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...group of Senators will assert that the Senate's rules expired at adjournment last summer, and that the body is now governed by ordinary parliamentary procedure. They will seek to enact a new set of rules with more effective limitations on debate than the present requirement of 64 Senate votes to halt filibusters. If these Northern Senators can secure a majority to support their argument against the continuity of Senate rules, they can pass whatever new rules they wish without fear of filibuster on their own move...
...political views of Washington attempted to halt the disfranchisement of Negroes by state constitutional amendments that Mississippi had begun in 1890 and that South Carolina was about to enact when Washington delivered his Atlanta address. Shortly thereafter he urged that the same qualifications for voting be required of whites as of Negroes and that, as the ballot box was closed, the school houses should be opened. These sound suggestions were not followed. By 1910 all the Southern states had adopted constitutional provisions or enacted legislation that disfranchised much larger numbers of Negroes than of whites. At the same time more...
...Governor Thomas Stanley of Virginia called a special session of the General Assembly for next month, to enact a program of all-out resistance to integration. Among the things the governor wants: power to withhold funds from any locality "whenever it is determined the public interest, or safety, or welfare so requires," i.e., whenever the schools desegregate. Only eight months ago, Governor Stanley had apparently endorsed the principle that local districts could desegregate if they wished. But since then, Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd had called for "massive resistance" to all integration. Last week Governor Stanley declared flatly: "There...
...political views of Washington attempted to halt the disfranchisement of Negroes by state constitutional amendments that Mississippi had begun in 1890 and that South Carolina was about to enact when Washington delivered his Atlanta address. Shortly thereafter he urged that the same qualifications for voting be required of whites as of Negroes and that, as the ballot box was closed, the school houses should be opened. These sound suggestions were not followed. By 1910 all the Southern states had adopted constitutional provisions or enacted legislation that disfranchised much large numbers of Negroes than of whites. At the same time more...
Menderes suggested that the remedy is to remove the parliamentary immunity of "slanderers," has talked of banning political meetings except immediately before elections. "If the laws are not sufficient, we shall enact new laws," cried Menderes...