Evening star., 1945-06-27
Senator'S Prepare
For Night Session
On FEPC Extension
BorkIey Tells Members
To Expect FiIibuster on
$466, 200 Fund
BY the Associated Press.

S.S~ S"o
BY the Associated Press.
The Senate today waded into
the hot controversy over con-
tinuing the Fair Employment
Practice Committee, amid prep
arations for a night session in
the event a threatened filibuster
develops.
Majority Leader Barley told
colleagues to be prepared to meet
far into the night If ''talkathon"
starts on the proposal to provide
s4e6 200 for FEPC to continue oper-
ations another year.
When reporters asked Senator
Barkley what the prospects were
for the FEPc proposal. the Ken
tuckian laughed and said:
That's the $64 question"
Meanwhile. Senator Bilbo, Demo-
crat, Of Mississippi, . leading FEPC
opponent. claimed enough votes to
block efforts to restore funds to the
agency by means Of a rider to the
pending war agencies appropriation
bill. The rider would require a two
thirds vote.
"Plan to Kill FEPC."
While limiting he might abandon
his plans for f1libuster, Senator
Bilbo told newsmen "a wise general
never discloses his plans beforehand.
My plan is to kill FEPC as dead as
hell" e
FEPC's funds expire Saturday
midnight, the end of the current
fiscal year.
Senator Barkley prepared for the
night session after the Senate clear
ed its decks for the expected FEPC
fight by voting against sharp House.
approved reductions for the Ofice
of War Information. The Senate
approved $39, ,670,215 for Owl, COM
pared with the House figure Of only
$18, ,0O0. 900.
Charges of "an unholy alliance"
to scuttle the FEPC and Legislative
blackjacking" to gain backing for it
were hurled on the House floor yes
terday.
Mrs. Norton Charges Plot.
At one point in the sharp inter-
changes, one member resorted to
the unusual procedure of moving
that another's words be taken
down."
While Representative Keefe, Re-
publican, of Wisconsin, was de-
manding that the House be per-
mitted to vote on the FEPC issue,
Representative Mary Norton of New
Jersey, chairman of the House La
Dor Committee, said there is IAN
unhoiy alliance" between the Ap-
preparations and Rules Committees
to kill the agency.
The Rules Committee has pigeon
holed a bill that would give FEPC,
created by executive order of the
late President Roosevelt, a legisla-
tive birth certificate and make, it
permanent. It also Is holding a
resolution by the Appropriations
Committee, intended to give the
agency $125,000 either for hquida-
ton or operation expenses, pending
(action on the measure giving it
congressional sanction.
Move to Muff7e Keefe.
The House f1areup was climaxed
when Chairman Cannon of the Ap-
preparations Committee accuse
Representative Keefe of trying to
mislead the country" as to the posi-
ton of the Appropriations Commit-
tee on providing money for FEPC.
Mr.. Keefe moved that Mr.. Can
mons words be taken down, a proce-
dure in which-if the presiding offi-
Ger found the words in violation of
House rules-Mr. Cannon would
have been denied a right to utter a
word in the House for the remain-
der of the day.
Mr.. Cannon Withdrew his accusa-
ton, and the tiff ended.
Earlier, Representative Slaughter, !,
Democrat, of Missouri, member Of
the Rules Committee, declared that
a Government official had used ''leg-
islative blackjacking" to gain back
ing for the FEPC legislation. He
said Fowler Harper, Interior De-
partment solicitor, urged FEPCI
friends to put the heat on Con-
|gress."