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...maneuver was necessary to bring the poll-tax amendment to a Senate vote; the actual bill was tied up in the Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's James O. Eastland. Holland's tactics stirred the brief wrath of Georgia's Richard Russell, leader of the fight against the amendment. Cried Russell: "We are adopting an absurd, farfetched, irrational, unreasonable and unconstitutional method to get this amendment." Then Russell subsided and Holland's motion carried...
...important, since tax is not a significant bar to voting outside of Mississippi." The amendment has been attached to a bill establishing an Alexander Hamilton monument in New York so that it can not be sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee, headed by Sen. James O. Eastland (D-Miss...
...measure was introduced by Senate majority leader Mike Mansfield (D-Okla.) on Jan. 30 and was immediately referred to the Judiclary Committee, chaired by Sen. James O. Eastland (D-Miss.). Mansfield promised that if the Committee did not act on the bill by the end of May, he would bring it to the floor as a rider to other legislation...
...education the only required proof of a voter's literacy, now backed by Minority Leader Everett Dirksen as well, faced its first legislative test-and failed. The backers of the bill hoped to avoid sending their measure to the Judiciary Committee, which, under Mississippi's Senator James Eastland, has been a graveyard for civil rights legislation. They hoped instead to have it referred to Mansfield's Senate Rules Committee. But Vice President Lyndon Johnson, advised by the Senate parliamentarian, ruled that it had to go to Judiciary. The setback will be only temporary, Mansfield promised...
Tshombe had his friends in the U.S. Congress as well. One vocal group of U.S. supporters formed a Committee for Aid to Katanga Freedom Fighters; its roster ranged from respectable conservatives to right-wing ultras and included such Southern states' righters as Racist Senator James Eastland of Mississippi. They reasoned that Tshombe is one of the few African leaders who are proven anti-Communists and friendly to the white man. Katanga, continued the argument, has a right to self-determination if it prefers independence from the central government, particularly since it is by far the stablest of all Congolese...