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...first time since 1932, House Democrats no longer had a numerical majority. With the resignation of New York's Joseph Gavagan, House Democratic strength had sunk to 217. (Because of vacancies and minor party members, Democrats still have a 217-to-208 plurality over Republicans.) But Speaker Sam Rayburn had few illusions about his ability to control his decimated flock. It is an election year, he said, and there will be a lot of talk in Congress. The best he could hope for was that it will be good talk...
...against Gavagan Anti-lynching bill...
...Passed and sent to the Senate the Gavagan anti-lynching bill...
...consequent horror sped the bill through the House but did not weaken Southern Senators, who filibustered the measure to sleep, as they had done its predecessors. Last week Congressman William Meyers Colmer of Pascagoula, Miss, addressed himself to the 1940 bill's chief sponsor-white, Tammany-Irish Joe Gavagan, from Manhattan's black Harlem. Said Mr. Colmer, who as district attorney once saved a Negro killer from a mob: "Of course, this bill will pass the House. . . . And I think I can see again . . . the plumed knight of the black people . . . astride a great white steed. ... an emblem...
...debate's end 123 Democrats voted with eight Republicans against antilynching. For the bill were 109 Democrats, 140 Republicans, two Wisconsin Progressives, one New York Laborite - enough to pass Joe Gavagan's bill along to a sure filibuster in the Senate...