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...prospective G.O.P. gain by granting statehood to Alaska (pop. 182,000), which would be expected to elect Democrats. Some Southern Democrats don't want Hawaii admitted at all, because of Hawaiian disregard for the color line. Last week three Republicans (Nevada's Malone, North Dakota's Langer and Maryland's Butler) joined Democrats in a 46-43 vote to package the two statehood proposals. Senate Majority Leader William Knowland, who had failed to hold his Republican colleagues together for the Eisenhower Administration's Hawaii bill, furrowed his brow deeper than ever and said he would...
While California's Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel praised the "unsullied" reputation of Chief Justice Earl Warren, some 40 Senators this week sat quietly in their places, then confirmed Warren by voice vote. Among those on the floor was North Dakota's occasionally Republican Senator William Langer who, as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, had held up Warren's confirmation for seven weeks−not necessarily out of malice, but merely to try to force the Administration to give him more patronage in North Dakota...
...this week's floor action, Langer apparently voted to confirm Warren. There was no audible dissent−and Bill Langer is nothing if not audible...
...Langer's attitude in the Warren case is an extension of the patronage fight. Last week, presiding over his subcommittee, he cackled with glee and chomped his cigars (without removing their Cellophane wrappings). Enraged Republicans made no dent on Langer...
...Langer, determined to use his nuisance leverage to win his patronage fight, went right on with a course of action that smears the Chief Justice of the U.S. and makes the nation a laughing stock...