Jackson advocate. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1939-current, 1946-01-12
So|ons Studying
Truman Friday
Night Address
Reactions Point
To Hard Fight
In Congress
For NNPA News Seryice)


WASHINGTON, D. c. - Presi-
dent Truman's chastisement OF
Congress last Thursday night in
radio address for Sinking action on
his program, including his recon-
mendation of a permanent Fair
Employment Practice Commission.
was being pondered here as men,
berS of Congress returned from a
holiday recess to tilt again over
FEPC legislation.
Coming in q congressional cleo
ton year, Democrats WINGED from
his caStigation for "diStresSingly
slow progress on his Legislative
proposals to meet the problems
which lie ahead"
Republicans, on the other hand,
generally pointed out that the
Democrats control both the house
nd Senate and all committees ana
that responsibility lies with them
lack Of record Of achievement
and progress" OH domestic prob
lens.
Mr.. Truman blamed small
handful of Congressman IN the
Rules Committee of the House" for
having prevented the Norton bill
for the creation of a permanent
! air Employment Practice Com
mittee from reaching a vote by
the Congress-"
similar measure, on Tie oeii-
o+a calendar. is scheduled 10 NC
he'd I'D soon after the reconVell-
ING of Congress Southern l'eiiio
Gratis have threatened a tllous'ei
&c soon as the motion is mace III
the senate to debate the bill:
whether there is more MI. AFu-
man can do toward getting pefilia-
nent FEPC legislation through 1ne
Congress is depatable. some ho,
ministration spokesman poliiCeu
ont as the President himself salo'
he has not been able to get through
Congress all of his program emprac-
| mo "no11st" detectives vital to post
war prosperity and to the pre'eii-
ton of initiation or deflatlcn'
! President Truman revealed tnaV
he is fully aware of the crux Oh olie
/ congressional situation PoinCllg
ont that all bills are referred 10
the appropriate committees OF Con
eress. he said, unless the COMMIT
tees act to report the bills, the mem
hers of the Congress never get
I chance to vote for or against them.
II is usually not even the COM
mittees but a bare majority Oh
committee who prevent a vote by
the whole Congress on these meas
ures of majority policy" Mr.. 1ru-
man said.
VARYING REACTIONS
Reaction by members OF Con-
Dress to the Presidents speech
showed that many Of them were as
recalcitrant as ever. Commenting
at his home in New Orleans on the
Presidents address. Senator Allen
J. Ellender, Democrat, OF LoulSl-
ana, expressed strong opposition 10
the Presidents request for per-
manent FEPC.
In a radio sreech delivered last
Friday night from Cincinnati, Sen
ator Robert A. Taft, Republican, OF
Ohio, charged that Mr.. Truman nae
made his attack mot on Congress,
but on the Democratic party
He said Mr. Humans economic
recommendations with the single
exception of his fact finding plan
for labor disputes, w.fe taken from
the program of the Congress of In
dutrial Organizations Political Ac-
ton Committee, and that half OF
the Democrats and most of the Re
publicans in Congress disagree with
that course.
Senator Taft's speech, in which
he analysed and rejected, point by
point most of the legislative pro-
posals listed by the President as
embodying his must" detectives,
was, in effect, a Republican party
answer to Mr. Truman.
Senator Wayne Morse, Republi-
can, of Oregon, saw in Mr.. Iru-
mans address "a sad confession OF
the failure of the preponderant
Democratic majority in Congress
under his president Trumans) in
effectual leadership"