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After seven weeks on courtly dawdling, the Senate appears ready to work seriously on the Civil Rights bill. Sen. Hubert Humphrey indicated the long pause was over when he changed his description of the Southern oratory from extended debate to filibuster. But it was a Southerner, Sen. Herman Talmadge, who ended the preliminaries with amendments designed to guarantee jury trials for all cases of criminal contempt arising from the bill...
Another amendment, offered by Sen. Leverett Saltonstall, also seems to offer no serious threat to the House bill. Sen. Saltonstall proposes to give more opportunity for voluntary compliance with the provisions of the public accommodations title before the Attorney General files suit on complaints. The measure sets a 90-day waiting period between the time the complaint is filed and a suit can be brought. The House bill only requests a "reasonable" period of time...
...Sen. Dirksen has given warning that future Republican amendments will not be so mild. While most of his proposed amendments to the fair employment title either improve or at least do not detract from the House bill, one may spark a difficult struggle. Sen. Dirksen intends to ask that the burden of prosecuting violations under the title be put on individuals and state agencies rather than on the Federal government. A complaint would have to be made first to the state agency, which would be allowed 90 days to act. Only then could the proposed Federal Commission be brought into...
...minute formal meeting yesterday morning, the Committee heard Mrs. Bunting praised by Sen. Leverett Saltonstall '14 (R-Mass.), Glen T. Seaborg, chairman of the AEC, and Sen. John R. Pastore (D.R.I.), chairman of the Joint Committee...
...telephone interview yesterday. Hughes said his decision not to run was based on the prestige Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '64 (D-Mass) would enjoy as an incumbent Senator. "He's no longer the brash young man he seemed to be in 1962, but a decent Fair Deal incumbent," he said...