St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-08-09

sought unanimous consent TO take
up the anti-poll tax bill. At the
time, Senator Warren G. Magnus-
son, Democrat of Washington, was
presiding. Senator William LANCER,
Republican Of North Dakota, had
the floor. Senator Morse was the
only other Senator in the cham
Der. All three are pro FEPC.
Asking Senator LANCER TO yield,
Senator Morse requested unanimous
consent for the Senate to take up
the FEPC bill. Democratic Seere-
tary FELTON, NJ. johnson sprinted for
the cloakroom, found Senator Err
nest W. Mcfarland, Democrat, Of
Arizona, and told him what was
up. Mcfarland rushed into the
chamber and suggested the absence
of a quorum and then objected to
Morse's request for unanimous con-
sent to take up the anti-poll tax
bill.
More recently, an hour or two
before the hour agreed upon unani-
mously by the Senate TO vote on
the bill quitclaiminp TO the states
all federal rights in the oil rich
tidelands, Senator Morse offered the
anti-poll tax bill as an amendment
to that measure.
After Senator Morse had rejected
all pleas to withdraw the amend
ment, Majority Leader Alben W.
Barklev Of Kentucky, saved the
day for the poll-taxers by moving
to table it. The Barley motion
carried, 81 to 20.
After the motion to table his
amendment was adopted, Senator
Morse made this prophetic state
ment:
ANY agreement to consider the
anti-poll tax bill at the end Of the
session will be worthless. say that
because II Is perfectly clear that
II the poll tax legislation is to be
the last item reached on the cal
endar there will be difficulty in
keeping a quorum here.
II think IL is clear that the pro-
posal announced by the Senator
from Florida Claude Pepper) and
the Senator from Kentucky (Mr.
Barkley) is empty strategv. II may
help the other side of the aisle make
a political record on the issue but
II will never result in a vote on
the issue and think the gentlemen
know ii.
II gave the Democrats and the
Republicans their chance to vote
on 1t this afternoon and | am will
ing to let the Record speak for it.
self"
Senator Richard B. Russell, Dem
ocrat, Of Georgia, is responsible
for this bit Of information: A poll
tax Of three shillings a head was
levied by the Colonial Assembly Of
Georgia sometime between 1743 and
1850. In the reconstruction era
when most Of the members Of the
Georgia legislature were colored,
the state constitution was rewrit-
ten, but the provision requiring
payment of a poll tax as a pre-
requisite to voting was retained in
the new constitution.
The minimum wage bill was an
other measure bottled up in the
House Rules Committee. 1t would
have affected more than 1000, 600
workers who receive less than 60
cents an hour In industry. =.
Under the act fixing the salaries
Of federal district judges, recently
passed, the salary Of Judge Her
man f. Moore Of the United States
Court for the Virgin Islands will
be $4,000 year. He's a Chicago
an.
Wilson Wyatt's veterans hous-
ing program calls for 100000
houses, 100000 Of them in 1916.
The National Housing Agency
boasts that 1t authorized $40, 721
new houses and apartment units
from January Is through June %.
A nationwide survey by the Nation
al Association Of Homebuilders dis
closed that less than 10 per cent
Of them have been completed