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...Tinkham's Amendment
Sirs: Your comment on Congress with reference to passage through the House of Representatives of the census-apportionment bill (June 17) contained the statement: "The Tinkham amendment was probably as illegal as the Hoch." I am astonished to find such a palpable misstatement in your impartial and usually well-informed and ably edited columns. Whatever else my amendment might be and whatever else might be said about it-and plenty has been said-surely there is no basis for characterizing it as illegal. In fact, without my amendment the apportionment bill is not constitutional. Section 1 of the 14th amendment...
TIME, elliptic, meant that there is as yet no basis in law for the application of the Tinkham Amendment, which aimed to exclude from the Reapportionment count inhabitants of states whose franchise has been denied or abridged (i. e., Negroes in Southern states). No Southern state yet stands legally convicted of such denial or abridgement...
Congressman Tinkham charged that: the Board put up its Methodist Building close to "strategic" the position Capitol for because lobbying; of it has its attempted to "dictate and control legislation by personal agency"; it has sought to influence judicial appointments; it has participated in political campaigns without filing expense accounts under the Corrupt Practices...
...Cheered mentions of Senators Heflin, Simmons, Blease; denounced Congressman Tinkham...