Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1946-01-25

AAt pioSoHNcu suCn " petition our
ing the filibuster against the up.
preparation item for the wartime
FEPC and, rather than permit a
vote on cloture. southern Demo
Gratis agreed TO give the agency
$3.50 900.
After a three-hour Senate de-
bate last Friday on the motion OF
Senator John II. Overton. Demo.
crat, Of Louisiana, TO include In
the proceedings Of last Thursday
the chaplRin'S prayer, Senator Den.
mis- Chavez, Democrat, Of New
Mexico, one Of the proponents OF
tho FEPC bill. announced:
"A bipartisan Senate group
supporting this bill decided that
since the Senate took Il up by a
vote Of 30 TO II, a small minority
Of the Senate could not 10 per-
mitted 10 hold up action. To do
so would be n tTavesty on demo-
cratic processes.
This majority group will try 20
hold the Senate In session con.
tinuouSly until tho hlibuStsr IL
broken"
Opponents Of the bill also or
gRniEed last Friday TO block action
on tho bill
Al q conference Of southern Sem
RtorS, Senators Overton and Rich
ard u. Russell. Democrat, Of
Georgia. were chosen co.leaders Of
Southern Democrats. Senator
Overton said about flfteen South.
crn Senators attended the meeting.
The hlibuater last Friday was
set IN motion by Senator OVerton.
As he cuHtomRrily does, Majority
Leader Alben w, BArkley, OF Ken
lucky, asked unanimous consent
that the journal Of the proceedings
Of last Thursday be approved with
out readine.
Overton objected. insisting that
the journal DO read In ita entirety
for corrections. The clerk began
reading the journal At 1915. Al
1928 p. M. Senator William Lang
or. Republican, Of North Dakota,
moved that further reading Of the
journal be suspended. Overton
again objected, and the clerk read
on.
John Crockett, Bi-ycar-old clerk
Of the Senate, finished the reading
in an hour and half.
Overton then offered a motion
10 amend the jorunRl by including
the prayer delivered by the chap
lain on Thursday. Debate on this
motion consumed the remainder Of
the afternoon with Overt0n hold
ing the floor and refusing 20 yield
except for questions.
In orde" 10 make an observation.
Senator Willard y. Tydings, Demo
crRt, Of Maryland, who voted yea"
on the motion TO take up the
FEPC bill, framed a b-minute
statement In the form Of q series
Of questions. His Anal question
Was whether OVertOn thought II
possible TO dispose Of the FEPC
bill, even though II should be
debated for the next thirty days7"
THE answer IL no." Overt0n
replied.
During their colloquy, OvertOn
complimented Tydings on the elo-
quence and clarity Of his interroga-
tories and said that he jokinRly
asked TydingS when he heard him
vote yea" on the motion 10 take
up the bill:
ALIAS, Willard, haS Maryland Sc
coded from the Confederacy?"
In reply TO Senator Chavez In
Sistsncs that the bill be voted on
after ample debate. overt0n ad-
mittad that II the bill were put 20
a vote, II would be passed.
II was disclosed that Senator
James o. Eastland, Democrat, Of
MissisGippi, who began the fli-
buster against the FEPC bill on
Thursday, had urged the passage
by the Mississippi legislature Of a
Qualification proclamation" IL n
permanent FEPC IL established.
In a telegram 10 Fielding Wright,
lieutenant governor and president
Of the MiSGisSippi Senate. and Wal
ter Sillers, speaker Of the MisSis-
sippi House Of Representatives.,
Eastland said:
at 1.-THE FEPC bill) violates the
fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
10 the Constitution. Mississippi In
Il sovereign state. May respect
fully recommend that II the Fair
Employment Practice bill IL
enacted into the law the Mississippi
Legislators protect the sovereignty
Of Mississippi and the liberty and
freedom Of our people by the pas
sage Of a notification proclama-
ton"
The hiibuSter against the bill
was begun on Thursday after n
nOtion 10 take up the measure wna