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...said that, as President, "he could and would" use his influence to change the Senate's rules so that a majority (instead of two-thirds) of the membership could shut off a filibuster-and thus make possible passage of an FEPC law. Previously, he had expressed "doubts" that a President should interfere with Senate rules; while he had not opposed FEPC, he had taken the general position that the states should be encouraged to tackle the problem (as he had done in Illinois...
...FEPC. 15. John Elliott Rankin, U.S. Repre sentative from Mississippi for 32 years...
Carrington scoffed at Schroeder's remarks about "Republican achievement" in the civil rights field. He said New York's Republican Ives-Quinn bill was "typical" of Republican efforts, because Republican legislatures had stified FEPC bills in California, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, and Michigan...
...Young Republican president pointed to repeated "grandiose promises" of federal FEPC, anti-poll tax, and anti-lynching laws and charged, "In all but one case since 1932, if proportionately as many Democrats as Republicans in both Houses had voted for the various civil rights proposals, those bills would be law today...
Speaking of G.O.P. actions, Schroeder said that 11 states now have FEPC machinery. The model for these state laws, he said, is the ives-Quinn Act, "an example of Republican achievement...