambridge yesterday to attend meetings of the Board of Overseers, declared that he would also vote against the reelection of Senator James O. Eastland (D-Miss.) to the chairmanship of the important Judiciary Committee, which handles civil rights legislation...
...worried Hawaiians, waiting for the I.L.W.U. to bait the Eastland subcommittee (and probably damage, in the Senate's eyes, territorial hopes for early statehood), the substantial changes suddenly seemed grimly unsubstantial...